"The War is Worth Waging": Afghanistan's Vast Reserves of Minerals and Natural Gas

The War on Afghanistan is a Profit driven "Resource War".

The 2001 bombing and invasion of Afghanistan has been presented to World public opinion as a "Just War", a war directed against the Taliban and Al Qaeda, a war to eliminate "Islamic terrorism" and instate Western style democracy.

The economic dimensions of the "Global War on Terrorism" (GWOT) are rarely mentioned. The post 9/11 "counter-terrorism campaign" has served to obfuscate the real objectives of the US-NATO war.

The war on Afghanistan is part of a profit driven agenda: a war of economic conquest and plunder, "a resource war".

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US Discovers One Trillion Dollars Of Mineral Deposits in Afghanistan

A leading U.S. newspaper reports U.S. geologists have discovered nearly one trillion dollars' worth of untapped mineral deposits in Afghanistan.

The New York Times says U.S. officials believe the vast veins of iron, copper, cobalt, gold, lithium, and niobium could "fundamentally alter" the Afghan economy and perhaps the Afghan war. U.S. officials told the newspaper Afghanistan could eventually be transformed into one of the "most important mining centers in the world."

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The recent findings of a geological team in Afghanistan could lead the country into one of its most economically tumultuous yet fruitful eras. A team of American geologists and Pentagon officials who were surveying the country in search of some sort of mineral deposit found something greater than they’d imagined could be out there: Almost $1 trillion dollars in untapped minerals including iron, copper, cobalt, gold, and great quantities of lithium, an essential metal for making batteries and other tech devices.

A trillion dollars worth of untapped metal is just as important as it sounds, if not more, and the speculation is that this will be the biggest industrial and economical breakthrough in the nation’s history. It could completely transform how the country is viewed and how it interacts internationally.

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US discovers stunning mineral wealth in Afghanistan

A US survey has uncovered at least one trillion dollars in mineral deposits in Afghanistan, officials said Monday, but there are doubts as to how the war-torn and graft-prone country can manage the windfall.

The study by US geologists found that Afghanistan had reserves of valuable minerals on a much larger scale than previously believed, a Pentagon spokesman said.

The value of the minerals -- including lithium, iron, gold, niobium and cobalt -- was estimated at nearly one trillion dollars, according to the study. But that was a conservative estimate, Colonel Dave Lapan told reporters.

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Afghanistan: The Saudi Arabia of Lithium

Finally, Afghanistan could use a break. On June 13th, the U.S. announced the discovery of nearly $1 trillion in untapped mineral deposits in Afghanistan, far beyond any proven reserves. Five days later, Afghanistan’s mining minister, said that mineral deposits in his country could be worth up to three trillion dollars, triple the US estimate from earlier in the week.

“A very conservative estimate has been one trillion. Our estimation is more than that, the idea is it could be up to three trillion dollars” mining minister Waheedullah Shahrani told a news conference in Kabul.

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One trillion dollars in mineral deposits discovered in Afghanistan

The New York Times daily quotes a high-ranking source in the US Government as saying that the US experts have discovered about one trillion dollars of untapped mineral deposits in Afghanistan, specifically copper, gold, cobalt and lithium.

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Afghanistan's Potential Billions in Lithium: Why It's Important

This weekend rare and fabulous news came from Afghanistan that trillion-dollar mineral deposits have been discovered. Chief among the riches is lithium, an element central to the most popular type of rechargeable batteries used today. But what exactly is lithium and how do the batteries work?

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