Wednesday, December 30, 2009

NYT: China, Willing to Spend, Wins

http://mobile.nytimes.com/article?a=521074&f=110

That exploration - a detailed overflight of much of the country by American surveyors in middecade - showed Afghanistan to be far richer in oil, natural gas, iron, copper and coal than anyone had imagined. Aynak, in particular, was judged a world-class copper deposit, not just huge but of unusually rich quality, and the government chose it as the first major mineral concession to be auctioned to developers.

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