[GPSCC-chat] The Curse of Gold

[Tian Harter]

I have this Utah Phillips record where he talks about saying to a
graduating class "You have just been called America's greatest resource.
You know what these people do with their resources? RUN FOR YOUR LIVES!"

Another part of me remembers the sordid tale of lead mining in Peru.
For more information on that please visit:
http://savelaoroya.org

I'm hoping the Afghanis have better luck than the Peruvians with their
mines.

Brian Good wrote:
> 
>    Afghanistan is sitting on a trillion dollars in mineral resources--iron,
> copper, cobalt, gold, lithium.  Russian geologists mapped the riches 25
> years ago. 
> 
> 
> http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/14/world/asia/14minerals.html?pagewanted=1&emc=na
> <http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/14/world/asia/14minerals.html?pagewanted=1&emc=na>
> 

-- 
Tian
http://tian.greens.org
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