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<br>   Afghanistan is sitting on a trillion dollars in mineral resources--iron, <br>copper, cobalt, gold, lithium.  Russian geologists mapped the riches 25 <br>years ago.  <br><br>  <meta http-equiv="CONTENT-TYPE" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><title></title><meta name="GENERATOR" content="OpenOffice.org 3.2  (Win32)"><style type="text/css">
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><a href="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</a></p>
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