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	For the geologists who are now scouring some of the most remote stretches of Afghanistan to complete the technical studies necessary before the international bidding process is begun, there is a growing sense that they arein the midst of one of the great discoveries of their careers.		For the geologists who are now scouring some of the most remote stretches of Afghanistan to complete the technical studies necessary before the international bidding process is begun, there is a growing sense that they arein the midst of one of the great discoveries of their careers.
	“On the ground,it’s very, very, promising,” Mr. Medlin said. “Actually, it’s pretty amazing.”		“On the ground,it’s very, very, promising,” Mr. Medlin said. “Actually, it’s pretty amazing.”
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 Instead ofbringing peace, the newfound mineral wealth could lead the [[Taliban]] to battle even more fiercely to regain control of the country.
-Thecorruption that is already rampant in the Karzai government could also beamplified by the new wealth, particularly if a handful of well-connectedoligarchs, some with personal ties to the president, gain control of theresources. Just last year, Afghanistan’s minister of mines was accused byAmerican officials of accepting a $30 million bribe to award China the rightsto develop its copper mine. The minister has since been replaced.
+The corruption that is already rampant in the Karzai government could also be amplified by the new wealth, particularly if a handful of well-connected oligarchs, some with personal ties to the president, gain control of the resources. Just last year, Afghanistan’s minister of mines was accused by American officials of accepting a $30 million bribe to award China the rights to develop its copper mine. The minister has since been replaced.
 Endlessfights could erupt between the central government in Kabul and provincial andtribal leaders in mineral-rich districts. Afghanistan has a national mininglaw, written with the help of advisers from the [[World Bank]],but it has never faced a serious challenge.
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 In 2004,American geologists, sent to Afghanistan as part of a broader reconstructioneffort, stumbled across an intriguing series of old charts and data at thelibrary of the Afghan Geological Survey in Kabul that hinted at major mineraldeposits in the country. They soon learned that the data had been collected bySoviet mining experts during the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan in the 1980s,but cast aside when the Soviets withdrew in 1989.
 During thechaos of the 1990s, when Afghanistan was mired in civil war and later ruled bythe Taliban, a small group of Afghan geologists protected the charts by takingthem home, and returned them to the Geological Survey’s library only after theAmerican invasion and the ouster of the Taliban in 2001.

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 So far, thebiggest mineral deposits discovered are of iron and copper, and the quantitiesare large enough to make Afghanistan a major world producer of both, UnitedStates officials said. Other finds include large deposits of niobium, a softmetal used in producing superconducting steel, rare earth elements and largegold deposits in Pashtun areas of southern Afghanistan.
-Just thismonth, American geologists working with the Pentagon team have been conductingground surveys on dry salt lakes in western Afghanistan where they believethere are large deposits of lithium. Pentagon officials said that their initialanalysis at one location in Ghazni Province showed the potential for lithiumdeposits as large of those of Bolivia, which now has the world’s largest knownlithium reserves.
+Just this month, American geologists working with the Pentagon team have been conducting ground surveys on dry salt lakes in western Afghanistan where they believe there are large deposits of lithium. Pentagon officials said that their initial analysis at one location in Ghazni Province showed the potential for lithium deposits as large of those of Bolivia, which now has the world’s largest known lithium reserves.
-For thegeologists who are now scouring some of the most remote stretches of Afghanistan to complete the technical studies necessary before theinternational bidding process is begun, there is a growing sense that they arein the midst of one of the great discoveries of their careers.
+For the geologists who are now scouring some of the most remote stretches of Afghanistan to complete the technical studies necessary before the international bidding process is begun, there is a growing sense that they arein the midst of one of the great discoveries of their careers.
 “On the ground,it’s very, very, promising,” Mr. Medlin said. “Actually, it’s pretty amazing.”