Lithium & Afghanistan. <thread>
Back to the future. We were discussing this in 2010.
The reality now is the same then. The potential is interesting but super long term if ever.
Lithium isn’t rare and Afghanistan has occurrences of lithium. But so does my back garden.
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I was invited out to Afghanistan in 2010 by the USGS to see for myself. Not just lithium but copper, iron ore, and a handful of niche minerals like niobium.
Unfortunately, my old company blocked the trip on travel insurance grounds.
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Lithium brine potential in Afghanistan is in the country’s west - Herat and Ghanzi provinces.
Lithium hard rock potential is in the Hindu Kush mountain range. And elsewhere.
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What this shows us is that Afghanistan is a big country that has not been properly explored for its minerals
Relying on old Soviet records & US arial surveys from 2000s
No reasonable drilling programs
No 43101s
No detailed exploration
central Asian countries = similar story
To suggest Afghanistan’s lithium is a pot of gold for the Taliban, China or anyone else is just incorrect.
I wouldn’t have normally commented on this but it’s actually trending on Twitter
This @nytimes article outlines the the activity in #Afganisthan up to June 2010. Nothing of significance has changed since.
Also shows how sporadic any form of exploration has been.
nytimes.com/2010/06/14/wor…
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