http://www.thelmagazine.com/TheMeasure/archives/2010/06/14/untold-mineral-riches-discovered-in-afghanistan-which-can-only-end-well Comments On: Untold Mineral Riches Discovered in Afghanistan, Which Can Only End Well by Mark Asch en-us Copyright 2013 The L Magazine. All rights reserved. This RSS file is offered to individuals, The L Magazine readers, and non-commercial organizations only. Any commercial websites wishing to use this RSS file, please contact The L Magazine. editor@thelmagazine.com (The L Magazine Webmaster) Tue, 21 May 2013 00:00:01 -0400 Tue, 21 May 2013 10:15:00 -0400 Foundation http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss
Also very suspect, however, is the great 'surprise' with which they now report these findings. If Michelangelo achieved his ultramarine blues using difficultly imported lapis lazuli extracted from Afghan mines half a millennium ago, and if Marco Polo could observe that those very same mountains contain "mines of silver, copper and lead" in the 13th century,* does it not seem a bit strange that geologists (or geologists-cum-generals, etc.) waited this long to say, "in fact, holy shit, there's quite a lot of this stuff."

Well, it's quite convenient, anyway.
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