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The world has done just fine so far without the production of Afghanistan's rare minerals

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In Reply to: RE: Control posted by genungo on September 20, 2014 at 17:16:57

Our enemies, once they gain control of Afghanistan, and make no mistake about it, they will gain control, will either mine and market the minerals, meaning the supply will increase, thus driving down prices of existing rare minerals, or they won't mine it and the status quo, vis a vis these rare minerals, will remain unchanged. N'est-ce pas?
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RE: The world has done just fine so far without the production of Afghanistan's rare minerals - pictureguy 20:32:04 09/20/14 (3)
OR they could only mine so much, to drive up world prices for these vital commodities.

China, which has large deposits of the 'Rare Earth' elements follows this strategy.

The article I link'd is 3 years old. I'm sure some things have changed since its publication:
Too much is never enough
- http://www.smartplanet.com/blog/business-brains/largest-rare (Open in New Window)
- Unless Chinese production is cut back, any volume they supply adds to the world supply - Road Warrior 00:22:41 09/21/14 (2)
  thereby, if demand stays constant, driving down prices either a little or a lot (depending on price elasticity relating to supply changes, of which, in the case of rare minerals, I have zero, or possibly less, knowledge of).
  
  I've written worse sentences, just not tonite. Hopefully my point, such as it was, wasn't obscured by my Sudzian writing.
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  - RE: Unless Chinese production is cut back, any volume they supply adds to the world supply - pictureguy 01:36:25 09/21/14 (1)
    Even if demand increased ONLY 2% annually, that would result in a doubling of annual demand in only 36 years.
    All mineral resources are finite in one sense or another.
    
    Population is the same way. This is exponential growth at its finest.
    
    Now, people have 'expectations'. When I was in Italy, even fairly conservative and non-wealthy towns sported about 8 cell phones per 10 persons. Or so it seemed.
    
    Our beloved stereos and ALL our other hi-tech goodies are very resource intensive. You simply would not believe what it takes to manufacture semiconductors, for example.
    
    You wouldn't believe what is going on in CHILE, for the sake of Lithium Batteries.
    
    'The Limits to Growth' are approaching rapidly. And, as it turns out, it simply doesn't matter if the 'wall' is climate, resources, food. population, potable water, or alien invasion. (UFOs, not the guys from over 'there').
    Too much is never enough
    - http://www.lithiummine.com/lithium-mining-in-chile (Open in New Window)
    - Exactly... - genungo 09:21:16 09/21/14 (0)
      Too much means never enough.
RE: The world has done just fine so far without the production of Afghanistan's rare minerals - genungo 19:43:14 09/20/14 (1)
The world is changing and growing pretty quickly, and in many ways it's growing differently than in times past. We'll just have to wait and see how things pan out over there, I guess.
- Yup, you speak truth ^ - Road Warrior 20:02:10 09/20/14 (0)
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