Minerals in Afghanistan
Увидел в ленте (avrom_caucasus, kornelij) ссылки на интересную статью в NYT: U.S. Identifies Vast Mineral Riches in Afghanistan
In 2004, American geologists, sent to Afghanistan as part of a broader reconstruction effort, stumbled across an intriguing series of old charts and data at the library of the Afghan Geological Survey in Kabul that hinted at major mineral deposits in the country. They soon learned that the data had been collected by Soviet mining experts during the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan in the 1980s, but cast aside when the Soviets withdrew in 1989.
During the chaos of the 1990s, when Afghanistan was mired in civil war and later ruled by the Taliban, a small group of Afghan geologists protected the charts by taking them home, and returned them to the Geological Survey’s library only after the American invasion and the ouster of the Taliban in 2001.
В действительности исследования советских геологов начались раньше. Здесь можно скачать геологическую каоту Афганистана (pdf), подготовлееую советскими специалистами в 70-х.: Geological map of Afghanistan
Cоветские геологи Г. Еременко (слева) и Л. Россовский - Афганистан, долина р. Дараи-Пич, 1975 г.
In 2004, American geologists, sent to Afghanistan as part of a broader reconstruction effort, stumbled across an intriguing series of old charts and data at the library of the Afghan Geological Survey in Kabul that hinted at major mineral deposits in the country. They soon learned that the data had been collected by Soviet mining experts during the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan in the 1980s, but cast aside when the Soviets withdrew in 1989.
During the chaos of the 1990s, when Afghanistan was mired in civil war and later ruled by the Taliban, a small group of Afghan geologists protected the charts by taking them home, and returned them to the Geological Survey’s library only after the American invasion and the ouster of the Taliban in 2001.
В действительности исследования советских геологов начались раньше. Здесь можно скачать геологическую каоту Афганистана (pdf), подготовлееую советскими специалистами в 70-х.: Geological map of Afghanistan
Cоветские геологи Г. Еременко (слева) и Л. Россовский - Афганистан, долина р. Дараи-Пич, 1975 г.
