{"id":6131,"date":"2010-06-24T11:39:04","date_gmt":"2010-06-24T16:39:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/?p=6131"},"modified":"2011-01-20T14:04:11","modified_gmt":"2011-01-20T19:04:11","slug":"afghanistans-mineral-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/2010\/06\/24\/afghanistans-mineral-future\/","title":{"rendered":"Afghanistan&#8217;s mineral future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-6137\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/files\/2010\/06\/mining-equipment-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"mining equipment\" width=\"120\" height=\"120\" \/>Word that war-torn Afghanistan has at least $1 trillion in <a title=\"untapped\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/06\/14\/world\/asia\/14minerals.html\" target=\"_blank\">untapped<\/a> mineral deposits already has that country&#8217;s officials scrambling to start the process of <a title=\"opening up\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/06\/18\/world\/asia\/18afghan.html?scp=1&amp;sq=afghanistan%20minerals&amp;st=cse\" target=\"_blank\">opening up <\/a>the nation&#8217;s reserves to international investors.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/anthrop\/\">Anthropology<\/a> Professor <a title=\"Thomas Barfield\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/anthrop\/people\/faculty\/t-barfield\/\" target=\"_blank\">Thomas Barfield<\/a>, who also is president of the <a title=\"American Institute of Afghanistan Studies\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/aias\/\" target=\"_blank\">American Institute of Afghanistan Studies<\/a>, says cashing in on the potential will take significant infrastructure building which will require security and likely involve investment from China.\u00a0 Barfield discusses the prospects and pit fields of Afghanistan&#8217;s mining future in a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/today\/\">BU Today<\/a> <a title=\"interview\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/today\/node\/11165\" target=\"_blank\">interview<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;The work needed to put in the infrastructure and the side effects &#8212; better transportation systems, electricity, jobs for people &#8212; that&#8217;s going to have an enormous impact well before we get to the question of payment of royalties.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Contact Thomas Barfield, 617-353-2195, <a href=\"mailto:barfield@bu.edu\">barfield@bu.edu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Word that war-torn Afghanistan has at least $1 trillion in untapped mineral deposits already has that country&#8217;s officials scrambling to start the process of opening up the nation&#8217;s reserves to international investors.\u00a0 Anthropology Professor Thomas Barfield, who also is president of the American Institute of Afghanistan Studies, says cashing in on the potential will take [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":114,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4491],"tags":[116,3213,3159,3241,1851,176,3220,1624,2222,3221,3214,3239,1865,3240],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6131"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/114"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6131"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6131\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6175,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6131\/revisions\/6175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}