This 2010 photograph shows ancient Buddha statues inside a temple in Mes Aynak, Afghanistan, where a Chinese consortium has the rights to mine for copper.
China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) and its Afghan partner,. Watan Oil ... by dispatching state-owned energy and mining companies to secure copper.
28 May 2019 ... Mining in Afghanistan [Agnieszka Pikulicka-Wilczewska/Al Jazeera] ... Large foreign investments, such as the proposed Chinese copper...
6 Apr 2017 ... A controversial Chinese copper mine in Afghanistan has run into complications after the executive leading the $3 billion project was expelled...
In Afghanistan a fortune in copper ore lies buried beneath a trove of ancient Buddhist artifacts. ... Open Pit Mine Can Save Rather Than Destroy Artifacts ... In 2007 the Beijing-based China Metallurgical Group Corporation (MCC), leading a...
16 Apr 2019 ... Lithium and the Battle for Afghanistan's Mineral Riches .... After winning the bid for its Aynak copper mine in Logar Province, China clearly...
An agreement was signed between the Ministries of Mines and Petroleum and Information and Culture on Saturday in Kabul to protect ancient relics at Mes Aynak copper mine. ... Afghanistan By Samim Faramarz 21 JULY 2018 ... of the mine and amending the contract with China Metallurgical Group (MCC), a Chinese...
India secured a potentially lucrative foothold in Afghanistan as a consortium of ... meanwhile, kicks off a rivalry in the Afghan mining sector with China, which four ... billion concession to develop the Mes Aynak copper mine southeast of Kabul.
23 Aug 2018 ... 4000 Years of Cultural Treasure versus a $100 Billion Copper Mine ... China now wants to rewrite this agreement with the Afghan government,...
2 Apr 2013 ... Estimates of the value of minerals, including the Aynak copper deposit ... of China (MCC, which then created the Afghan entity named MJAM) to...
... of Aynak copper is underway where Metallurgical Corporation of China (MCC) ... If exploited properly, the Aynak copper mines would have positive impact on...
In 2008 MJAM-MCC a Chinese company was awarded a contract to recover the ... It is a major project for Afghanistan in terms of employment, training, revenue and ... supplementary resettlement action plan For Mes Aynak Copper Mines.
2 Dec 2016 ... ... the Taliban now claim that they want to support and even protect foreign investments in Afghanistan. A Chinese copper mining project could...
29 Dec 2009 ... A delegation from the state-owned Chinese company, China Metallurgical Group Corporation, visited the site of a copper mine in Aynak,...
Efforts are being made to resolve a stalled copper mining deal between China and Afghanistan, a decade after the US$3 billion contract was signed, according...
Will new investments by the Metallurgical Corporation of China (MCC) in the Aynak copper mine break Afghanistan out of its poverty trap? Will future.
Mes Aynak also called Mis Ainak or Mis-e-Ainak, is a site 40 km (25 mi) southeast of Kabul, Afghanistan, located in a barren region of Logar Province. Mes Aynak contains Afghanistan's largest copper deposit, as well as the ... The Afghan Mining Ministry estimates that the mine holds some six million tons of copper (5.52...
25 Apr 2018 ... Chinese plans to tap into Afghanistan's copper wealth have stalled, ... View over a part of the mining area in Mes Aynak, with camps and men...
15 Jan 2018 ... China's $3B copper mining deal in Afghanistan, the largest foreign investment in the country's history, is going nowhere. 10 years into a 30 year...
29 Nov 2017 ... A decade ago, China won the rights to develop the Aynak copper field, ... Afghanistan's mines minister, Mohammad Ibrahim Adel, promised the...
16 Dec 2016 ... The autocratic religious group is now "committed to safeguarding" China's Metallurgical Group's copper mine in Afghanistan.
16 Dec 2016 ... A promise by the Taliban to safeguard the world's second largest untapped copper deposit is being downplayed by the sitting government of...
12 Dec 2017 ... Afghanistan is known to have large deposits of copper, iron ore, gold, ... mines in the country is the Aynak copper licence, held by a Chinese...
4 Jun 2015 ... Afghanistan's Mine and Petroleum Minister Daud Shah Saba has ... China Metallurgical Group (MCC) and Jiangxi Copper want new terms.
Copper mine site as well as contribute findings on modernization theory and natural ...... For Afghanistan to produce ore, which neighbors parts of China, the...
7 Jan 2017 ... Nine years after Chinese companies took control of Mes Aynak, copper extraction has yet to start.
21 Sep 2017 ... Rampant looting of Afghanistan's medium-sized and smaller ... Moreover, the company was not experienced in copper mining outside China,...
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7 Oct 2018 ... Afghan officials have signed contracts for two major mining projects in ... the vast Mes Aynak copper project signed with China's state-run China...
Bolstering the AynAk ContrACt: AfghAnistAn's first mAjor mining deAl. 1 ..... giroA and the China metallurgical Construction Company (mCC)/jiangxi Copper...