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Re:U.S. Discovers Est. $1 Trillion of Minerals in Afghanistan by eru on Monday June 14, 2010 @07:18AM (#1429354)
> The only country which has managed to avoid this situation is Norway.

And perhaps Britain? But that was before any country had any industrial sector at all, and the Britons used their coal and iron ore to start the original industrial revolution.

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Re:U.S. Discovers Est. $1 Trillion of Minerals in Afghanistan by Retric on Monday June 14, 2010 @12:34PM (#1430127)
The USA also had/has massive natural resources reserves relative to its population size. Coal, Oil, Natural Gas, Gold, Helium, etc.
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Re:U.S. Discovers Est. $1 Trillion of Minerals in Afghanistan by eru on Monday June 14, 2010 @01:00PM (#1430217)
And all the rivers run in the right direction. In contrast to, say, Russia's rivers which mostly run into ice seas or the inland water bodies.
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