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To: Metacomet who wrote (24199)	10/16/2007 5:34:42 PM
From: spiral3	Respond to of 218843

Let some of the mineral wealth that exists in that region have strategic value and Tibet could well become of "vital" national importance, same as Iraq. Exactly Metacomet, thank you for elucidating that important point. The unmentionable has mineral resources that are hardly inconsequential. In terms of "vital", just about all Chinese water, comes from unmentionable rivers. Indeed Tibet's mineral wealth seems to now justify the alluring traditional Chinese name for central Tibet - Xizang, roughly translating to 'Western Treasure House'. http://tew.org/archived/rail.treasure.html Here are a few more dots…whether they can be connected or not depends on one’s disposition I guess, in one way or another. Start quotes >> China mines Tibet's rich resources: money.cnn.com …"Lack of resources has been a bottleneck for the economy," Meng Xianlai, director of the China Geological Survey, said in the statements. The discoveries … "will alleviate the mounting resources pressure China is facing."…In fact, if proven, the new reserves make Tibet one of the richest regions in China's territory and could shift the country's reliance on imports of copper and iron altogether, affecting international commodity markets way beyond China. Altogether Tibet is now said to hold as much as 40 million tons of copper - one third of China's total - 40 million tons of lead and zinc, and more than a billion tons of high-grade iron.…While transportation development continues - a fresh set of satellite images on Google shows a large increase in road construction branching off the new railway route - education and health care spending in Tibet continue to lag far behind the rest of China, provoking the ire of human rights advocates.…Last March China announced - among the national priorities listed in its 11th Ten-Year Plan - an extension of the railway from its present terminal in Lhasa to the western city of Shigatze, and beyond...What's there? According to the Geological Survey's hopeful Zhang, "super-large" crude oil and gas reserves in Tibet's far-western Qiangtang Basin, as well as large quantities of oil shale deposits in areas west of the new train line. And from...Environmental Degradation in the Tibetan Autonomous Region. american.edu ...In 1949 there was 221,800 square kilometers of forest. By 1985 the forested area was reduced by nearly half, to 134,000 square kilometers.(19) It is reported that $54 billion in timber was removed during that time.(20)...One amazing fact is the ninety per cent of TAR’s river run-off flows down across its borders out of Tibet, subsequently only 1% of this is used within Tibet.(27) As touched on earlier, due to the high levels of deforestation many of Tibet's rivers have developed extremely high sediment rates: The Machu (Huang Ho, or Yellow River), the Tsangpo (Brahmaputra), the Drichu (Yangtze), and the Senge Khabab (Indus) rank among the five most heavily-silted rivers in the world.(28) These rivers irrigate nearly 47% of the earth’s population, they stretch from the Machu basin in the east to the Senge Khabab to the west.(29)...between 2000 and 2005 $22.3 billion of minerals were prospected from Tibet. Tibet has a dynamic selection of minerals and ranked first in China for 13 categories of minerals in terms of net output. These minerals include: copper, chromium, boron, sulphur, magnesite, corundum and muscovite....Nearly half of China's 15 key mineral reserves are expected to be depleted within he next ten years and major non-ferrous minerals are for all practical spent, China is rapidly moving in on Tibet in pursuit of minerals.(33) << End quotes