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Thursday, June 24, 2010

AFGHAN MINERALS

by Bill Costley

for Bob Chute

Once gold, iron & copper were
Afghanistan’s fabled minerals;
then rare earth elements,
now niobium, lithium
for the world’s batteries;
soon: depleted uranium.


Bill Costley has served on the Steering Committee of the San Francisco Bay area chapter of the National Writers Union. He lives in Santa Clara, CA.
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