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**Arrectiff** · 06-16-2010, 10:34 PM

The discovery of the minerals is new. The iron and copper deposits have been known for a long time but the others - all new discoveries.

At first, I thought this is what England and Czarist through USSR had been fighting over but it wasn't.

England and Russia disputes and wars in the later part of the 19th century were part of the "great game" and the stuff with the USSR was just what that was.

06-16-2010, 10:34 PM	#11
Arrectiff Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 348 Senior Member	The discovery of the minerals is new. The iron and copper deposits have been known for a long time but the others - all new discoveries. At first, I thought this is what England and Czarist through USSR had been fighting over but it wasn't. England and Russia disputes and wars in the later part of the 19th century were part of the "great game" and the stuff with the USSR was just what that was.
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