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Mineral resources in Kosovo

Yes, there is coal to be had in Kosovo, but the real prize is the zinc-lead-gold-silver mining complex at Stari Trg. The "Zinc air"
battery will probably to the next decade what oil and gasoline are now, as the now perfected Electric Car becomes widely marketed. The West NEEDS that Zinc mining complex, the third largest in the world.

Do the research and you will see.
Here is one article: Exactly. How the US has used "Humanitarian issues" as an exuse is deplorable.

Dr. Jai Maharaj wrote in message ...
>THE WAR IS ABOUT THE MINES OF KOSOVO
>
>Workers World newspaper
>July 30, 1998
>By Sara Flounders
>
> --------------------------------
> Via Workers World News Service
> Reprinted from the July 30, 1998
> issue of Workers World newspaper
> --------------------------------
>
>KOSOVO - 'THE WAR IS ABOUT THE MINES'
>
>By Sara Flounders
>
>Wars are at root about economics, and the rapidly expanding war in
>Kosovo is no different. So why have millions of dollars in high-
>tech weapons suddenly become available to the so-called Kosovo
>Liberation Army by way of the U.S. and Germany?
>
[snip]
>
>Kosovo is often portrayed in the media as an isolated mountainous
>region thatís poor and without resources. It might seem, from these
>accounts, to be an area of interest only to those who live there.
>
>The New York Times, for example, has carried dozens of such
>articles by Chris Hedges in the last six months. Only once, on July
>8, did Hedges write about the real wealth of Kosovo's Stari Trg
>mining complex. It was a tip-off that something more was at stake
>in this war.
>
>Hedge's visit to the Stari Trg mining complex is an eye opener. He
>describes the glittering veins of lead, zinc, cadmium, gold and
>silver in Stari Trg.
>
>According to Hedges, "The sprawling state-owned Trepca mining
>complex, the most valuable piece of real estate in the Balkans, is
>worth at least $5 billion."
>
>According to the mineís director, Novak Bjelic, "The war in Kosovo
>is about the mines, nothing else. This is Serbiaís Kuwaitó, the heart
>of Kosovo. ... In addition to all this, Kosovo has 17 billion tons
>of coal reserves."
>
>The whole world knows and observed first hand in the war against
>Iraq to what horrendous extent the Pentagon was willing to go in
>order to guarantee control of the oil wealth of Kuwait.
>
>But the enormous mineral wealth of Kosovo is never publicly
>discussed by U.S. United Nations Ambassador Richard Holbrooke,
>President Bill Clinton or the Pentagon generals. They speak only of
>"self-determination" of the Albanian population of Kosovo. Of
>course, they never mention what U.S.-imposed "self-determination"
>means. It means colonization under the guise of "liberation," like
>what the U.S. did to Puerto Rico, Cuba and the Philippines a
>hundred years ago.
>
>An Internet search for reports on the mines of Kosovoó the Trepca
>mining complex or Stari Trgó turned up only the one article by
>Hedges and a small piece in the June 22 Wall Street Journal. All
>other mentions are in metallurgical journals.
>
>How could this vital fact be omitted from all discussion of what is
>at stake in Kosovo? It is comparable to describing Kuwait and the
>oil-rich Gulf states as barren deserts.
>
>The wealth of Kosovo is greater than the rich veins of ore in the
>mines. Hedges describes the mining complex: "The Stari Trg mine,
>with its warehouses, is ringed with smelting plants, 17 metal
>treatment sites, freight yards, railroad lines, a power plant and
>the country's largest battery plant."
>
>The labor power of millions of workers throughout socialist
>Yugoslavia built this mining complex into the powerhouse it is
>today. It was their wealth that was invested in developing the
>complex. It belongs not just to those who live in Kosovo, but to
>the workers of all Yugoslavia.
>
>The Yugoslav web site www.yu.gov describes Trepca as the
>"richest lead and zinc mines in Europe."
>
>Lignite deposits in the Kosovo mines are, according to experts,
>sufficient for the next 13 centuries. The capacity of the lead and
>zinc refineries ranks third in the world.
>
>Miners work round the clock, day and night, in six-hour shifts.
>
>According to the mine director, "In the last three years we have
>mined 2,538,124 tons of lead and zinc crude ore and produced
>286,502 tons of lead and zinc and 139,789 tons of pure lead, zinc,
>cadmium, silver and gold."
>
>Although the average person watching the news in the evening has
>never heard of Stari Trg, it has been a prize changing hands for
>two thousand years.
>
>The wealth of Stari Trg is legendary. Precious metals were mined
>there more than 2,000 years ago, first by the Greeks, then by the
>Romans.
>
>These mines were the grand prize in the Nazi occupation of the
>Balkans after Germany grabbed control from the British. The mines
>have great industrial and military importance. The Nazis used
>batteries produced there to power their U-boats. Today submarine
>batteries are still made there.
>
>Profits from these mines are helping to keep the Yugoslav
>Federation afloat. U.S. and UN sanctions imposed on Serbia and
>Montenegro, the two remaining republics of Yugoslavia, have taken
>an enormous toll.
>
>Without investment credits, loans for financing industry, imports
>and exports, the economy has been stifled. Inflation has weakened
>the currency. The mines, which once were the largest employer in
>the province, have also been affected.
>
>The most important words in Hedge's article are the description of
>the complex as "state owned." Throughout this decade, as the
>capitalist market has swept over the former socialist countries of
>Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union, socialist Yugoslavia has
>attempted to resist privatization of its industry and natural
>resources.
>
>To break this resistance, the Western imperialist countries played
>a major role in the breakup of socialist Yugoslavia.
>
>This huge complex of mines, refining, power and transportation in
>Kosovo may well be the largest uncontested piece of wealth not yet
>in the hands of the big capitalists of the U.S. or Europe.
>
>The industry, natural resources and transportation of all the
>former Soviet republics, the socialist countries of Eastern Europe,
>and the secessionist republics of Yugoslavia are now being rapidly
>privatized. No one within the region has the wealth or connections
>to finance capital to buy controlling shares of these vast state-
>owned industries. The major Western corporations are gobbling these
>industries up.
>
>While the fate of some industries is still in negotiation, the
>lending and credit conditions of the International Monetary Fund
>and the World Bank require the breakup of all state-owned
>industries. This is true for the oil and natural gas wealth in the
>Caucasus and the Caspian Sea as well as the diamond mines of
>Siberia.
>
>The decision on who will own or have controlling interest in the 22
>mines and the many processing plants of the Trepca complex will be
>made by whoever wins the armed struggle raging in Kosovo. NATO
>domination on the ground would put U.S. corporations in the best
>ownership position. Nationalist strife advances their position.
>
>Although being forced to privatize in order to survive in today's
>global market, Yugoslavia has tried to control the process and to
>propose Balkan regional development.
>
>According to the June 22 Wall Street Journal, the Yugoslav
>Federation is in negotiations to sell shares in the Trepca mining
>complex. Forced by the economic crisis, they have been negotiating
>with a Greek investor Mytilineos Holdings SA for partial ownership.
>
>The former manager of the mines, Byrhan Kavaja, who is now allied
>with the opposition to the Yugoslav government, has written to all
>corporations dealing in soft metals to tell them not to make
>agreements with the Yugoslav government. Kavaja says that once a
>new government is in power, all past decisions on ownership will be
>invalidated. The opposition will make "new agreements." Who is
>likely to be the beneficiary of these agreements?
>
>The progressive movement in the U.S. and throughout Western Europe
>must be at the forefront in explaining that the billions of dollars
>spent on the U.S./NATO occupation of the region is not in the
>interests of any of the people of the Balkans. Nor is it in the
>interests of poor and working people in the U.S. or Europe. The war
>is destroying all that was built through collective ownership and
>collaboration in the Balkans.
>
>This war will mean higher taxes and even more cuts in social
>programs in the U.S and Europe. But the billions of dollars in
>profit will go to a few wealthy stockholders in the U.S. or in
>Western Europe.
>
> - END