Aynak copper mine

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Shen Heting, the former general manager of the state-owned China Metallurgical Group Corporation (MCC), in signed a year lease to build a Author: Mariam Amini.

Mes Aynak mine is said to be the second largest copper ore body in the world, with the deposit estimated to contain million metric tons of high-grade copper ore. The contract awarded to MJAM. What is Aynak.

Aynak is a large undeveloped copper resource, located about 40 km southeast of Kabul in Afghanistan’s Logar province. After a competitive bidding process, the government of Afghanistan in awarded a year lease to the Metallurgical Corporation of China (MCC, which then created the Afghan entity named MJAM) to explore the resource and submit a bankable feasibility study.

While other, smaller mineral resources are being rampantly looted, Afghanistan’s large Aynak copper deposit—worth upward $50 billion—has languished unexploited despite being contracted to a Chinese consortium nearly a decade ago.

This Peace Brief seeks to understand what went wrong and explores options for breaking out of the current impasse. Mes Aynak (Pashto/Persian: مس عينک, meaning "little source of copper"), also called Mis Ainak or Mis-e-Ainak, is a site Aynak copper mine book km (25 mi) southeast of Kabul, Afghanistan, located in a barren region of Logar Aynak contains Afghanistan's largest copper deposit, as well as the remains of an ancient settlement with over Buddha statues, stupas and a 40 ha ( acres) monastery Country: Afghanistan.

― The Aynak copper deposit is exceptional in world perspective: it represents the 2nd largest unexploited deposit in the world. ― With the Aynak deposit alone, Afghanistan could become one of the world’s top 15 copper producers;File Size: 1MB. When documentary filmmaker Brent Huffman first visited the Buddhist archaeological site of Mes Aynak in eastern Afghanistan in Junehe was awed by the 2,year-old city, how it Author: Tom Legro.

Mes Aynak, a magnificent Buddhist city, is the most important archaeological discovery in a generation. But it is sitting on a vast copper deposit and is about to be destroyed.

William Dalrymple. The Mes Aynak copper mine is north of Kabul and is protected by a security unit under the Afghan Ministry of Interior. The Taliban killed eight Afghan workers near Mes Aynak in June Author: Mariam Amini. Southern Aynak: Another field survey of southern Aynak Mine in estimated the existence of 50 million tonnes of copper ore with to percent of copper.

Western Aynak: The western Aynak mine has around 50 million tonnes of copper ore containing and percent of copper. Mes Aynak Summit Logar Province, Afghanistan, Copper Mine (Aynak).

Afghanistan signed its first big mining contract for copper mine exploitation at Aynak with a Chinese joint venture, China Metallurgical Group Corporation and Jiangxi Copper called MCC‐JCL‐JCL Aynak Minerals on The company committed to investing US$ billion over five years   The company wanted to renege on building a railway, power plant and processing factory, as stipulated in its deal to mine at Mes Aynak, site of one of the world's biggest copper deposits, the.

The Aynak project is located within a mountain basin 35km SE of Kabul in Afghanistan at elevations of 2, masl. The civil war in Afghanistan in halted exploration in the Aynak area until a joint venture between Metallurgical Corporation of China (MCC) and Jiangxi Copper Group acquired the mine in November The Aynak Copper Mine was first discovered inand mining was initiated by the Metallurgical Company of China in However, its use has been suspended several times and the mine has never been fully exploited due to political unrest and terrorism, among other issues, in Afghanistan.

Afghanistan has been recognized as one of the most fragile, conflict-affected, and landlocked countries Author: Yanzhe Zhang, Xiao Yu, Jian Zhang, Bowen Zou. Executive summary for the Aynak copper mine (English) Abstract. The current project involves a two-phase development of the Aynak copper mine including a processing plant with a capacity of 30 ktpd of ore in phase one and 60 ktpd in phase two.

Chinese company and Taliban battle over Afghanistan’s underground riches. Massive copper mine at Mes Aynak in Logar province could destroy antiquities site and displace villagers.

J AM ET. by Ben Piven @benpiven. The wind sweeps over the barren hillsides of Logar province just 25 miles southeast of Kabul, blowing dust over. Mines on Your Mind - The Mes Aynak Copper Mine In Logar province, Afghanistan, approximately 25 miles south of Kabul lays Mes Aynak, an ancient Buddhist city doomed to vanish forever under a project touted as a magic bullet for the war torn economy of Afghanistan.

The ruins of Mes Aynak straddle a copper deposit so rich that many of the rocks are brilliant green with oxidised ore from a seam of metal first exploited 5, years ago.

Investing in Least Developed Countries: The Aynak Mine Project. Roosevelt Barfield. MSA, Central Michigan University, BA, University of Kansas, Doctoral Study Submitted in Partial Fulfillment. of the Requirements for the Degree of. Doctor of Business Administration.

Walden University. May. Aynak is a copper resource in Afghanistan’s Logar province, located southeast of Kabul. One of the largest copper deposits in the world, Aynak copper is trumpeted as a future bedrock of Afghanistan’s new economy.

Aynak requires $ billion to develop the mine and another $ billion to build ancillary infrastructure.Aynak is a world-class copper deposit which, but for the upheavals of the last 25 years in Afghanistan, would surely have become an operating mine.

Its main features are: world-class stratabound ore deposit ( Mt at % Cu). The Aynak copper mine is the largest copper mine in Afghanistan and is said to be the second largest copper mine in the world. Economic experts say Afghanistan's valuable mineral deposits could be a crucial part of the country's future economic growth and sustainability.