Ethiopia could be sitting on one of world's great untapped gold deposits

phys.org ^ | January 24, 2018 | by Liam Bullock, The Conversation

[Red Badger]

BEAUTIFUL!.........................Pun of the day!......................

[Red Badger]

I think the famine in Ethiopia has been over for a while, now...................

[FreedomPoster]

Given Africa, it will pay for a lot of Range Rovers, Swiss bank accounts, and homes on the Riviera.

[dsc]

And, of course, Edgar Rice Burroughs’ land of “Opar.”

[SERKIT]

Keep the Clinton Global Initiative FAR away from this news....

[pgkdan]

If there’s a way to screw it up, Todd Hoffman will find it!................

LOL...this guy could screw up a one car funeral procession. I'd like to take a razor to that ugly excuse for a beard!

[Red Badger]

Ophir-ca......Afar...........Africa?...................Yes, quite possible................

[dsc]

And unicorn ranching. Don’t forget the unicorn ranching.

[Redbob]

"Au-some potential?"

Geez, I hate cheap puns!

[Redbob]

"I say we offer them $300 billion, and they all have to move somewhere else."

Bad idea: they'd want to move to Minneapolis...

[Red Badger]

Yeah, they’re full of schist................

[Redbob]

"It's just a schist-hole"

Where is Ethiopia on this map?

[Parley Baer]

“Here comes the CLINTONS!!! A sh*thole country with GOLD they can steal! BEWARE Ethiopians!”

Precisely what I was thinking. Just think if Hillary was President or still Secretary of State. Such potential for Clinton corruption.

[dsrtsage]

Well, at least one family will get a shiny new palace, at least until the next armed insurrection that will then net some other family a shiny new palace

[JimRed]

There is undoubtedly much more world-class gold within this area than has already been discovered, pointing to a promising source of income for the government for years to come –

Given the typical behavior of governments in that region, they will prosper while the people beg for scraps or starve.

[FreedomPoster]

Good point. Noted.

[abb]

Did you say "gold?"

[Delta 21]

All those young men who used to ride around in cargo trucks setting on top of huge mounds of bagged rice, waving AK-47s are probbly looking for new work.

[Delta 21]

Heh.

[Delta 21]

Whats in it for me?