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If you want to really know why multinational companies are hovering over Greece like greedy vultures, then you have to read this story? In February 1998, reports flooded the news that a large concentration of radon was discovered in a market area of Thesprotia. Radon is a radioactive element and as experts claim it is also an indication of the existence of uranium. When this was announced, scientists began exploring the possibilities and discovered vast amounts in the areas of the Panagaio Mountain, Kavala, and Olympiada in Halkidiki. That is when Skopje friendly and multi-billionaire George Soros moved in with his gold mining company and began exploiting the subsoil for gold (and uranium).
The news forced many geologists and scientists to begin investigating other possible deposits and they did. In fact a confidential report which was leaked to the financial daily "Ependitis" (on 23/2/96) noted the results of the research conducted by the Hellenic Institute of Geology and Mineral Exploration (IGME). In this report, it was announced that Greece has immeasurable wealth in deposits of uranium and other rare metals estimated at some 100 trillion drachmas!
Yes… you heard correctly… 100 trillion!
Meaning almost 300 BILLION Euros in 1998 numbers... imagine what their worth is today!
The survey, which was signed by seven distinguished Greek geologists and/or scientists refers to the uranium deposits which they claim mount to some 300 million tonnes. It also refers to other rare minerals such as rutile, loutesio and lanthanum, which have very specific uses in the manufacturing of missile systems. The article gives specific reference to deposits in the area of Kavala.
Uranium, from what the experts claimed, is (and always has been) a rare commodity and very expensive since it is mainly used for the production of satellites and rocket systems. In the report, they especially noted that the deposit in northern Greece might turn out to be the LARGEST uranium deposit in the world.
If you only understand numbers, then be advised that the value of enriched uranium in 1998 was estimated at approximately 20.000 a gram…. Yes you heard correctly my friends. Twenty plus years later it is more than certain that this price has more than tripled.
The same report also made reference to other rare minerals such as:
- 1. Aluminum - France has reduced its production of aluminum and Greece is now viewed as the largest producer of aluminum in Europe. It is the most abundant metallic element, and the third most abundant of all elements in the Earth’s crust, making up 8% of the crust by weight. Only silicon and oxygen are more plentiful.
- 2. Bauxite - Greece is the largest producing European Union country of Bauxite. This mineral is used in the production of aircraft, electrical equipment, steel structures, etc. Bauxite is the name for a mixture of similar minerals that contain hydrated aluminum oxides. These minerals are gibbsite (Al(OH)), diaspore (AlO(OH)), and boehmite (AlO(OH)). Because it is a mixture of minerals, bauxite itself is a rock, not a mineral. Bauxite is reddish-brown, white, tan, and tan-yellow. It is dull to earthy in lustre and can look like clay or soil. Bauxite forms when silica in aluminum-bearing rocks (that is, rocks with a high content of the mineral feldspar) is washed away (leached). This weathering process occurs in tropical and subtropical weathering climates.
- 3. Lignite - Lignite constitutes the most abundant type of coal in Greece and the most important of the Greek lignite deposits formed in shallow lakes and marshes of closed mountain basins (such as Ptolemais, Florina, Drama in Macedonia, northern Greece and Megalopolis in the Peloponnese, southern Greece). The lignite reserves are currently estimated at 6750 Mt, excluding the 4300 Mm of ‘Phillipi’ peat in Macedonia. The Kozani-Ptolemais, Amynteo, Florina basins in Macedonia contain the largest amounts (about 64%) of the nation’s coal resources. These lignites, which are all already being exploited, have a very low calorific value and high ash and low sulphur contents. The lignite production for 1992 was over 54 Mt. the greatest centres of lignite production are in Macedonia, at the opencast mines of Ptolemais and Amynteo, and in Peloponnese, at the opencast mine of Megalopolis. The vast majority (98%) of the extracted lignite is used for electricity generation and feeds power plants which have a total capacity of 4533 MW. The lignite-based power plants account for more than 720f the total electricity generation of the country. Today, through detailed geological exploration and evaluation, efforts are being made to locate and develop other lignite deposits throughout Greece
- 4. Manganese - Greece is the only country in the European Union contained in underground deposits of manganese. The main deposits are found in the county Dramas. There was no reference to its use or estimated worth. As a free element, manganese is a metal with important industrial metal alloy uses, particularly in stainless steels
- 5. Nikel: Greece is the only country in the European Union with substantial deposits of nikel in the subsoil. Nickel, iron and cobalt are the only three elements known to be ferro-magnetic and of the three, nickel is the least magnetic. When all three ferro-magnetic metals are alloyed together, an unusually strong magnet is created. This alloy conducts heat and electricity fairly well, but is not as good a conductor as pure silver or copper
- 6. Magnesite: The magnesite exported from Greece, covers almost 46% of total production in Western Europe. Uses include: refractory bricks, cement, etc.
- 7. Chromite: Greece is the only EU country that contains significant amounts of exploitable chromite. The most important deposits are located near Mt Kozani. This mineral is mainly used to produce stainless chalyva. Chromite is an iron chromium oxide mineral and the only ore of chromium metal. It is a mineral found in ultrabaisc rocks such as peridotite. It is also found in various metamorphic rocks derived from the alteration of ultrabasic rocks. It is a high temperature mineral often found in the lower parts of magma bodies from the fractional crystallization process
- 8. Petroleum - Based on satellite maps, it is now an undisputed fact that there are rich deposits of oil in the Greek area east of the island of Thassos, in the Gulf of Thessaloniki, in the Dodecanese and in particular in the vicinity of Imia, in Zakynthos and Florina. Also there is suspicion that the area under Imia and until the far east coast of Crete is one of the largest oil deposits found in the 21st century.
- 9. Natural Gas – Greece has tremendous amounts of natural gas reserves. The most of which are estimated to be in the area between Greece and Cyprus, or the island of Kastelorizo…. Where George Papandreou so graciously announced our entrance into the Troika. The location of the announcement was not by chance, since it was "surrender" to their demands and interests -as far as natural gas and oil- are concerned. There are also vast deposits under Crete, especially near the island of Gavdos, (the sovereighnty of which is also disputed by Turkey). Also, in an earlier report on hellasfrappe Foskolos had said that the two areas that in his professional opinion have significant amount of deposits are nine mud volcanoes southeast of Crete, in the Greek Herodotus basin. More precisely, the mud volcanoes in this area contain high amounts of hydrocarbon reserves, primarily natural gas, of approximately 1.5 trillion cubic meters! (Click here for that story) This is comparable with what has been found in the Nile Delta, the Caspian Sea (deposit Shah Deniz), Norway and elsewhere. In his expert opinion, the south eastern basin of Herodotus in Crete has reserves that surpass two trillion cubic meter mark. This is a vast amount and can only be compared to what was discovered in the Nile Delta (by SHELL, BP) . He says the sediments are of the same origin and geological formations are very similar. In all so far, it is estimated that there are 3.5 trillion cubic meters of gas located there, which can be equaled to 20-22 billion barrels of oil! The benefits for Greece are obvious. Foskolos believes that the exploitation of these deposits will create a total of 300,000 jobs. At least 100,000 in the primary sector and 200,000 jobs in the secondary sector, while all revenue can be reaped by the Greek state in 25 years amounts to 437 billion US and this is not counting the profits from the pipeline that will transport the natural gas to Europe ( at a length of 1000 km at a cost of approximately $ 20,000 / km, or 25 billion US dollars.) Other experts agree with Foskolos as well. A separate report on the Chaniotika nea site said that Professor Giannis Makris says that there are two potential hydrocarbon reserves southwest of Crete, where sediment thickness frin 10 to 12 kilometers, and there are hydrocarbon reserves in Western Crete where there are 3 fields of mud volcanoes..
In a book by Dimitiri Mbatsi (1947) titled the "Heavy industry of Greece" we learn that Greece is one of the richest nations in the world in radon, aluminum, bauxite, manganese, magnesium, nickel, red mercury and lanthanum. We also learn that we have massive amounts of uranium and coal (it is known that war in Kosovo was for lignites). It also states that there are rich deposits of oil and osmium, natural gas and that only methane reserves that exist south of Crete sufficient to initiate ten thousand years the cars on the planet. The book also speaks of the Cooper Agreement... What is the Cooper Agreement? click here to find out.
A while back, former Ambassador to Greece Nicholas Burns said on a live broadcast on MEGA tv that indeed there is oil in the Aegean and that this essentially creates tension between Greece and Turkey. So he basically left it to be understood that if we ever attempted to exploit and/or explore our natural reserves then Ankara would suddenly declare a casus belli against our country? (Does this mean they work together? Hhmmmmm......)
The presence of oil and gas in the Greek market was also confirmed and Hillary Clinton in an interview on the show Papahelas "Neoi Fakelloi" as well. Click here for that story.
Now do you understand why we were suddenly thrown into the arms of the Troika?
Why the Troika is continuously piling our country with so much debt?
And why Turkey threatens us with war every time we try to approach Imia, and why it does not recognize half of the islands in the Greek Aegean? Click here to find out how they tied and gagged Greece on all fronts to feed their greed.
As for Europe... After decades of neglect and indifference, the supply, demand and consumption effects of energy are now at the forefront of the global policy agenda. And as the European Union’s member states pursue economic and political integration, the need for an integrated EU energy policy is increasingly apparent. Click here to read article
Do you really and honestly still believe we had it coming....
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