Afghanistan: China's Plan to Mine for Copper Beneath an Ancient City Gets Thrown off by Corruption Charges

Apr 6, 2017 | Mariam Amini, CNBC
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A controversial Chinese copper mine in Afghanistan has run into complications after the executive leading the $3 billion project was expelled from the Chinese Communist Party for corruption. Shen Heting, the former general manager of the state-owned China Metallurgical Group Corporation (MCC), in 2007 signed a 30-year lease to build a open-pit copper mine in a place called Mes Aynak.