while the mountainous north contains valuable marble and limestone deposits used in construction. The China National Petroleum Corporation also pumps oil in the north, though Afghanistan has no ...

Estimates value Afghanistan’s deposits — including those whose presence ... The U.S. poured half a billion dollars into developing Afghanistan’s oil, gas and mineral industries.

Afghanistan is home to the world’s second biggest copper deposit, a crucial input in electric vehicle ... and Faryab provinces. The amount of oil reserves is estimated to be 87 million barrels. In ...

In the 1960s, Soviet geologists first reported significant lithium deposits in ... machines out of Afghanistan, it too could invest here,” he said. “The demand for oil is decreasing, but ...

The United States has discovered nearly $1 trillion in untapped mineral deposits in Afghanistan, far beyond any previously known reserves and enough to fundamentally alter the Afghan economy and ...

Afghanistan has significant potential for oil and gas, Jumrainy said ... one of the largest untapped deposits of copper globally, 40km (25 miles) southeast of Kabul. In 2008, a Chinese company ...

China has played a visible role in Afghanistan since the Taliban seized ... forward to exploiting their lithium and other mining deposits for their benefit," Shahabuddin Delawar, the Taliban's ...

Beijing has been particularly focused on exploiting Afghanistan's extensive resource wealth, from oil and gas to rare ... offerings for Chinese firms. The deposit is estimated to contain 11.5 ...

The ruling Taliban has signed a deal with a Chinese company to extract oil from northern Afghanistan’s Amu Darya basin as the radical Islamist group attempts to bolster the South Asian nation ...