Afghanistan has become the first country to map its natural mineral resources using an advanced remote sensing technique known as hyperspectral imaging. The mapping, a collaborative effort between ...

Mapping Afghanistan’s untapped natural resources. Afghanistan is believed to hold more than $1 trillion worth of mineral resources and metals but faces many challenges in tapping them.

The map comprises more than 800 million data points corresponding to an area of 440,000 sq km, some 70% of the country. Afghanistan is known to have vast reserves of oil, gas, copper, cobalt, gold ...

Afghanistan, often dismissed in ... According to The New York Times, the US Geological Survey flew sorties to map Afghanistan's mineral resources in 2007, ...

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The surveys verified all the major Soviet finds. Afghanistan may hold 60 million tons of copper, 2.2 billion tons of iron ore, 1.4 million tons of rare earth elements such as lanthanum, cerium and ...

For archaeologists Afghanistan, rich in ancient treasures and once a key stop on the legendary silk road, is an "open-air museum", albeit one ravaged by war and plagued by looters. After 30 years ...

The map comprises more than 800 million data points corresponding to an area of 440,000 sq km, some 70% of the country. Afghanistan is known to have vast reserves of oil, gas, copper, cobalt, gold ...