Aside from oil, Afghanistan is rich in a range of mineral deposits, but so far foreign investments has been slow in coming. The first major foreign entries are two Chinese companies which are ...

The north is Afghanistan's key basin for oil and gas. Afghanistan hopes its untapped mineral deposits could help reduce its reliance on Western cash to bankroll its impoverished and aid-reliant ...

Not because of the war for oil, but rather the new war on oil ... A 2017-18 report from the U.S. Geological Survey said Afghanistan has deposits of spodumene, a lithium-bearing mineral, but ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...