China is now operating the former United States military facility at Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan, The Telegraph reports ...

One good thing the US Geological Survey did in the 20 years US forces were in Afghanistan is to carry out a large-scale survey of almost the whole of Afghanistan and prepare a map of the deposits of ...

Amid growing geopolitical tensions and a rapidly changing global energy landscape, one of the most surprising revelations in ...

Afghanistan is home to the world’s second biggest copper deposit, a crucial input in electric vehicle batteries and semiconductors. A $3 billion deal was signed in 2008, giving the state-owned MCC a ...

Kazakhstan and Afghanistan are strengthening economic ties, with plans to jointly explore Afghan mineral deposits. A technical commission will be formed, and Kazakh specialists will assess potential ...

Expressing satisfaction with the significant progress in developing relations in the industrial sphere over the past year, Zhumangarin thanked the Afghan side for its support in organizing the field ...

Today, Afghanistan is estimated to hold nearly $1 trillion worth of mineral reserves. This includes 60 million tons of copper, 183 million tons of aluminum and 2.2 billion tons of iron ore.

This article provides a short survey, for both countries, of the mineral deposits, current mining production, and China’s efforts to increase its influence. Afghanistan’s mineral resources Afghanistan ...

Following the US withdrawal from Afghanistan, there was considerable speculation and concern, especially in Western capitals, that China would take advantage of the power vacuum created by the US ...

Chinese engineers and the Taliban government officially started work on a massive project in Afghanistan to mine the world's second-largest deposit of copper. At the July 24 event at Mes Aynak ...

Afghanistan to share promising deposit maps with Kazakhstan on oil and mines Deputy Prime Minister of Kazakhstan, Serik Zhumangarin, and Afghanistan's Minister of Oil and Mines, Shahabuddin Delavar, ...

Bilal Karimi pledged to spare no effort in attracting Chinese investors. Delawar considered contracts in copper mines, the Amu Darya oil field, gold sites, and the second phase of the Mes-e-Aynak ...