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Afghan mineral wealth attracts competitors -Asad Mirza

-MuslimMirror.com

Afghanistan’s mineral wealth might be able to help the Taliban to bankroll its developmental plans.

Even when the American occupation of Afghanistan was in full steam and apart from the fighting there were mainly reports of the on-going fighting, yet there were secret reports, which spoke of the vast mineral wealth which Afghanistan possesses. There were further reports, which reported questioningly the Americans taking planeloads of soil from various regions of Afghanistan to get them analysed in their country. Yet, few believed those reports.

But now new findings are emerging which say that those reports might be true to a certain extent. Afghanistan, which is one of the world’s poorest countries at present, contains huge riches in the shape of mineral deposits of gold, precious stones, coal, oil and gas, lithium, and rare-earth minerals.

Afghanistan’s mineral wealth

A decade back some US geologists had calculated the mineral reserves in Afghanistan to be in excess of $1 trillion, which must have increased many fold by now, as it comprises many rare earth elements. 
Technological advances in the West and china both depend to a large extent on possessing these rare earth minerals as many new energy alternatives are based on their steady supply.

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