Afghanistan claims mineral wealth is worth $3trillion - Telegraph

India and China are expected to be particularly interested in exploiting the country's deposits of copper, iron, lithium, gold, niobium, mercury, cobalt and other minerals.

Mr Shahrani said a number of Indian firms had already expressed interest and said the American estimate of $1 trillion (£680 billion) of minerals on offer was conservative.

He said: "Our estimation is more than that ... the idea is it could be up to three trillion dollars."
Surveys have also found five new oil and gas blocks in Afghanistan, with the biggest in the Afghan-Tajik basin in the unstable province of Kunduz, he said. - Afghan minerals worth $3trn

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