“That’s why they’re going to Afghanistan. They need to secure as much as they can.” Workers gather scrap metal for steel production at a Chinese-owned steel mill in Kabul. The first ...

Most of the international focus, however, is on Afghanistan’s other metal deposits, many of which are crucial to emerging technologies. These include cobalt, lithium and niobium, used in ...

According to the UNODC Afghanistan Opium Survey 2019, opium harvesting provided the equivalent of up to 119,000 full-time ...

"There is good potential for the extraction of these metals and minerals, and I hope that Russian companies will invest in Afghanistan in this area," Nooruddin Azizi added KAZAN, May 15.

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