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<blockquote data-quote="HDRider" data-source="post: 1695849" data-attributes="member: 17025"><p>Despite being one of the poorest nations in the world, Afghanistan may be sitting on one of the richest troves of minerals in the world, valued at nearly $1 trillion, according to U.S. scientists.</p><p></p><p>The surveys verified all the major Soviet finds. Afghanistan may hold 60 million tons of copper, 2.2 billion tons of iron ore, 1.4 million tons of rare earth elements such as lanthanum, cerium and neodymium, and <a href="https://www.livescience.com/28865-aluminum.html" target="_blank">lodes of aluminum</a>, <a href="https://www.livescience.com/39187-facts-about-gold.html" target="_blank">gold</a>, silver, zinc, mercury and lithium. For instance, the Khanneshin carbonatite deposit in Afghanistan's Helmand province is valued at $89 billion, full as it is with <a href="https://www.livescience.com/6601-rare-earth-elements.html" target="_blank">rare earth elements</a>.</p><p></p><p>"Afghanistan is a country that is very, very rich in mineral resources," Jack Medlin, a geologist and program manager of the U.S. Geological Survey's Afghanistan project, told Live Science. "We've identified the potential for at least 24 world-class mineral deposits." The scientists' work was detailed in the Aug. 15 issue of the journal Science.</p><p>[URL unfurl="true"]https://www.livescience.com/47682-rare-earth-minerals-found-under-afghanistan.html[/URL]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="HDRider, post: 1695849, member: 17025"] Despite being one of the poorest nations in the world, Afghanistan may be sitting on one of the richest troves of minerals in the world, valued at nearly $1 trillion, according to U.S. scientists. The surveys verified all the major Soviet finds. Afghanistan may hold 60 million tons of copper, 2.2 billion tons of iron ore, 1.4 million tons of rare earth elements such as lanthanum, cerium and neodymium, and [URL='https://www.livescience.com/28865-aluminum.html']lodes of aluminum[/URL], [URL='https://www.livescience.com/39187-facts-about-gold.html']gold[/URL], silver, zinc, mercury and lithium. For instance, the Khanneshin carbonatite deposit in Afghanistan's Helmand province is valued at $89 billion, full as it is with [URL='https://www.livescience.com/6601-rare-earth-elements.html']rare earth elements[/URL]. "Afghanistan is a country that is very, very rich in mineral resources," Jack Medlin, a geologist and program manager of the U.S. Geological Survey's Afghanistan project, told Live Science. "We've identified the potential for at least 24 world-class mineral deposits." The scientists' work was detailed in the Aug. 15 issue of the journal Science. [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.livescience.com/47682-rare-earth-minerals-found-under-afghanistan.html[/URL] [/QUOTE]
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