1 Afghanistan has vast mineral wealth but faces steep challenges to tap it
- Author: theconversation.com
- Published Date: 08/11/2022
- Review: 4.84 (712 vote)
- Summary: · A young Afghan miner carries a large stone. Afghanistan has mineral resources that include precious gems and minerals such as copper and rare
- Matching search results: Author’s note: In 2015, I was the instructor for a task force class in the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies at the University of Washington that produced a report on Afghanistan’s natural resources and the possibility of their acting …
2 Afghanistan to begin first commercial oil production
- Author: abc.net.au
- Published Date: 03/17/2022
- Review: 4.67 (510 vote)
- Summary: · Afghanistan has untapped mineral and energy reserves estimated to be worth up to $US3 trillion with vast deposits of resources including oil
- Matching search results: Mr Shahrani says Afghanistan is committed to improving governance and transparency and has signed up to international programs such as the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI), which seeks to disclose how mining revenues are …
3 Mapping Afghanistans untapped natural resources
- Author: aljazeera.com
- Published Date: 02/09/2022
- Review: 4.59 (449 vote)
- Summary: · Afghanistan has an estimated 1.4 million tonnes of rare earth minerals … mineral commonly used by the oil and gas industry in drilling
- Matching search results: In 2010, the United States Geological Survey (USGS) together with Afghanistan Geological Survey (AGS) conducted the most comprehensive geological survey of the country identifying 24 specific areas of interest (AOI) across Afghanistan’s 34 …
4 Factbox: What are Afghanistan&x27s untapped minerals and resources?
- Author: reuters.com
- Published Date: 10/27/2021
- Review: 4.26 (569 vote)
- Summary: · Afghanistan is rich in resources like copper, gold, oil, natural gas, uranium, bauxite, coal, iron ore, rare earths, lithium, chromium, lead,
- Matching search results: An Afghan mining sector roadmap published by the ministry in the same year said there were another 28.5 million tonnes of copper in undiscovered porphyry deposits. That would bring the total close to 60 million tonnes, worth hundreds of billions of …
5 Afghanistan: It’s About Oil – Earth Island Institute
- Author: earthisland.org
- Published Date: 03/22/2022
- Review: 4.09 (565 vote)
- Summary: By 2050, the US expects to import more than 80 percent of its petroleum from this region and much of that oil would be extracted from beneath the deserts of
- Matching search results: “From the US standpoint,” Brown University anthropologist William O. Beeman observed, “the only way to deny Iran everything is for the anti-Iranian Taliban to win in Afghanistan and to agree to the pipeline through their territory.” That is exactly …
6 Pipeline Politics: Oil, Gas And The US Interest In Afghanistan
- Author: outlookindia.com
- Published Date: 10/29/2021
- Review: 3.91 (502 vote)
- Summary: · Oil and gas are not the reason the US has attacked Afghanistan, but Afghanistan has long had a key place in US plans to secure control of
- Matching search results: The Eastern Route: China Another possibility of considerable importance for East Asia and Japan would be a pipeline from Turkmenistan to Xinjiang in China, and then into the Chinese gas grid to the industrialized east coast – and possibly on to …