Amid a global lithium shortage, Afghanistan’s mineral deposits are being hailed as a new potential global supply, leaving overlooked just how difficult extraction can actually be
which stretches from Europe through Turkey, Afghanistan and Iran, considered by geologists to hold one of the highest concentrations of metals and minerals in the world.
That’s all very good on paper, but little is said about the difficulty in extracting said resources. That’s because most estimates rely on geologic surveys In 2018, China’s state-controlled Metallurgical Group and the Jiangxi Copper Company secured rights to Mes Aynak, home to one of the world’s largest copper deposits. The miningestimates the country's copper deposits at 30 million tonnes
More recent reports are vague as to how much lithium is actually in the country. One 2018 report from the US Geological Survey reports that Afghanistan has significant deposits of minerals that contain lithium, but makes no estimates as to how much can actually be found. A, even though it reports 1.4 million tonnes of rare earth metals.
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