Afghanistan’s estimated $1-3 trillion mineral endowment is increasingly attracting attention from governments, mining companies and industrial strategists seeking access to the raw materials needed for the global energy transition. Yet the country’s vast deposits of lithium, copper, iron ore, cobalt and rare earth elements remain among the least developed major resource assets in the world. [...] The post Afghanistan’s Untapped $1-3 Trillion Mineral Wealth Could Reshape Global Supply Chains appeared first on The Middle East Observer .