Afghanistan find opens new future for that country

Now Afghans can change the subject from war to building an economy without poppies.
Monday’s front page news was that U.S. geologists have confirmed that Afghanistan has enormous untapped mineral wealth. It can be a major world supplier of copper, iron, lithium, cobalt and gold.
The United States is working with the Af-ghanistan government to begin to develop a mining industry to take ad-vantage of the immense economic potential these discoveries present. The initial estimate is that the deposits identified have a value of $1 trillion. That ballpark estimate really…