Afghanistan Rare Earth Ore Dryer

Digging into afghanistans riches according to studies from the us geological survey afghanistan may hold as much as 60 million tons of copper 22 billon tons of iron ore and 14 million tons

May 29 2019 defense applications rare earth metals are used in commercial and defense applications for example virginianclass nuclearpowered submarines each use 9200 pounds of rare earth metals while arleigh burke guided missile destroyers require about 5200 lbs of rare earth metals there are 66 destroyers in service and 14 either under construction or on order

Soviet mining experts in the 1980s discovered that afghanistan was rich in natural resources such as iron copper gold cobalt rare earth metals and lithium but the