USGS outlines industrial minerals in Afghanistan in new report
By Siobhan Lismore-Scott
Published: Friday, 30 September 2011
Troubled country holds barytes, chromite, graphite deposits – but more work needed
Afghanistan holds vast deposits of industrial minerals, a
new study by the US Geological Survey (USGS) reported on
Thursday.
The survey shows that Afghanistan folds deposits of
graphite, bauxite, chromite,...