I’ll believe it when I see it. That country’s been there since dirt, and it’s hard to believe it hasn’t been scoured for precious metals for millenia.
Not saying it ain’t so. Just saying, “show me.”
IIRC it has been known for having jewels and, I think, some gold, since antiquity. But the worst logistics this side of Antarctica plus an extremely insular population have kept out development. They need to build modern roads and rail roads before they can exploit their mineral resources. Pre-Bush they had little of the former and literally zero of the latter. The Taliban and the drug lords would rather keep them poor and centuries behind the rest of us and would rather build IED’s than either.
It will be a game changer for sure.