No transportation, no ports, no law, no water to refine ores.
Minerals just don’t roll down to the sea. They reguire hundreds of millions of dollars in investment in a mine.
Nada.
Nothing.
Zip.
Might as well be on the moon. No one is going to touch them.
True value? Zero. Costs would exceed price. No free market capitalist pays for the privilege of losing money. Only government does that. Maybe the trains in Afghanistan can be run by Amtrac.
Besides, sooner or later, everything over there will be highly radioactive.....