Apparently chinese are try to extract it.[0] They also just got this oil deal recently.[1] I think the mineral extracting is actually good, regardless of who does it. It's increasing total GDP in any event.
I think you are being rather naive that the Chinese won't simply bribe the right people and any benefit from the extraction actually reaches the Afghan people or increases their GDP in any meaningful way.
They can try anyhow, who knows how well that will go. Might be their turn to get stuck in a quagmire over there.
Afghanistan is about the worst possible place to extract resources from. Yes, yes China is trying, but its China, its a billion people thy are trying literally everything everywhere.
China will find Afghanistan just as useless as the US and literally every other empire for 5000 years.
