Returning to power in Afghanistan after a 20-year absence, the Taliban have regained control of natural resources that a former mines minister of the country once said could be worth up to $3 ...

Abid Atullah, the Taliban's manager of mines in the Nahrain district, said they collected $16,000 to $30,000 in tax revenue from the Chinarak mines each day — a modest but welcome revenue ...

In Afghanistan, clearing landmines to save lives. Afghanistan is home to the world's largest landmine removal program, but as special correspondent Jennifer Glasse reports, mine agencies have ...

Reference: Bariand,P. Cesbron, F. & Giraud, R. (1968): Une nouvelle espèce minérale: l`afghanite de Sar-e-sang, Badakhshan, Afghanistan. Comparaison avec les minéraux du groupe de la cancrinite. Bulletin de la Société Francaise de Minéralogie et Christallographie. 91:34-42; Canadian Mineralogist (1979) 17:47-52 ... (2002): Mines and ...

Initially it was believed, in 1993, that it would take up to 4200 years to clear 20% of Afghanistan of mines, but in 10 years over half of the high priority areas have been de-mined and it is ...

Afghanistan (2nd edition): Kabul, Afghanistan, Republic of Afghanistan Geological and Mineral Survey, 419 p. Afzali, H., 1981, Les ressources d'hydrocarbures, de métaux e de substances utiles de l'Afghanistan: aperçu général: Chronique de la Recherche Minière, no. 460, p. 29-51.

he gem mines of Afghanistan are some of the old-est in the world. The lapis lazuli mines at Sar-e-Sang, in the Badakhshan region, have been worked for at least 6,500 years (see, e.g., Wyart et al., 1981). Today, Afghanistan continues to be an important source of various gem minerals—including emerald, ruby, sapphire,

Download scientific diagram | Pics en basalte des mines de la montagne de Hogarzales. from publication: "Lágrimas negras". L'exploitation de l'obsidienne aux Îles Canaries: de la simplicité des ...

Even before President Joe Biden announced that he would withdraw US troops from Afghanistan earlier this year, setting the stage for the return of Taliban control, the country's …

Afghanistan has a commitment to clear all of its in-place anti-personnel land mines by 2023. The bill for that is about $350 million. Jennifer Glasse: To clear the recently laid mines, de-miners ...

Lying unconscious beneath a gray blanket, Amir Guy, 12 years old, is a grim reminder that the people of Afghanistan will be threatened by Soviet mines for years to come. He was walking in the ...

Armed Attack Kills 10 Staff of Charity Clearing Afghan Land Mines. Newly laid mines and other booby traps were buried beneath doors of buildings and beside …

In May 2011, Afghanistan's parliament cited security shortcomings, infrastructure and technicality problems as the most serious obstacles in developing Afghanistan's mining sector. "Mafia groups are making use of mines more than the Afghan government," Gul Ahmad Azimi, an Afghan senator, said during the session.[24]

Sar-e-sang lies in the southern part of the South Badakhshan block, near the granitic batholiths of the Western Hindu Kush and Laghman. The rocks near Sar-e-sang were originally an Archean (age assumed to be around 2400-2700 Ma) sequence of sedimentary rocks (pelites, evaporites and limestones) and mafic igneous rocks (intrusions and/or ...

Afghanistan is estimated to have at least 500 million tonnes of limestone found mainly in the provinces of Badakhshan, Herat and …

Deep beneath the ground in one of the world's poorest countries sits at least $1 trillion of untapped mineral resources, according to a report published by Afghanistan's Ministry of Mines and ...

Old Mines Bring New Casualties In Afghanistan Hundreds of Afghans, mostly children, are killed or injured each year from old mines and unexploded ammunition in unmarked areas. Many Afghans aren't ...

Land mines at Kandahar's airport Afghanistan is one of the world's most heavily land-mined countries, yet it has made progress in recent years in reducing the number of victims. Some 8,000 ...

14 Jan 2022. Origin. View original. As the world is waiting to decide on how to secure financial aid to Afghanistan, time is running out for maintaining critical local mine action capacity. But ...

The mines and mineral occurrences of Afghanistan are listed in a table as Appendix A of this publication. The table is divided into 3 parts; Pegmatite Fields, Named Sites & Deposits, …

UN Humanitarian Mine Action Coordination for Afghanistan (UN-HMACCA), to provide mine action coordination and support. The DMAC terminated the arrangement in March 2022 amid tensions with UNMAS linked to international non-recognition of the de facto authorities. In agreement with DMAC, UNMAS established a Liaison Office funded by the …

This inventory of more than 1000 mines and mineral occurrences in Afghanistan was compiled from published literature and the files of project members of the National …

On January 6, they announced the establishment of a commission to examine how to arrange the extraction of marble from three mines in the central Afghan province of Maidan Wardak and the lapis ...

The UN Demining Office in Kabul estimates that in 1995 there were 50 mine and UXO accidents every week: people returning to their homes, inspecting war damage, out in the fields, playing, and walking around mined areas of the city unaware of the danger. Bald statistics are valuable to those who know Afghanistan.

A Chinese company built this mining camp at Mes Aynak in Afghanistan about 10 years ago to house workers for a planned copper mine that never began production. The people in the front were taking ...

In 2013, the Afghanistan-based Lajwardeen Mining Company won a contract to extract lapis lazuli in Kuran wa Munjan for 15 years, reports the BBC 's Justin Rowlatt. But despite the award from …

An international anti-corruption watchdog says Afghanistan's war is being fueled by the country's mining sector, with the Taliban earning up to $20 million a year from illegal mining of lapis ...

Mining in Afghanistan Introduction One of the important and basic pillars in the economy of every country is natural resources and its other subterraneous resources. By the growing demand of industry and technology, e.g. trees for paper and fuel production, iron ore for steel products, copper for wire,

faced by the mine action sector in Afghanistan today."13 Table 1: Mine contamination by contamination type, as at the end of 202014 Type of contamination CHAs Area (m 2) SHAs Area (m ) Total area (m2) Anti-personnel mines 1,645 126,201,063 135 26,624,987 152,826,050 Improvised AP mines 428 22,254,408 54 12,227,044 34,481,452 AP mine …

Below is a breakdown of some of Afghanistan's key resources, as estimated by the country's mining ministry and the U.S. government, as well as their potential monetary value for the war …