Afghanistan's Emerging Mining Oligarchy Summary • Afghanistan is rich in mineral resources, the value of which has been roughly estimated at as much as $1 trillion. • The country may, however, be following a "paradox of plenty" path in tendering its mining sector to private investors. The risk is not insignificant.
Afghanistan is rich in resources such as copper, gold, oil, natural gas, uranium, bauxite, coal, iron ore, rare earths, lithium, chromium, lead, zinc, gemstones, talc, sulfur, travertine, gypsum ...
At a coal mine in Baghlan province, boys earn between $3 and $8 for a day's work. In Afghanistan, coal mining relies on the labor of children | 90.3 KAZU Since the return of the Taliban, Afghanistan's coal exports have …
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9 Jun 2021. 05:59 PM (GMT) Masked gunmen have stormed the compound of a mine-clearing organisation in northern Afghanistan, killing at least 10 workers and wounding 16 others. There were 110 ...
NAHRIN, Afghanistan — On weekdays, when most kids around the world are at school, 12-year-old Mansour is in the middle of a grueling shift at the coal mines. Deep inside a tunnel carved into the side of a blackened mountain, the young boy waits under the flickering glow of his headlamp as older boys pry coal out of the earth by …
In an exclusive interview on a state-owned TV in 2022, Shahabuddin Dilawar, the acting minister of mines and petroleum, explained that Afghanistan has millions of tons of coal reserves in ...
Coal played a significant role in financing the Taliban's takeover of Afghanistan and has strategic importance as the militants seek to govern, experts told …
Mining companies in Afghanistan are wantonly exploiting the country's mineral resources with little or no taxes and royalties going to the government. Contracting of mines has been susceptible to political influence, there is little accountability and sometimes conflicts with local communities have led to violence and deaths. This Peace …
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Dozens of men and boys, covered head to toe in coal dust, stream in and out of the mine shafts bored deep into a mountain in northern Afghanistan. In the mines below Nahrain in Baghlan province ...
An Afghan miner sifts through coals at the Karkar coal mine in Pul-i-Kumri, about 170km north of Kabul, March 8, 2009. REUTERS/Ahmad Masood/Files Acquire Licensing Rights
Afghanistan has significant deposits of coal. Out of the country's 80 coal mines, 17 are operational, with most located in central and northern Afghanistan. Much of the coal is...
Coal has long been mined in Afghanistan, especially in the north and west of the country. Three to four million tons of coal, valued at $300 million to $400 million, are already extracted each ...
One-third of the Afghan population lives below the poverty line (earning less than $2 a day) and a further 50 percent are barely above this line. With a per capita GDP of only $595, Afghans hoped ...
Earlier on May 23, a total of four coal mine workers have died of suffocation from an explosion in Afghanistan's Baghlan province coal mines, officials said, Khaama Press reported. On May 23, two separate gas explosions in the Tale Barfak and Jalgah districts of Afghanistan's Baghlan province resulted in the deaths of four coal mine …
An Afghan miner pushes a wagon at the Karkar coal mine in Pul-i-Kumri, about 170km north of Kabul, March 8, 2009. ... A 2019 report by Afghanistan's Ministry of Mines and Petroleum put the country ...
Kabul, Afghanistan – When residents near the Abkhorak mine in northern Afghanistan heard of the coal mine's collapse, they immediately rushed to free the 57 miners trapped beneath the debris.
June 2, 2022, 8:59pm. SAMANGAN, Afghanistan – Noorullah says he's 18, but he looks years younger, despite the layer of coal dust on his slender face. Huddled in the darkness of a narrow coal ...
At least 24 miners have been killed in a collapse in a coal mine in Afghanistan's northern Samangan province, officials said. The collapse occurred after a gas explosion on Saturday evening at ...
Jawed Noorani, an Afghan mining expert, estimated that the Taliban was collecting more than $1 billion a year in taxes on minerals. Mansfield said the …
forms of sulphur and trace element composition. The coal quality results must be. 0.75%, though some mines, like Karkar and Sabzak, tend to produce high sulphur coals, 2% to 3%. Afghan coals are ...
Kabul: At least 10 miners died in Afghanistan after being trapped underground when a coal mine collapsed in the northern province of Baghlan, an official said Thursday. Thirteen workers were ...
After the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan in 1979, the Soviets began development of the mine but it was suspended in 1989 following Soviet withdrawal from the country. The high-grade portion of ...
Afghanistan's state-run coal industry is going strong in an otherwise shattered economy. Many underage workers are the ones who are extracting the coal. NAHRIN, Afghanistan — On...
Wed 16 Nov 2022 02.00 EST. A young boy stands outside the coalmine in Afghanistan's Baghlan province, in the north of the country. Miners load up donkeys with coal before leading them to a ...
Kabul [Afghanistan], June 15 (ANI): Two coal mine workers were killed, while 35 others fainted due to gas suffocation in Afghanistan's Samangan province, Afghanistan-based Khaama Press reported citing Taliban's provincial officials. Mohammad Nasim Khybershekan, the Taliban-led district governor of Dara-e-Suf Bala, Samangan …
A 2019 report by Afghanistan's Ministry of Mines and Petroleum put the country's copper resource at almost 30 million tonnes. An Afghan mining sector roadmap published by the ministry in the same ...
Coal mining is a dangerous job. ... You don't have to travel too far outside of Kabul to see signs that coal is king in Afghanistan's economy these days. ... NPR …
Since the return of the Taliban, Afghanistan's coal exports have increased — and so has child labor. At a coal mine in Baghlan province, boys earn between $3 …