Mining in Afghanistan - Mining Locations

Mining Locations

• Badakhshan Province: Badakhshan Gold, gemstones, lapis lazuli.
• Baghlan Province: Baghlan clay and gypsum, Dudkash industrial minerals
• Balkh Province: oil.
• Bamyan Province: Hajigak Mine (iron oxide).
• Daykundi Province: tin and tungsten
• Farah Province in the west: copper, lithium;
• Ghazni Province: Dashti Nawar lithium salts; Zarkashan Mine(copper, gold);.
• Ghor Province: Karnak-Kanjar mercury, Nalbandon lead and zinc
• Helmand Province: Khanneshin carbonatite, gold, rare earth elements, possible uranium reserves; Chagai Hills travertine, copper and gold.
• Herat Province: Shaida Copper Mine Dusar tin, Tourmaline tin, Herat barite and limestone
• Jowzjan Province: Oil and Gas
• Kabul Province: Jegdalek, Surobi District (gemstones).
• Kandahar Province: copper,cement
• Kapisa Province: copper
• Kunduz Province: Kunduz celestite
• Logar Province: copper (Mes Aynak).
• Nangarhar Province: elbaite, Ghunday Achin magnesite and talc.
• Nimroz Province: Godzareh (Gaudi Zireh) lithium salts.
• Nuristan Province: Nuristan pegmatites and gemstones.
• Panjshir Province: Panjshir Valley gemstones e.g. emerald.
• Paktika Province: Katawaz gold and Oil
• Samangan Province: Aybak (copper); Shabashak, Dara-I-Suf District (coking coal).
• Sar-e Pol Province: Balkhab Copper Mine (worlds largest deposit).
• Takhar Province: Samti, Panj River Valley (gold), Evaporite.
• Urozgan Province: Bakhud fluorite
• Zabul Province: Kundalyan gold and copper.

Also the following places which have not, as yet, been positively located:

• Southeastern Afghanistan: copper, at the Darband, and the Jawkhar prospects.
• Anjir, Hasar, and Nooraba Valleys: gold