The Interior Ministry of the Taliban government confirmed on January 7 that ongoing clashes between officials of a contracting gold-mining company and residents of Chah Ab district in Takhar province ...

The largely hidden gold rush in Badakhshan poses considerable risks to Afghans, and others living downstream in Central Asia.

All together now: NO BLOOD FOR NIOBIUM! When The New York Times reported in Monday’s lead story that Afghanistan was sitting on vast riches in completely untapped minerals just lying around waiting to ...

Pakistan, Jan. 13 -- Recent accounts of Afghanistan's war driven economy point to an alarming reality. Control over mineral ...

Pentagon officials and American geologist have located an estimated $1 trillion of untapped mineral deposits in Afghanistan, a finding that they belive could transform the country's flailing economy.

As neighbors to Afghanistan, both China and the Central Asian states have vested interests in the country, desiring a peaceful, prosperous, and stable Afghanistan. “It always starts with trilateral ...

Pakistan sits across a geological belt that stretches from Central Asia through Afghanistan into western China - a zone known to host some of the world's most commercially significant copper, gold, ...