Title: Afghanistan's Artisanal Coal Mine Supply Chain
Subtitle: How The Rush to Generate Revenue Destroyed the Resource and Mortgaged the Country’s Future Development Prospects
Subject Classification:  Politics and Government, Economics and Finance, Energy  
BIC Classification: JP, KNB, KF
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Binding: Hardback, eBook
Planned publication date: May 2027
ISBN (Hardback): 978-1-83711-778-9
ISBN (eBook): 978-1-83711-779-6

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Description

Most artisanal mining activities are illegal, so participants make every effort to keep the workings of the supply chain as obscure as possible. Because supply chains are poorly understood, efforts by the international community to interrupt the illegal artisanal commodity trade often fall short. Illegal traders can always find ways to circumvent any regulatory efforts based on an incomplete understanding of the industry operations.

From this perspective, this study of artisanal coal mining in Afghanistan is unique. It succeeds in comprehensively and verifiably documenting Afghanistan’s artisanal coal supply chain from mine mouth to delivery to the international buyer. Besides documenting the supply chain, this case study addresses the importance of coal mining to the Afghan economy, the impact of coal mining on human and environmental health, the role of coal in supporting the Taliban insurgency and subsequently the Taliban government, and the long-term impact of resource destruction caused by unregulated coal mining to Afghanistan’s future economic development potential.

This case study traces the development of coal mining since its inception in the 1940s to its peak production in 2018, and the impending industry collapse.

Biography

Author(s):  Christopher Wnuk advises on energy and mineral resource exploration issues globally. In Afghanistan, he has been involved in coal, copper, lithium brine and rare metal exploration and has provided on-the-job exploration training to the Afghanistan Geological Survey and the Afghan private sector.

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