Coal

PUL-I-KHUMRI (Pajhwok): Pajhwok Afghan News findings show a number of strongmen in Nahrain district of Baghlan province have stopped a coalmine extraction company from operating and as a result 126 million afghanis go to personal pockets annually. Coal from the mine located in Chinarak area of Nahrain district is illegally extracted since last two years. Pajhwok findings show 15 trucks carried away coal illegally and unprofessionally extracted from the mine on a daily basis and all the money from the extraction goes to irresponsible armed men and local strongmen.

BAMYAN (Pajhwok): Thousands of persons were left jobless following closure of a coalmine in central Bamyan province. The move has multiplied coal prices as well.

Local officials say more than 13,000 laborers were left jobless who were directly or indirectly associated with the mining sector.

Most of coalmine workers in Bamyan, Daikundi, Maidan Wardak, Baghlan and Ghor provinces were extracting coals in an unregulated way. 

AIBAK (Pajhwok): The prolonged electoral crisis has led to an unprecedented decline in revenue from coalmines in the Dara-i-Suaf district of northern Samangan province, an official said on Wednesday.

Mohammad Kabir Mukaram, director civil services, told Pajhwok Afghan News the continued election wrangling had a negative impact on the coal mining process in Samangan as it has rendered more than 2,000 employees jobless.

BAMYAN CITY (PAN): The price of coal, mostly used for heating homes in the winter, has increased beyond the purchasing power of poverty-stricken families in central Bamyan province, residents complain.

The complaint comes after a large number of influential individuals and traders raised with the governor the issue of the unprecedented surge in fuel prices, especially of coal.

MAZAR-I-SHARIF (PAN): One worker was killed and another injured when a coalmine partially collapsed in the Dara-i-SaufBala district of northern Samangan province, officials said on Thursday.

Governor KhairullahAnosh told Pajhwok Afghan News a delegation had been sent to the area to investigate Wednesday’s incident that occurred at a privately-run coalmine.

He said the government had authorised some private individuals to extract coal from mines in the district.

PUL-I-KHUMRI (PAN): With the reconstruction of the Karkar tunnel in northern Baghlan province, daily coal extraction in Afghanistan will increase to 100 tonnes, officials say.

Known as P-1, the tunnel is being rebuilt by an Afghan firm that has been awarded a contract for modernisingKarkar, Ahandara and Dodkash coal mines in Baghlan.

MAZAR-I-SHARIF (PAN): The coalmine collapse in northern Samangan province was the result of carelessness on the part of engineers and experts, an official said on Monday.

Twenty seven workers were killed, 22 others injured and several others had been missing as a result of the blast inside the coalmine in Do Aab district on Saturday.

Police chief Gen. Mohammad Salim Bekzad told Pajhwok Afghan News a high-level delegation, including the governor, had visited the site on Sunday to investigate the incident.

KABUL (PAN): President Hamid Karzai on Sunday expressed deep sorrows over deaths resulting from a coalmine blast in northern Samangan province.

Twenty-seven workers were killed during the explosion that left five people missing and 30 others trapped in the mine in Ravi Do Aab district.

In a statement from his office, the president extended his heartfelt condolences to the victims’ families and directed the authorities to provide them all possible assistance.

BAMYAN CITY (PAN): Residents say coal prices have increased in central Bamyan province, where extraction work at two mines is in full swing.

On a daily basis, a large number of trucks carry coal extracted from the mines in Saighan and Kohmard districts to other provinces, but a twofold increase has been seen in the commodity price in Bamyan.