Afghanistan Marble Industry

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Afghanistan marble industry.

Afghanistan s marble industry to boost economy and bring peace. Indian government officials on friday announced to provide technical support to afghanistan to develop its stone and marble industry. The western province of herat is home to the country s finest marble but in the last. 15 april 2010 the balkhi hall in the centre of herat is adorned for the occasion.

Afghanistan s marble industry is worth hundreds of millions of dollars. Us geological survey estimated the war torn afghanistan s marble reserve to the tune of usd 200 billion. Afghanistan according to recent geological and gps surveys sits on vast deposits of marble and granite stones and has a huge potential for growth in the marble industry that has already been growing by over 60 per cent annually since 2008. The afghanistan marble industry suffers from a lack of adequate equipment has little technical knowledge and uses poor extraction methods that often significantly reduce the value of the marble.

Huge blocks of raw marble have been set outside the venue. The marble and granite sector export strategy forms an integral part of afghanistan s national export strategy nes. Afghanistan s marble industry to boost economy and bring peace. Afghanistan has over 1 400 mineral fields containing barite chromite coal copper gold iron ore lead natural gas petroleum precious and semi precious stones salt sulfur talc and zinc among many other minerals.

Gupta chief executive officer of the centre for development of stones on friday said india would provide all possible support in this effort as there there was huge untapped potential for development of stone industry in afghanistan. He said in the budget of the current financial year like other sme industries government has failed to provide relief to the marble industry in the fixed sales tax scheme while this scheme was very successful from july 2016 to june 2019. Extraction is by blasting using black powder typically imported from pakistan.