About the DVD containing the whole report—

Summaries of Important Areas for Mineral Investment and Production Opportunities of Nonfuel Minerals in 

Afghanistan

By Stephen G. Peters, Trude V.V. King, Thomas J. Mack, Michael P. Chornack (eds.), and the

U.S. Geological Survey Afghanistan Mineral Assessment Team

U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2011–1204

USGS Afghanistan Project Product No. 199

Version 1.0, September 2011

The DVD in the pocket opposite contains the entire 

report, including appendixes 1–3. Because of its length, 

the report was divided into volumes I and II for printing. 

This material is also available separately on the Web. 

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The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and the

U.S. Department of Defense Task Force for Business 

and Stability Operations (TFBSO) studied the fuel and 

nonfuel mineral resources of Afghanistan from 

October 2009 to September 2011. This report 

summarizes results of joint studies on 24 important 

areas of interest (AOIs) of nonfuel mineral resources 

that were identified for mineral investment and 

production opportunities in Afghanistan. The potential 

for early economic mining in each area is discussed for 

a number of different mineral, commodity, and deposit 

types. Data packages and information packages for each 

of the 24 AOIs and their subareas are available for 

download and viewing at http://afghanistan.cr.usgs.gov/

and http://mapdss2.er.usgs.gov/.

For images in the B-lettered chapters that are derived

from hyperspectral data, higher resolution files are also 

available at http://afghanistan.cr.usgs.gov/minerals/.

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Contact

Stephen G. Peters

U.S. Geological Survey

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E-mail: speters@usgs.gov