A Coal Resource Assessment for Afghanistan U.S. Department of the Interior U.S. Geological Survey by John SanFilipo background: Giral Coal Mine, Rajasthan,

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A Coal Resource Assessment for Afghanistan U.S. Department of the Interior U.S. Geological Survey by John SanFilipo background: Giral Coal Mine, Rajasthan, India

Progress to date? 5 mines in two coal fields visited Mar 04 7 samples of good provenance collected - analyses in progress 5 samples of good provenance provided by private sector - analysis nearly done 2 samples of dubious provenance Geospatial in progress (ASTER, maps)

What’s next? Coal and geospatial travel Nov 04 Emphasis on additional samples, mine evaluation, recon geology, literature archive Revisit Pol-e-Khomri with Khair Visit 2-4 new localities Scan Russian literature at AGS

Remaining FY additional trips 05 (same tasks) YR1 Products: Bibliography Archived Russian Reports Field investigations Coal Sector snapshot (Khair) Coal quality database Preliminary GIS Preliminary assessment

COAL RESOURCE ASSESSMENT Assess the quality and quantity of the coal resource on the local, regional, and national level. NOT A FLUID – DOES NOT MIGRATE Different than ore fluids or petroleum ASSESSMENT PROCESS IS NOT PROBABALISTIC

5 ft. 2 ft. 33% 49% 33% 9 ft. “coal” 37% ash 2 ft. 5 ft. 2.1 ft.34% 10% 7 ft. coal 18% ash composite “QUALIFYING COAL” PARAMETERS

Geographic Information System Assessment OUTCROP MINED OUT COAL ELEVATION COAL THICKNESS OVERBURDEN THICKNESS Slide courtesy of USGS Appalachian Basin Coal Assessment Team

“Unioned” GIS covers for calculating coal resources

Coal resource map – detail of mine areas

Resources table calculated from GIS (example is small subset of one of many tables created from slides 56 and 57) Millions of short tons of coal

COAL RESOURCE ASSESSMENT Most of the interpretive effort goes into the first step (intercept map) Volumetrics are relatively straightforward but tedious Not even close to the first step for Afghanistan What we need is geology

Vertical Extent (Stratigraphic position) K K J T R T R P P ??? Uncon- formity

Torkestan T R and older Pg K elv >3000 m Cartoon - not to scale Meymaneh Valley near Sar-e-Howz elv ~ 2100 m K Coal-bearing Jurassic present?? Markers beds present?

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ISH-GSN-3/04-1 PK-AND-3/04-1.1PK-AND-3/04-1.2PK-AND-3/ PK-KKR-3/04-1.1PK-KKR-3/ PK-DKS-3/ ligA subA hvCb hvBb hvAb subB subC Ro Selected Rank Parameters MMmF BTU DAF VM J2? J3? J3 = Upper Jurassic J2 = Middle Jurassic Pol-e-Khomri Coal Field Ishpushta Coal Field MMmF BTU DAF VM

Support Geospatial: Geophysics: IT: Training: Regional maps and sections ASTER Topos Airborne not critical Need new airphotos GPR? Ground mag? AGS as outlined NCD? General IT, English, Stats etc. Coal specific (university)