Saturday, October 06, 2012
Kabul (BNA) Officials in Samangan province have reported 193 million Afghanis in the revenue of Darai Souf coal mine over the past six months of the year against the same period last year, press officer of Samangan province, Mohammad Sediq Azizi said.
According to the officials, the coal revenue of Darai Souf in the first six months of the year has reached 721 million Afghanis which indicates 193 million Afghanis against the same period last year.
Last year it was registered 528 million Afghanis in the first six months.
The governor of Darai Souf district, Fazal Rahman Khurami Jasour said that some 500 trucks are busy in transporting coal from Samangan to several provinces including capital Kabul and even Pakistan.
Discovered in the year of 1345, the Darai coal, according to survey conducted by the ex-Soviet Union, it contains more than 150 million tones.
