Investigation of Gold Mines in Yaftal District of Badakhshan Province and its Economic Importance

Abstract

Due to the fact that there are many mines in Badakhshan province such as: lapis lazuli mine, Lal mine, emerald mine, etc., and it has made this province famous in this sense. Yaftal district is also rich in gold mining, and its extraction (of course, in a non-technical and elementary way) is carried out on a large scale, and it has changed the lives of the people of this district from an economic point of view. The purpose of this research is to collect information about gold and extract it for the knowledge of those interested. In this research, a descriptive-analytical method has been used. The findings of this work have shown that the existing mines in this district are owned by its residents due to their limited resources, they continuously extract them, sell them in the market and make their lives prosperous. As a result, the identification and extraction of these mines in Yaftal district has made a large number of people of this district busy and in general, there has been a significant change in the lives of these people from an economic point of view.