In Afghanistan’s northeastern Badakhshan province, dozens of excavators operate day and night to extract gold from the mountains where villagers and their livestock once roamed. Thousands of miners are deployed across the Shiwa area, extracting gold for investors nationwide. Some residents in the ar

In Afghanistan's northeastern Badakhshan province, dozens of excavators operate day and night to extract gold from the mountains where villagers and their livestock once roamed.

Gold mining operations in Afghanistan's Badakhshan province are causing significant environmental degradation. Villagers report polluted rivers and loss of farmland due to…