1. 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

2. 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)

3. 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

4. Remaining FY05 3 - 4 additional trips 05 (same tasks) YR1 Products: Bibliography Archived Russian Reports Field investigations Coal Sector snapshot (Khair) Coal quality database Preliminary GIS Preliminary assessment

5. 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

7. 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

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

9. “Unioned” GIS covers for calculating coal resources

10. Coal resource map – detail of mine areas

11. 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

12. 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

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

18. 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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30. 7500 8500 9500 10500 11500 12500 13500 14500 ISH-GSN-3/04-1 PK-AND-3/04-1.1PK-AND-3/04-1.2PK-AND-3/04-1.3 PK-KKR-3/04-1.1PK-KKR-3/04-1.2 PK-DKS-3/04-1 37 39 41 43 45 47 49 51 53 ligA subA hvCb hvBb hvAb subB subC Ro 0.53 0.51 0.58 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

40. 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)