Market opportunity

To find out market opportunities we use sample supply-demand model .our approach will consist of stuffing the quality and quantity of row materials (i.e. Marbles) available in Afghanistan, and assessing the current and future demand for marbles at local and foreign markets. In a second step we will thoroughly evaluate the factors of production (e.g. land, labor, machinery, and, equipment, CapitaLand entrepreneurship) and study the potential for investment opportunities in marbles industry .finally we will identify the barriers and constrained that firms are faced with in order to evaluate the implicit cost which exist in the market.

Raw materials:

The US geological survey estimated the value of marbles reserves in Afghanistan around $200 billion. having considered this fact that the Afghanistan has the potential to supply middle eastern and is an market with an almost unlimited supply of marbles moreover most deposits forms during the Proterozoic age 540-2500 million years ago are some of the best know marbles in the world. Below is a description of marbles reserves in Afghanistan.

• Kabul province: the Proterozoic marbles quarries are in Ghazak, Karez-e-Mirtarakhel, and Hazara-e- Baghal. Pul-e Charkha and Qalamkar. Theghazak marble which is known as the Black Ghazak is located 32 km east of Kabul. Thekarez-e Mir marbles consist of granular white, and rarely grey –yellow marble, which is situated 40 km north of Kabul. in total there are 31 marble deposits in Kabul

• Logar province: the Proterozoic marble is quarried in Awbazake Dehnow and Mohammad Agha. Awbazake marble is ballistic and brown in color where Denow marble is brecciate and brown in color and Mohammad Agha marble is black and white in color.

Ballistic brown marbles slab brecciate brown marbles slab

• Wardak province: The Proterozoic Wardak marble is deposited near Maydan –share and it has grey and dark grey marble. The mine bed is up to 450 meters thick which is interceded with schist(a metamorphic rock ) totally there are six well known marbles mines in Wardak which people have been quarrying for the past forty years and the marbles are consist of gray and dark gray marbles and these marbles are extracted in previous 40 yeas back and know also the are extracting this marbles from Maydan marbles .

• Badakshan province: Bini-Kama deposit which consist of medium and coarsely crystalline marble belongs to Silurian and Devonian are (440-450 million years ago) this deposit of marble is estimated to be 1.300 million tons.

• Heart province: the Proterozoic Chest-e Sharif deposit is located 120km east of heart city. The marbles is finely crystalline its color range from white to light green.

White-color marble slab chest –e Sharif

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Nengrahare Provence: the Proterozoic Khogiani marbles deposit located 35km south west of Jalalabad city .the marble is white and known as the afghan white marble

Afghanistan has also the best quality marble known as Onyx marble which is called by is local name as Sang-e Rockham .Onyx is a banded variety of chalcedony, a cryptocrystalline form of quartz. Afghan Onyx deposits are located in Bamyan Helmand, Perwan, and Faryab provinces .so for the 66 marbles and granite deposits have been discovered in Afghanistan)

Furthermore it is worth mentioning that the British geological survey report found that chest and Khogiani and marbles hove better quality then Carrara marble an Italian marble recognized to be one of the best quality marbles in the world.