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TO GO WITH AFP STORY Afghanistan-unrest-mining-gold, FEATURE by Ben Sheppard In this photograph taken on May 6, 2013, Afghan miners work at a gold mine on a mountainside near the village of Qara Zaghan in Baghlan province. Morad Ali was one of generations of local men who used chisels and pickaxes to extract small amounts of gold from the forbidding peaks above the village of Qara Zaghan on the edge of the Hindu Kush mountains. Now a dirt track has been carved up to the spot, and professional surveying is underway as part of efforts to assess how Afghanistan's vast mineral wealth could be exploited as the country seeks a more stable and prosperous future. AFP PHOTO/ SHAH Marai (Photo credit should read SHAH MARAI/AFP via Getty Images)