Zarkashan is a mine located approximately 225 km south-west of Kabul in the Ghazni Province, Afghanistan.

[1] Recently the USGS assessment of the mineral potential in Afghanistan included ongoing compilation of historic German and Soviet mapping, geophysics data, drilling, and sampling data, and incorporation into a GIS database using Esri products.

There are many ancient open pits and underground workings that show that this area has been mined in the past.

Four borehole lines were collected by Soviet geologists along the main channel of the Zarkashan River and initial results suggested deposits containing up to 500 mg per cubic meter.

Power can potentially be brought in from the nearby grid at Ghazni, or from a dedicated self-supplied source.