Seven-year-old children work in the cobalt and copper mines, where covetable ‘healing’ stones such as citrine and smoky quartz abound. International NGO Global Witness found that the TALIBAN earns up to $20m a year from Afghanistan’s lapis mines, lapis lazuli being, as crystal websites explain, one of the best stones for activating psychic abilities. It is impossible to know for sure if your crystal was obtained via an environmental and human rights horror show Http://www.theguardian.com/global/2019/jun/16/are-crystals-the-new-blood-diamonds-the-truth-about-muky-business-of-healing-stones
@Armchaircouch as a first gen-ish afghan american, I've heard so much from my father about afghan lapis lazuli, and his own pride in it. However this is from his time in the 50s and onward. I don't find it surprising at all that those bastards would do that, but that earning number seems a bit high. The opium I feel is far more lucrative for the T-ban.