{"id":24646,"date":"2026-09-09T02:57:01","date_gmt":"2026-09-09T02:57:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/?p=24646"},"modified":"2026-09-09T03:13:07","modified_gmt":"2026-09-09T03:13:07","slug":"nangarhar-talc-mine-extraction-contract-signed-for-65-9-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/2026\/09\/09\/nangarhar-talc-mine-extraction-contract-signed-for-65-9-million\/","title":{"rendered":"Nangarhar Talc Mine extraction contract signed for $65.9 million"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>KABUL: The Ministry of Mines and Petroleum has announced the signing of a contract for the extraction and processing of Block Two of the talc mine in the Kudi Khel area of Shirzad district in Nangarhar province.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Humayun Afghan, a ministry spokesperson, said in a post on X that the contract, valued at $65.865 million, was signed with the Nangarhar Afghan Talc Mining and Processing Company and will cover an area of 3.826394 square kilometers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Under the agreement, the contracting company will pay the Islamic Emirate a royalty of 2,265 Afghanis for every metric ton of talc extracted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Speaking at the signing ceremony, Minister of Mines and Petroleum Mullah Hedayatullah Badri said implementing the talc extraction and processing project would create employment opportunities for local residents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, the head of the contracting company pledged that the extraction, processing, and other related activities would be carried out professionally.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KABUL: The Ministry of Mines and Petroleum has announced the signing of a contract for the extraction and processing of Block Two of the talc mine in the Kudi Khel area of Shirzad district in Nangarhar province. Humayun Afghan, a ministry spokesperson, said in a post on X that the contract, valued at $65.865 million, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":24643,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[83],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24646"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24646"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24646\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24648,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24646\/revisions\/24648"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}