{"id":24692,"date":"2026-09-09T15:47:14","date_gmt":"2026-09-09T15:47:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/?p=24692"},"modified":"2026-09-09T15:47:16","modified_gmt":"2026-09-09T15:47:16","slug":"nangarhar-talc-mine-extraction-contract-signed-for-nearly-15-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/2026\/09\/09\/nangarhar-talc-mine-extraction-contract-signed-for-nearly-15-million\/","title":{"rendered":"Nangarhar Talc mine extraction contract signed for nearly $15 million"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>KABUL: The Ministry of Mines and Petroleum has announced the signing of a contract for the extraction of the \u201cFirst Block of the Talc Mine\u201d in the Kudkhilo area of Shirzad district in Nangarhar province, valued at nearly $15 million.<br>The 30-year contract was signed between Mullah Hedayatullah Badri, Minister of Mines and Petroleum, and Nabi Afghan Company.<br>According to a statement from the ministry, the mine covers an area of 6.988284 square kilometers, while the contracting company will spend $900,000 on social development projects.<br>The company will also pay the Islamic Emirate a royalty of 1,970 Afghanis for every metric ton of talc extracted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KABUL: The Ministry of Mines and Petroleum has announced the signing of a contract for the extraction of the \u201cFirst Block of the Talc Mine\u201d in the Kudkhilo area of Shirzad district in Nangarhar province, valued at nearly $15 million.The 30-year contract was signed between Mullah Hedayatullah Badri, Minister of Mines and Petroleum, and Nabi [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":24693,"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\/24692"}],"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=24692"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24692\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24694,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24692\/revisions\/24694"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}