{"id":26428,"date":"2026-10-25T02:54:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-25T02:54:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/?p=26428"},"modified":"2026-10-25T02:54:13","modified_gmt":"2026-10-25T02:54:13","slug":"nangarhars-talc-mining-contract-worth-57-million-signed-with-private-company","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/2026\/10\/25\/nangarhars-talc-mining-contract-worth-57-million-signed-with-private-company\/","title":{"rendered":"Nangarhar\u2019s talc mining contract worth $57 million signed with private company"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>KABUL: The Ministry of Mines and Petroleum has announced the signing of a $57 million contract for the extraction of talc from Block Two of the talc mine in Spin Ghar district of Nangarhar province.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the ministry, the 15-year contract was signed with Ekram Khalid Mining and Processing Company, with the royalty rate set at 1,375 Afghanis per tonne.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The company will also spend more than $303,000 on social services as part of the project, the ministry said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The project is expected to create employment opportunities for around 216 people once implemented.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KABUL: The Ministry of Mines and Petroleum has announced the signing of a $57 million contract for the extraction of talc from Block Two of the talc mine in Spin Ghar district of Nangarhar province. According to the ministry, the 15-year contract was signed with Ekram Khalid Mining and Processing Company, with the royalty rate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":26429,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[85],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26428"}],"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=26428"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26428\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26430,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26428\/revisions\/26430"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}