{"id":27174,"date":"2025-02-11T11:17:31","date_gmt":"2025-02-11T11:17:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/?p=27174"},"modified":"2025-02-11T11:17:31","modified_gmt":"2025-02-11T11:17:31","slug":"turkish-firm-secures-6-2m-investment-deal-for-marble-mining-in-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/2025\/02\/turkish-firm-secures-6-2m-investment-deal-for-marble-mining-in-afghanistan\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkish firm secures $6.2M investment deal for marble mining in Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>KABUL (SW) &#8211; The Ministry of Mines and Petroleum officials on Tuesday, signed an agreement in Kabul for the exploration, extraction, and processing of the &#8220;Dara-e-Noor&#8221; marble mine in Kandahar province, with a Turkish company.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Hedayatullah Badri, Acting Minister of Mines and Petroleum, said that the agreement for the Dara-e-Noor marble mine, covering a large area of three square kilometers, was signed for a value of $6.2 million, with a duration of 30 years.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The project will be carried out according to international standards,&#8221; Badri said.<\/p>\n<p>Officials the Ministry of Mines and Petroleum under the Islamic Emirate mentioned that the agreement also includes social service provisions, such as the construction of health and educational centers.<\/p>\n<p>Officials from the Turkish company &#8220;Emi oglu,&#8221; which is responsible for the exploration, extraction, and processing of the mine, stated that the project will create jobs for hundreds of people.<\/p>\n<p>Musa Emi oglu, the deputy director of the company, said that after the extraction and processing process, they will promote Afghan marble in international markets.<\/p>\n<p>He added, &#8220;The company operates in the extraction, processing of marble, crude oil, and industry worldwide. We began official operations eight months ago and set up a small operational site in Shah Wali Kot district, where 100 people live. We promise to introduce Afghan marble to the world market after extraction and processing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, the Ministry of Mines and Petroleum under the Islamic Emirate had signed seven major mining contracts with companies from China, Turkey, Iran, and the United Kingdom, valued at over $6 billion.<\/p>\n<h6><em><strong>ENDS<\/strong><\/em><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ministry of Mines and Petroleum officials on Tuesday, signed an agreement in Kabul for the exploration, extraction, and processing of the &#8220;Dara-e-Noor&#8221; marble mine in Kandahar province, with a Turkish company.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":27175,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[990,984,981,8,6,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest","category-news","category-economy","category-governance","category-afghanistan","category-headline"],"views":130,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27174"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27176,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27174\/revisions\/27176"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}