{"id":1802,"date":"2025-05-29T18:08:07","date_gmt":"2025-05-29T13:38:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/weezharoz.com\/en\/?p=1802"},"modified":"2025-05-29T18:09:47","modified_gmt":"2025-05-29T13:39:47","slug":"afghanistans-economic-commission-approves-key-mining-contracts-and-royalty-rates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/weezharoz.com\/en\/afghanistans-economic-commission-approves-key-mining-contracts-and-royalty-rates\/","title":{"rendered":"Afghanistan’s Economic Commission Approves Key Mining Contracts and Royalty Rates"},"content":{"rendered":"

Weezharoz<\/strong>-A major item on the agenda was the approval of the contract for the Black Iron Mine in Dara-e-Yakawlang, Bamyan Province, awarded to Millat Steel and Khan Wazir Companies.<\/p>\n

The contract was approved on the condition that the companies establish a full-scale iron processing factory within the country and pay 20% of the revenue from processed iron as royalty to the Ministry of Mines and Petroleum.<\/p>\n

The commission also discussed royalty rates for Blocks I and II of the gypsum mine in Kori Taw, Chardara District, Kunduz Province.<\/p>\n

The royalty was set at 250 Afghanis per ton of extracted gypsum.<\/p>\n

Further discussions involved marble mines in Dand Luqman (Goshta District) and Jokan (Hisarak District, Nangarhar).<\/p>\n

The Ministry of Mines and Petroleum was instructed to negotiate with relevant companies and report back to the commission.<\/p>\n

Additionally, the nephrite mine in Walagi village, Tagab District, Kapisa was reviewed.<\/p>\n

Based on the Economic Commission’s technical committee recommendations, the contract was approved with 60% royalty to the ministry.<\/p>\n

The session concluded with deliberations on the serpentine mine in Jarobi Markhi Khel, Sherzad District, Nangarhar.<\/p>\n

It was decided that the mine would be offered publicly to qualified bidders through an open process.<\/p>\n

The Ministry of Mines will evaluate bids and propose a qualified company to the Economic Deputy Office.<\/p>\n

Weezharoz<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Weezharoz-A major item on the agenda was the approval of the contract for the Black Iron Mine in Dara-e-Yakawlang, Bamyan Province, awarded to Millat Steel and Khan Wazir Companies. The contract was approved on the condition that the companies establish a full-scale iron processing factory within the country and pay 20% of the revenue from …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1803,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-economic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/weezharoz.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1802","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/weezharoz.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/weezharoz.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weezharoz.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weezharoz.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1802"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/weezharoz.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1802\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1804,"href":"https:\/\/weezharoz.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1802\/revisions\/1804"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weezharoz.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/weezharoz.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weezharoz.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weezharoz.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}