HERAT CITY (Pajhwok): In western Herat province, the country’s biggest copper mine’s extraction contract was awarded to a private company with a $21.3 million primary investment on Tuesday.
The documents of the mine were handed over by Mohammad Hamayon Qayumi, acting finance minister, Nargis Nehan, acting mines and petroleum minister and Abdul Qayum Rahimi, the Herat governor, to the company today.
Nargis Nehan told the contract-signing ceremony that the extraction company had invested $21.3 million to explore the copper mine.
“The first phase includes digging exploration wells and . . .
