KHOST CITY (Pajhwok): A private company has started extracting chromite from a mine in southeastern Khost province.
Extraction works at the chromite mine located in the Razak Mangi area of Zazai Maidan district was started yesterday during a ceremony.
Local officials said the development would illegal extraction and smuggling of the precious stone.
Khost Mines director Sadiq Jan told Pajhwok that the excavation works would take five years to complete and 2,260 tons of chromite stone would be obtained annually.
He said the contract for each ton of chromite stone had been given against 10,500 afghanis and a . . .
