{"id":21038,"date":"2026-09-03T13:32:22","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T13:32:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/09\/03\/nuristan-gemstones-sold-for-more-than-122-million-afghanis\/"},"modified":"2026-09-03T13:32:22","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T13:32:22","slug":"nuristan-gemstones-sold-for-more-than-122-million-afghanis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/09\/03\/nuristan-gemstones-sold-for-more-than-122-million-afghanis\/","title":{"rendered":"Nuristan Gemstones Sold for More Than 122 Million Afghanis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Taliban administration said precious and semi-precious stones extracted from mines in the Mawi area of Doab district in Afghanistan\u2019s Nuristan province were sold through an open auction for 122.5 million Afghanis.<\/p>\n<p>According to the information provided, the shipment included 12 kilograms of turquoise, two tonnes of kunzite, crystal and morganite. No further details were given about the number of buyers or when the auction was held.<\/p>\n<p>The source said 12,250,910 Afghanis from the sale will be deposited into the state treasury. The Taliban administration has not issued any explanation on how this money will be spent.<\/p>\n<p>Nuristan is one of Afghanistan\u2019s mountainous provinces in the east of the country, and some of its districts are known for their deposits of precious and semi-precious stones.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taliban officials say gemstones from Nuristan were sold at auction for more than 122 million Afghanis, with proceeds to go to the state treasury.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21037,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-important-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21038\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}