{"id":21394,"date":"2026-09-08T16:15:15","date_gmt":"2026-09-08T16:15:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/09\/08\/panjshir-emeralds-sold-auction-afghanistan\/"},"modified":"2026-09-08T16:15:15","modified_gmt":"2026-09-08T16:15:15","slug":"panjshir-emeralds-sold-auction-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/09\/08\/panjshir-emeralds-sold-auction-afghanistan\/","title":{"rendered":"More Than 11,000 Carats of Panjshir Emeralds Sold at Auction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Taliban administration in Panjshir has said that 11,192 carats of emeralds extracted from mines in the province, along with three emerald samples, were sold at auction on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>According to Saifuddin Latun, the governor\u2019s spokesman in Panjshir, the emeralds were valued at 307.852 million Afghanis. He released the information in a press release.<\/p>\n<p>The Panjshir governor\u2019s spokesman said nearly 1,000 domestic and foreign traders took part in the auction. He added that three Chinese traders were also among the participants.<\/p>\n<p>Panjshir is one of Afghanistan\u2019s best-known provinces for emerald extraction, and its mines are considered an important source of gemstones in the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than 11,000 carats of emeralds from Afghanistan\u2019s Panjshir province were sold at auction, Taliban officials said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21393,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21394","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=21394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21394\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}