Reko Diq feasibility study completed, OGDCL confirms $627m investment
- 25-Mar-2025
ISLAMABAD: The Oil and Gas Development Company Limited has announced the completion of the Reko Diq feasibility study, confirming investment of $627 million in the project, ARY News reported quoting OGDCL. According to spokesperson, the company holds an 8.33% stake in the $5.6 billion Reko Diq mining project, which is expected to yield 13.1 million […]
Pakistan Invites American Investment Across Key Sectors: IT, Energy, Agriculture, and Mining
- 25-Jun-2024
Ambassador Sardar Masood Khan of Pakistan has extended a warm invitation to American entrepreneurs and corporate leaders to invest in Pakistan’s burgeoning sectors of IT, energy, agriculture, and mineral extraction. His remarks came during a pivotal engagement in Washington DC, where he highlighted the robust economic ties between the United States and Pakistan. According to […]
Govt establishes departments to speed up mining
- 09-Jun-2024
ISLAMABAD: The federal government has established departments in all provinces to speed up mining of mineral reserves in Pakistan. The minerals sector is one of the priority sectors of Special Investment Facilitation Council (SIFC) and collaborations are being made with local and foreign investors for its promotion. Mining in Chagai district has been accelerated since […]
PM Shehbaz Sharif invites Chinese firm to invest in mining
- 24-May-2024
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has invited Chinese firm MCC Tongsin Resources to invest in the mining sector of Pakistan and assured provision of all-out facilitation in this connection. The Mining and Mineral sectors have been on the priority list of Special Investment Facilitation Council and a significant headway has also been achieved in this […]
‘Pace of work accelerated on mining, power plant projects in Thar Block-1’
- 27-Jul-2020
Asim Saleem Bajwa said that the development work on mining has been completed by 20 per cent and 15 per cent on the power plant project.
Fires not the only threat facing Amazon
- 31-Aug-2019
Raging wildfires have drawn the world's attention to the Amazon but immolation is just one of the dangers facing the world's largest rain forest
13 feared dead in flooded Indian ‘rat hole’ mine
- 14-Dec-2018
NEW DELHI: At least 13 miners were feared dead after being trapped by flooding in an illegal “rat hole” coal mine site in remote northeastern India, police said Friday. Dozens of emergency workers were pumping water out of a large trench that was flooded early Thursday near a river in mineral-rich Meghalaya state. “We are […]
PASDEC signs MoU with Balochistan for uplift of marble, granite mining
- 20-Apr-2018
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Stone Development Company (PASDEC) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the government of Balochistan for the overall development of marble and granite mining and processing sector of the province. On behalf of PASDEC, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Zahid Maqsood Sheikh signed the MoU while Secretary Industries and Commerce Aziz Ahmed Tarar […]
Colombia’s illegal mining linked to malaria outbreak
- 30-Apr-2016
BOGOTA: Colombia's widespread illegal mining is blamed for causing environmental damage and holding workers in slave-like conditions -- and now is also being blamed for a malaria outbreak.
At least 90 dead in landslide at Myanmar jade mine: state media
- 22-Nov-2015
YANGON, Myanmar: At least 30 people were killed in a huge landslide as they picked through mountains of waste rubble in a remote mining area of northern Myanmar searching for precious jade, state media reported Sunday.