October 06 2008: REKO Diq, an ancient volcano in Chaghi, Balochistan, literally means sandy peak. This is something of a misnomer.
It should be called Tangav Diq, or gold peak, because below the sands, according to development expert Syed Fazl-e-Haider, lie “12.3 million tons of copper and 20.9 million ounces of gold.” There is a saying in Balochistan that a Baloch child may be without socks, but when he grows up every step he takes will be on gold. Reko Diq, Saindak, Sui all prove that the barefooted Baloch do tread on gold. That this wealth hasn’t benefited them isn’t accidental.
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Please refer the following link which is comprised of discussions and suggestions posted on Facebook/Discussion Boards of Dunyanews,Geonews ARYnews and Expressnews etc. starting from Feb.2011 when the case was in the Supreme Court of Pakistan.This discussion and suggestions, were the attempt to raise the awareness about different stages of Copper Production without which Pakistanis would have lost their wealth as the Supreme Court was being misguided by the Contractor. I was worried when the Supreme Court had given the remarks and compared the Contract award with the price of SHIRTS. Please ignore typing mistakes.
http://buildindustrialpakistan.blogspot.com/2011/11/reko-diq-copper-gold-project_27.html
The above remarks of Supreme Court of Pakistan had made me upset to think that how weakly the case was defended in Supreme Court. Please see my timely comments below, before the final decision of Court came.
(T.C.C. was given license only for geological estimation of Reko-Diq copper-gold reserves which has been completed. While they do not have mining and ore processing rights for which they insisted in the Supreme Court).
Any prospective investment offer should be based on the following stage wise integrated Copper manufacturing Plant so that youth of the province and over all Pakistanis could get maximum benefits of the resources.
Video -I
Comprising of Mining, Grinding and Floatation process to produce Copper concentrate.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZjaUX4kDUSw
Video-II
Comprising of Smelting, Converting, Anode refining and LME A-grade copper Cathode production.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wZumvsqV1w
Video-III
Comprising of few examples of Downstream industries in India, Pakistan and worldwide.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDVfmKsRgOA
PREVIOUS LUCRATIVE INVESTMENT OFFER/ SCHEME OF T.C.C.
The purpose of preparing videos (an extract of 80 videos) of steps wise Copper production by myself, was an attempt to demonstrate and make the Pakistanis understand how the Contractor’s lucrative investment scheme would have caused multi loses to Pakistanis which are once again summarized below.
-Depriving Pakistanis of acquiring a capability of becoming a self sufficient Industrial nation.
-Lose of thousands of Jobs and revenue generated by downstream industries.
- As there is no surface water available in Chagai, Kharan and surroumding areas of Balochistan, so the fresh drinking and agricultural water is obtained from earthen or Karez, underground water channels connected to open well system making the life sustainable. So any misuse of fresh water like scheme proposed by the contractor T.C.C. ,will create a worse draft of fresh water available in the area rapidly, in forth coming years.
- Instead of recycling of fresh water as the reputed mining companies do, T.C.C scheme is to continuously pump the underground fresh water and mixed with the ore to produce 28% Copper concentrate and waste in carrying the slurry bearing copper concentrate via pipe line from Reko Diq to Gawader port, where the ore was to be separated and the polluted water bearing metal tailings and chemicals, will be drained in coastal areas of Gawader port which would result in polluting the coastal waters, destroying marine livelihood resources such as fish and shrimp and the fishing business in forth coming years.
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