Exploitation of country’s potentials in minerals govt’s priority: PM

ISLAMABAD  – Prime Minister Imran Khan Monday while di­recting the authorities concerned for early final­ization of Mineral Development Program, said it was among government’s priorities to exploit the country’s immense potential in minerals sector. 

He chairing a high-level meeting on Mineral De­velopment Program said the country had huge scope for investment in minerals sector. 

The government is also in the process of formu­lating a strategy to benefit from the huge mineral reserves in the country. 

Federal ministers Asad Umar and Hammad Azhar and senior federal and provincial officers concerning the mineral sector attended the meet­ing. The meeting was told that the Program was being designed keeping in view the problems con­fronting the sector, legal and administrative struc­ture, and investment opportunities in the sector. 

During the briefing on mineral reserves, the par­ticipants were told that the country was rich with minerals including rock salt, limestone, gypsum, China clay, silica sand, chromite, copper, gold, sil­ver, iron, lead and zinc. 

Moreover, the meeting was also apprised of re­serves of marble, granite, sandstone, sapphire, em­erald, ruby, tourmaline and aqua marine stones. 

It was told that a strategy was in the final stage to attract investment on iron reserves in Chiniot and Kalabagh. The Mineral development Program would also feature the measures

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