The Ministry of Mines and Petroleum (MoMP) has started tackling issues around Hajigak iron ore mine which has been standing idle despite the awarding of a contract six years ago. At the time, an Indian consortium and a Canadian company won the tender to mine Hajigak but the contract was never signed. Hajigak Mine has the largest …
With a 38 million population, Afghanistan is one of the prominent countries which are subject to social, political, economic, and cultural vulnerabilities due to ongoing 40-years of civil war and external …
The article says a SAIL-led consortium has bid for all four Hajigak iron ore blocks, and that the Karzai-led government is giving preference to companies that could set up a steel plant. The ...
The SAIL-led consortium that bagged mining rights for three iron ore mines at Hajigak will sign the final agreement with the Afghanistan government soon 31 Jan, 2012, 08:49 PM IST SAIL upbeat on winning the iron-ore mining contract from Afghanistan
Aynak and Hajigak represent two large potential investments by Afghan and global standards. The mine developments each would require $2-3 billion in investments, and each mine would also require investment in ancillary infrastructure in the order of $2-3 billion or more. A low-impact scenario, based on prevailing market conditions, projects ...
The story of how "the vast scale of Afghanistan's mineral wealth was discovered by a small team of Pentagon officials and American geologists" by the Pulitzer prize-winning journalist James ...
The Hajigak prospect subarea (Fig.1) contains the limestone deposit, content of (93.66 - 97.31) Vol % [6]. 1.3. STUDY AREA The study area located on the western part of the Hajigak iron ore deposit, which situated in mountainous of the Bamyan province, and 130km west of Kabul, Afghanistan [7]. It has the biggest untapped iron ore deposits of ...
The Hajigak iron deposit is hosted by the Upper Proterozoic Awband Formation that, together with the underlying Kab Formation, constitutes the Qala Series, a sequence of …
The Hajigak iron deposits are located in Bamyan province, 130 km west of Kabul in Afghanistan (#Location: 34° 40' 6"N, 68° 3' 25"E). Afghanistan lies at the junction between the Indo-Australian and Asian crustal plates and is composed of a series of terranes that separated from Gondwana before being accreted onto the southern margin of the …
China's state-owned National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) signed a $700 million oil exploration contract with the Afghan government last week, the first foreign company to do so in many decades.
... According to mineralogical compositions, the main ore minerals are magnetite, hematite or martite and goethite [12], the minor ore minerals are pyrite, …
The Hajigak iron ore mine is situated in the mountainous province of Bamyan with area covering 35 km 2 west of the capital Kabul with altitude more than 3700 meters above sea-level. Peters (2007) stated that …
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In 2001, an Indian consortium, led by the Steel Authority of India Limited, won the extraction rights in three out of four blocks in the province's Hajigak mines – the largest untapped iron ...
A group of Indian companies and Canada's Kilo Goldmines Ltd. (CVE:KGL) have been awarded the contract to mine the Hajigak iron ore deposit in Afghanistan.
The Hajigak (2,713 meters) and Unai (3,350 meters) lead into the eastern Hazarajat and Bamiyan Valley. The passes of the Paropamisus in the west are relatively low, averaging around 600 meters; the most well-known of these is the Sabzak between Herat and Badghis provinces, which links the western and northwestern parts of …
De Lapparent ( 1961) concluded that the Haji-Gak iron deposit was formed by the leaching of silicic ferrous iron formation producing a secondary concentration of …
With 22 companies, including two Indian consortia, bidding for an integrated project to develop the two-billion tonnes Hajigak iron ore deposit in Bamiyan province of central Afghanistan, Wahidullah Shahrani, the country's minister of mines, spoke about the giant project to Ajai Shukla in Kabul.
The Hajigak deposit trends north-east–south-west for . about 9 km and is made up of 16 separate ore bodies, each up to 3 km in length. Figure 9. shows the locatio n of Hajigak iron Mine in .
The Hajigak mines hold an estimated reserve of 1.8 billion tonnes of iron ore. The "hands-on" interest shown by the new Foreign Secretary, Ranjan Mathai, in the progress in the bidding process ...
Afghanistan's Economic Transition in the Making?:Community Perspectives from Aynak and Hajigak Mining Sites
The Hajigak deposits are estimated to hold 1.8 billion tonnes of high-grade iron ore, with 62% ferrous content. Typically, higher the ferrous content, the purer the ore. According to a statement by Afghanistan Mines Minister Wahidullah Shahrani, "AFISCO brings a tremendous array of expertise, technical, financial and physical resources, …
"The Hajigak project would be shipping part of the iron ore through Chinese railway line which is being laid for their Aynak copper project. India is one of the largest exporter of iron ore to China. And we are discussing with the government of India at the highest level to develop jointly a special rail corridor 600 km long that will join ...
Data map of prospectingmapping on iron deposit Hajigak. Scale 1:10 000 1965 Map 600 3.06 Geologicalprospecting plan of western area of Hajigak ironore deposit. Scale 1:2 000 1965 Graphic 600 3.07 Hajigak deposit, Western area. Geological crosssections along prospecting lines 1 and 2.
Besides ADB's ambitious agenda, the Indian consortium at Hajigak has just announced plans to build a separate rail link through the centre of the country to the Iranian coast. And a high-profile side deal in the Aynak Chinese concession agreement - still unpublished since it was signed in 2008 - promises to construct a railroad line from the ...
A second substantial ore site revealed by the Soviet surveys and subsequently confirmed was the Hajigak iron deposit in the Hindu Kush mountain range …
Hajigak iron ore site, located in Bamiyan and Maidan Wardak provinces of Afghanistan's central highlands is another important area which has charmed many investors and people. At the time of writing the contract for this mine is still in the process of negotiation with two big international investors, the Canada based Kilo Gold [viii] …
The bid submitted by AFISCO to the Afghanistan government proposes development of the Hajigak iron ore deposits in the Bamian province to carry out commercial production of iron-ore. The consortium also proposed setting up of a 6.12 million tonnes per annum (MTPA) steel plant in Afghanistan in two phases. The plan envisages …