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Marble City at LORALAI will produce over 10,000 jobs

The marble city being established at Loralai which is Balochistan to process marble and granite, is anticipated to produce more than 10,000 immediate and oblique jobs. The concerned government bodies, as part of its measures to boost production of minerals from Balochistan, would also introduce one common facility and training center.

Official sources on Sunday said that Pakistan Stone Development Company (PASDEC) has introduced mechanized quarrying of marble/limestone in Balochistan and also established one machinery pool and five quarrying projects in collaboration with private lease-holders.

By Giving details about mineral research projects launched in Balochistan province during last five years, the sources said these included public sector project namely "Balochistan Copper-Gold project at RekoDiK" , District Chagi while about 95 prospecting/exploration licenses were granted in private sector for different minerals. During the period, the sources said Geological Survey of Pakistan carried out geological mmineral investigation in different districts of Balochistan. Moreover, new mineral occurrences of copper, manganese and iron have been pointed out in Lasbela, Khuzdar and Chagi areas. These mineral showings require detailed discovery for proving as economic deposits while Geo-Science Advance Research Lab, Islamabad was upgraded through procurement of scientific equipments.

Furthermore, the Federal and Provincial Governments took various measures to improve mineral production in Balochistan which included upgradation of National Mineral Policy to facilitate investment in organic mineral sector and enhance its international competition with opinion of all provinces and approval of Council of Common Interests (CCI).

Pakistan Mineral Development Corporation (PMDC) consistently carried out development works to maintain and enhance coal production. The Corporation is also working in a combined project with a Chinese Company for exploitation of Zinc Deposit in District Lasbela, which is presently under trial production. Additionally, the sources said a Marble City has been founded to introduce modern mechanised mining, cutting and polishing of stone of international standard.