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Subject,---Requested of publication
Dear Sir,
Due respect, I beg to forwarded one of my article for the publication in u paper as u
earlier time as possible
So , I shall be grateful ,if u honor would kindly make arrange to published it , in u
esteem /letters column/others column ic minerals resources ,technology ,as u like ., if any
financial offer please sent to me .
Thanking you,
Iftekhar u chowdhury ,
Tek para, ,Cox:sbazar.
Potential of mineral along the bay of Bengal ,Bangladesh.
Exploitation of mineral resources is essential for the sustainable development of the
country. We have many natural resources ,like gas, coal ,glass sand, limestone ,clay,
silica ,and beach sand Minerals, others ,It is vital role play for the economic development
of the country..Mineral sand deposit along the coastal belt of Bangladesh ,constitute a
potential resources of the country.The beach sand minerals contains Rutile, ,which
approximately 95%0f titanium dioxide, extensively used in pigment industries, welding
electrodes industries, now it is very demand in the industries, and many consumers in the
domestic & international market ,Zircon, its chemical composition ,zirconium silicate

2. ,very much demand in the markets ,it used in the ceramic industries, steel mill
,refractory,&foundries,
Applied in t.v plate it is now very demand in our country .Magnetite, as a iron ores used in
ferrite rods, red oxide and black oxide. ,and Ilemenit e,also contains titanium dioxide it is
used in the for the shielding of radiation ,and extensively used in the shielding block of
nuclear power plant , Garnet, monazite ,rare earth radioactive minerals ,which contains
thorium which used in nuclear technology ,garnet is used in emery cloth, papers and
grinding stone, also in jewels in watches. Kyanite, as a sources of aluminium,& Leucoxene,
as a substitute of rutile, Beach sand containing potentially valuable minerals were
discovered in 1961 during a geological survey for radioactive minerals in cox;sbazar beach
area .Atomic energy commission have been engaged for its exploration & exploitation of
these minerals ,according to baec data there is 4.4 million tons of heavy minerals on 17 nos
deposits area so far . on which potential economic minerals is 1.76 million tons ,and its
estimate zircon 1.58,117 tons,Rutile reserve 71thousand tons ,Ilmenite,1,025,558 tons
Magnetite,81.00 thousand tons ,
Garnet ,222,761,tons,Monazite 17,352,tons , Recently beach sand minerals being
consumed and demand rolling mill in Bangladesh ,sanitary ware factory ,papers mill
,match factory ,and now demand many factories it is also possible potential for nuclear
power plant projects . .BAEC requested the govt of Australia to help so they extended
assistances under Colombo plan to study feasibility of the economical ,so pilot plant were
build at cox;sbazar in the year 1975.they supplied all equipment ,this worked done by one
Australian consultant firm, MDL, Mr Macdonald is head of the consultant ,in the years
1976,. Mr Macdonald has submitted & recommended added some additional equipment for
the plant one report for preliminary feasibility of the projects Then afterwards another
consultant of Australia firm an Australian Minerals Development laboratory
(,AMDEL)also study with bulk sample for the feasibility in the year 1977, they also has
submitted one report in the meantime pilot plant has successfully Physical separated in
commercial grade type minerals ilemenite ,Magnetite, garnet, zircon and rutile through
zircon & Rutile is not yet in target grade ..anyhow in the years 1994-1998 one BMRE
project has been undertaken ,some new equipment has been procured and installed at the
pilot plant projects .pilot plant studies only develop flow sheets for physical separation of
constituent economic minerals and to find out working economic involved therein which
would in turn be in commercial plant to be set up in future .There is many commercial
projects recovery of these kind of minerals in Australia ,south Africa, brazil, India, sri
lanka ,Malaysian ,china,& many countries of the world, so what is problem of our
country ? But in the yrs 1985 Japan aid organization wiliness to assistances / grant this
project, next Australian Titanium resources , has agreed to finances this projects in the
1990, but it was not in materialized for some our bureaucratic system Through it is
small deposit to compare to other countries of the world , we have undertaken imitative
works to find out additional reserve and what is news of existing reserve present
position ?The reserve situation must be resolved ,as it is prior commitment ,ores reserve
estimation must be on adequate data, and cost estimation ,as our country has no expert in
the field of beach sand mining project , now most the deposit broken, or going salt field,
back dune deposit covered with living house , so again I have put some suggestion 1, An
investigation must be determine economically viable2, .Entire evaluation data of
exploration ? 3, Pilot plant operation must be accuracy data of quality of recovery %,it

3. processing parameter ,so that is production must be market grade,4, The existing deposit
area should be environmental impact analysis, with most modern equipment ,6 , the pilot
plant has designed for the small scale production for beach sand mining industries ,I think
it require additional production of Ilemenite ,/Magnitite ,zircon ,rutile ,garnet ,monazite,
and chalked out plan for the ,rechecking existing reserve ,weather it is commercial
feasible ? it is must be take steps for the right decisions , it is long time ago ,no further
delayed, but for the nuclear power generation in Bangladesh ,then it should be too
essential for production of above minerals ,ensure the shielding of radiation works of the
nuclear plant . of our country . save some foreign exchanges ..
Further read Brochure of BSEC ,cox;sbazar,BAEC.
from MDL has submitted an report ,I by Iftekhar uddin chowdhury ,
Tek para, Cox;sbazar.& Former senior officer of Bangladesh Atomic energy commission
e.mail ,uddinchy08@gmail.com,mobile 8801710840305.