It briefly describe about the mineral resources of Bangladesh. It has been prepared to summarize all of the mineral resources of Bangladesh just in one slide.Here, information are collected from several sources. It has been made only for educational purpose. Part-2 will be published soon.

1. SEPTEMBER
2018
THE MINERAL RESOURCES AND IT’S
INFLUENCE ON SUSTAINABLE
DEVELOPMENT OF BANGLADESH
PART-1
BY
MD. NUMAN HOSSAIN
REG.2013336041
DEPT. OF PME,SUST

2. Mineral resources of Bangladesh :
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What are mineral resources?
• Minerals are defined as homogenous, naturally occurring, inorganic
solids, each having their own characteristic chemical composition and
highly ordered atomic structure.
• In other words, Mineral resources are essential natural occurring
materials or commodity found on or in the earth in such small amounts
which are mined for their potential uses or their intrinsic values.
Minerals resources come in different shapes and sizes and are divided
into two major categories such as Metallic and Nonmetallic mineral
resources. Examples of Metallic resources include minerals like Gold,
Silver, Tin, Copper, Lead, Zinc, Iron, Nickel, Chromium, and Aluminium .
Examples of Nonmetallic resources include minerals like sand, gravel,
gypsum, halite, Uranium, and dimension stone. (*5)

3. Mineral resources of
Bangladesh :
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As a relatively small developing country, it
has a number of different mineral resources :
• Natural gas
• Coal
• Mineral Oil
• Peat
• Hard rock
• Limestone
• China clay (White clay)
• Glass Sand (Silica sand)
• Mineral sand
• Heavy minerals
• salt

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MINERAL RESOURCES OF BANGLADESH

5. Mineral Resources of Bangladesh :
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Natural Gas :
• As a young deltaic sedimentary basin Bangladesh is
moderately enriched with natural gas .
• The first gas field was discovered - SYLHET-2 by PPL .
• According to PETROBANGLA , this country has 27 gas
fields so far .
• Bibiyana is the largest gas field of Bangladesh. and Bhola
is the last discovered gas field.(Table-1)
• Total discovered GIIP =39 TCF , where proved =21.2 TCF
,proved + probable=27.14 TCF, proved + proven + possible
=31.31 TCF,
• Cumulative production(Dec.2017)=15.22 TCF and
remaining reserve (as of Jan.2018)=11.91 TCF.

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Table -1 : Discovered gas fields of Bangladesh
Operati
-ng
compa-
ny
Field Location Discovery
year
1982Producti
on
commence
Daily
Production (mmscf)
(16.08.18-
ptrobangla)
No. of well Producing
well
Cumulative
Production(Bcf)
Dec’2017
B Saldanadi Kashba ,B.bariya. 1996 1998 4.5 04 01 90.13
A Fenchuganj Kulaura,moulovibazar 1986 2004 10.3 05 02 154.55
P Shahbazpur Burhanuddin,Bhola 1993 2009 62 04 03 39.03
E Semutang Manikchari,Khagrachori 1997 2011 0.9 06 02 12.64
X Srikail Muradnagar, Comilla 2012 2013 32.2 04 03 68.02
Sundalpur Companiganj,Noakhali 2012 2012 6.84 03 01 9.96
Begumganj Begumganj,Noakhali 1977 Yet to be started
00 01 00 .88
Rupganj Rupganj,Narayanganj 2014 Yet to be started
00 01 00 .68
B Titas Brahmanbariya 1962 1968 522.5 27 26 4593.5 (till
09.08.18)
G Hobiganj Madhabpur,Hobiganj 1963 1968 235.1 11 07 2391.35
F Bakhrabad Muradnagar,Comilla 1969 1984 28.9 10 06 810.42
C Narsingdi Shibpur,Narsingdi 1990 1996 27.11 02 02 196.72
L Megna Brahmanbariya 1990 1997 12.5 01 01 67.45
Kamta Kaliganj,Gazipur 1984 0 01 closed 21.10

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Table -1 : Discovered gas fields of Bangladesh
Operat-
ing
compa-
ny
Field Location Discovery
year
Production
commence
Daily
production(MM
scf)
No. of wells Producing
wells
Cumulative
Production
(BCF)
Sangu Chittagong 1996 1998 00 02 suspended -
S Sylhet Chiknagool,Sylhet 1955 1961 4.4 06 02 206.56(31 may’15)
G Kailashtila Golapganj,Sylhet 1961 1983 68 06 04 645.8
F Rashidpur Bahubal,Hobiganj 1960 1993 52.3 05 554.71
L Beanibazar Beanibazar,Sylhet 1979 1999 9.0 02 02 82.32
Chatak Dowarabazar,Sunamganj 1959 1960 04 01 abandoned 26.46
Chev Jalalabad Jalalabad,Sylhet 1989 1999 244.3 - 07 -
-ron Moulovibazar Moulovibazar 1999 2005 32 - 06 -
Bibiyana Karimpur,Sylhet 1998 2014 1341.2 12 - -
Tallow Bangora 50 km east of
Dhaka
2004 May 9,
2006
83.5 - 05 -
Kutubdiya Kutubdiya 1977 - 00 - - -
Feni Feni 1981 - 62 - - -
Mubarakpur Mubarakpur,Pabna 2018 - 00
- Bhola Bheduria ,Bhola 2018 - 00 - - -

8. Mineral Resources of Bangladesh :
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Natural Gas
• NG of Bangladesh contains ranges of Methane from
93%(Beanibazar) to 98%(Rashidpur) .
• This country’s gas is well known for it’s purity and free from
poisonous Hydrogen Sulfide (i.e. sweet gas).
• Natural gas in Bangladesh is used in fertilizer production,
electricity generation, in industrial sectors (such as cement
, fiber , boiler , furnaces , metal processing etc. industry) ,
in domestic and commercial sectors , NG also used as
Automobile / Vehicle fuel etc.
• More than 90 % of country’s energy need is met by natual
gas .
• The demand of NG is increasing day by day and so to cope
with the future demand attention should be taken to
discover new reserve of NG on the mainland as well as
offshore.

9. Mineral Resources of Bangladesh :
9 Barapukuriya coal mine,Bangladesh
Coal:
• There are 5 major coal fields in Bangladesh which were
discovered at the end of 2012 .
• These are : Barapukuriya, Khalashpir, Dighipara, Phulbari
and Jamalganj.
• Total coal reserve in first four coal fields is 2250 million
tones and in jamalganj this value is about 1050 MT
(table).
• The quality of coal is good ( highly bituminous with low
sulpher content) and these are Permian in age.

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TABLE: COAL FIELD & RESERVES OF BANGLADESH(Source :Geological survey of Bangladesh , AEC)
Coal Field
(District)
Year of
Discovery
Discovered
By
Depth of
Coal seam
No of coal
seam
Reserve
(MT)
Remarks
Barapukuria
(Dinajpur)
1985 GSB* 18 -5106 6 390 Underground mining
processing since 2005
Phulbari
(Dinajpur)
1997 BHP* 150-240 2 572 Proposed for open pit
mining
Khalashpir
(Rangpur)
1989 GSB 257-480 8 685 Feasibility study is done
Dighipara
(Dinajpur)
1995 GSB 328-407 7 600 A Korean syndicate
approached for
development
Jamalganj
(Jaipurhat)
1962 SVOC* 640-1158 7 1053 Not considered as reserve
because economically not
feasible

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Coal:
• Among the coal fields ,first developed coal field of
Bangladesh is Barapukuriya which has production
capacity 1 million MT annually.
• Multi-slice long wall top coal caving underground
mining method is used for extraction of coal from
Barakuriya.
• The small scale production of coal from this field
started from 2002 and commercial production of coal
started in 2005.
• Use of coal: 65% of the production is used in 250 MW
coal fired power station and remaining 35% is used in
brick fields and other domestic purposes. In future,
the capacity of the power plant will be increased to
375 MW to ensure 100% utilization of coal to be
produce from Barapukuria Coal

12. Mineral Resources of Bangladesh :
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Oil
• The Horipur oil field located in Sylhet was only commercial oil
deposit of Bangladesh
• It was discovered in December,1986.
• It’s probable reserves was 27 million barrels and recoverable
reserve was 6 million barrels.
• The oil extraction was started from a single well Horipur-1 in
1987 with initial production rate 450 barrel per day .
• Production was suspended in mid 1994 because of decline of oil
flow and excessive water output.

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Mineral Resources of Bangladesh :
• Hard Rock
• Bangladesh has a significant deposit of hard rock which used as construction material.
• Hard rocks include : granite , granodiorite, quartz diorite, gneiss of Precambrian age has been
discovered by Geologic Survey of Bangladesh.
• the deposits of hard rock was discovered at 136 meter depth at Madhapara, Parbatipur of
Dinajpur district in 1974.
• The development of mining in Madhapara and commercial production was started from 2006.
• Mine Reserve:174 Million Metric Tons (Based on 10 borehole data) and Recoverable
Reserve:73 Million Metric Tons (42% of the Reserve)
• Design Production Capacity:1.65 Million Metric Tons per Years ( 5,500 Metric Tons per day) and
Design Life :48 years which will be extended up to 70 years.
• Method of Extraction:Room & Pillar Sub-Level Stoping Method , Dimension of Stopes :230m x
20m x 60m, Mode of Entry:By two vertical shaft (Cage Shaft and Skip Shaft).
• The uses of these hard rocks are construction of building ,roads , bridge and highways etc.

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Peat :
• In southern and northeast part of country peat deposit of Quaternary age is found.
• total reserve of more than 170 million ton.
• Calorific value of peat ranges from 6000 to 7000 BTU/lb.
• Peat can be used as fuel for domestic purposes, brick manufacturing, boilers etc.
• The country’s peat deposit is shown in the table(next slide)

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Table: Peat deposits of Bangladesh (*4) :
Deposits Depth (m) Thickness
(m)
Area (sq
km)
Reserve
(m ton)
Carbon
content
(%)
Ash
content
(%)
Moisture
content
(%)
Volatile
content
(%)
Bagiachan
da
0-4 0.6-3.3 500 150 24 16.63 17.1 42.30
Kolamouza 0.04-2.5 0.2-4 25 8 29.2 24.80 13.70 42.30
Maulvi
Bazar
0-1.3 1.6 9.6 3 17.83 36.07 15.52 30.58
Chalan
Beel
0.5-4.75 3.35-7.65 - 6.2 14.80 46.13 8.53 54.13
Charkai 0-0.8 0.13-2.6 11 3 18.32 17.6 27.77 ---
Pagla --- --- --- 13.2 16.37 25.9 37.7 43.3

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Limestone :
• Limestone deposit of Eocene and Pliocene age is founded on
northern , northwestern and southeastern part of Bangladesh .
• Total estimated reserve is around 300 MT ,having marker value US
$5000 million.
• First limestone reserve was found in Joypurhat and the limestone of
this deposit was started to extract from 1978.
• The target of extraction was 1 MT per year but it is possible to
extract 2 MT per year (Hussain) which can help to meet country’s
demand 4 MT per year.
• the quality of limestone of Bangladesh is good and used as a raw
material for production of cement .

17. Mineral Resources of Bangladesh
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Limestone
• Other uses includes in architectural construction
(pyramids , tazmahal etc)
• raw material for the manufacture of quicklime (calcium
oxide), slaked lime (calcium hydroxide) and mortar.
• Pulverized limestone is used as a soil conditioner to
neutralize acidic soils
• use as aggregate—the solid base for many roads as well
as in asphalt concrete.
• it can suppress methane explosions in underground coal
mines

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Table: Limestone founded area of Bangladesh (*4):
No District Arera
01. Sunamgong Takerhat
02. Sunamgong Vangarhat
03. Syllet Lalghat
04. Bogra Jamalgong
05. Joypurhat
06. Cox’es Bazar Sentmartin

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China clay(White clay) :
• The deposit of China clay(white clay) of plio-Pleistocene and
cretaceous age was founded on northern and northwestern part
of Bangladesh ( including Bijoypur and Gopalpur area of
Netrokona district, Nalitabari of Sherpur district, Haidgaon of
Chittagong district and Baitul Izzat of Satkania upazila,
Chittagong district. Besides there are subsurface deposits of
white clay' in Maddhyapara, )
• The estimated reserve is 43 MT.
• White clay is used for ceramics , sanitaryware , insulators and
cement manufacture .
• Other uses of white clay include the manufacture of paper ,
rubber and plastic

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Glass Sand(Silica Sand) :
• Total estimated reserve of glass sand of Bangladesh around
117 MT ,having market value US $13950.
• Glass sand deposit of cretaceous age are found in area of
Balijuri (0.64 million ton), Shahjibazar (1.41 million ton) and
Chauddagram (0.285 million ton) at or near the surface,
Maddhyapara (17.25 million ton) and Barapukuria (90.0 million
ton) below the surface.
• Glass sands consist of fine to medium, yellow to grey quartz.
• Glass sand is of medium grade in quality is used for colouriess
glassware, glass sheet, bottle, window glass and so on.

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Mineral Sand :
• Beach sand of Cox’s Bazar contains several tens million tons of mineral sands
• 20 MT of beach sand contains around 4 MT of mineral sand (BAEC 1994)
• Mineral sand of Bangladesh contains Heavy minerals such as Zircon, Rutile , Ilmenite ,
Leucoxene, Kyanite , Magnetite , Monazite, Garnet etc.
• The estimated reserve of Zircon 158117 tons, rutile 70274 tons,
ilmenite1025558tons,leucoxene 96709 tons, kyanite 90746 tons , garnet 222761
tons ,magnetite 80599 tons, monazite 17352 tons.
• The total market value of heavy minerals of Bangladesh approximately US $50 million.
• Where beach sand of Australia contains 5% of mineral , there beach sand of
Bangladesh contains 15 – 23% of mineral i.e. very large amount comparing others .
• So, proper steps should be taken to get benefits from this valuable resources.

22. Mineral Resources of Bangladesh :
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Salt :
• salt is one kind of mineral resource but for our country it
could not be called mineral resource.
• Main source of salt in our country is sea water. For this
reason it could not be called mineral resource in our
country. (*4)

23. Mineral resources of Bangladesh along with their market price and reserves (*1)
Mineral resources reserves Value in uss
$,million
remarks
coal 1753 MT (proven) 89760 Mining development of barapukuria is ongoing and commercial
extraction started since 2006
Peat 17055 MT 5122 Extraction of peat is ongoing from Kola Mouja and is being used
for various purpose
Limestone 270+29 MT 5000 Extracted mainly from Takerghat and is being used in chhatak
cement factory
China clay 42.52 MT 6375 Extracted mainly from Bijaypur area and used in making
ceramics,tiles and so on.
Mineral sand Ave. presence in
beach sand 23%
- An Australian company is associated for exploration and
extraction of mineral sand from the beach sand of Cox’s Bazar
Glass sand 117 MT 13950 Is being extracted mainly from Chaddagram and is used in glass
making industries to prepare glass wares and glass sheets
Hard rock Huge reserves 2849 Is commercially extracted from Madhapara and used for several
purposes
Construction
materials
10.32 MT 95 Constructed materials are being used from these places
,especially from Bholaganj area
Natural gas 12 TCF(proved) - The only mineral commodity contributing significantly to the

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