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1. DETAIL EXPLORATION PLAN FOR BAKHUD PROJECT
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DETAIL EXPLORATION PLAN FOR BAKHUD PROJECT
TRIVENI SINGH
PROJECT GEOLOGIST
Bakhud licensed area is divided have four major blocks; southern, northern, eastern and
western blocks by USSR geologists (image below). These blocks and nearby areas are explored by
them for fluorite in detail. They also did the resource estimation of all these four blocks for different
grade/quality of fluorite. When geologist of Amania Mining Company started working in this project
they found many other economic metals, minerals and elements so they started exploration for other
minerals/metals/elements. As all detailed maps, cross-section, etc. of USSR are not available with
geologist of Amania Mining Company, as most of the data is lost or not available with Afghanistan
Geological Survey (AGS). For this detail exploration and resource estimation must be done again, also
for the other economic minerals/metals/elements is necessary to do detail exploration and resource
estimation for all types of mineralization present in the licensed area.
Geologist of Amania Mining Company prepared a detail exploration plan for all types of
mineralization present in the licensed area. They will start detail exploration activity from southern
block where they are also doing mining of fluorite in small scale. Then continue detail exploration in
eastern to northern and then in western block. At last rest of the area will also explore for all types of
mineralization and resources will be calculated. All activities for detail exploration are described in
table below.
Figure 1: Bakhud Project Licensed Area with Blocks.

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S. No. Activities Description Requirements Starting Date Duration
1
Detail sampling on grid
(25 X 25 mts.) of
southern block
This detail sampling will be of soil and rock chips and
with the results of these samples anomaly map will
prepare for all types of mineralization.
Team of 2 geologists with
2 labours and a 4x4 vehicle
Second last week
of August
2 - 3 months
2 Remote Sensing Study of big area from Landsat8 images.
landsat8 Images
(Already Purchased)
Already Started 2 - 3 months
3
Drilling in
southern block
Drilling in southern block for resource estimation
of all minerals and metals. As soon machines will
arrive can start drilling.
2 - 3 drilling machines
with its complete crew.
Bentonite Clay.
As soon new drilling
machines will
arrive Bakhud
4 - 5 months
4
Resource Estimation
of southern block
During drilling all the map and cross sections will
prepared for all metals and mineral then with that
all calculation for resource estimation will be done.
Depends upon
drilling
1 month
5
Stream Sampling of
complete lisence area
Detail sampling for searching the major source of
all heavy metals/minerals/elements.
This can be done after a month of remote sensing
work and continue with other activities.
Team of 2 geologists with
2 labours and a 4x4 vehicle
After a month of
remote sensing
Depends upon
the size of the
marked area.
6
Detail sampling on grid
(25 X 25 mts.) of
eastern block and all
adjoining areas
This detail sampling will be of soil and rock chips and
with the results of these samples anomaly map will
prepare for all types of mineralization.
Team of 2 geologists with
2 labours and a 4x4 vehicle
second last month
of drilling in
southern block
5 - 6 months
7
Drilling in
eastern block and
adjoining areas
Drilling in eastern block and adjoining areas
for resource estimation of all minerals and metals.
2 - 3 drilling machines
with its complete crew.
Bentonite Clay.
After complition
drilling of southern
block
10 - 12 months
8
Resource Estimation
of eastern block and
adjoining areas
During drilling all the map and cross sections will
prepared for all metals and mineral then with that
all calculation for resource estimation will be done.
Depends upon
drilling
1 month
9
Detail sampling on grid
(25 X 25 mts.) of
nothern block and all
adjoining areas
This detail sampling will be of soil and rock chips and
with the results of these samples anomaly map will
prepare for all types of mineralization.
Team of 2 geologists with
2 labours and a 4x4 vehicle
second last month
of drilling in eastern
block
5 - 6 months
10
Drilling in
nothern block and
adjoining areas
Drilling in nothern block and adjoining areas
for resource estimation of all minerals and metals.
2 - 3 drilling machines
with its complete crew.
Bentonite Clay.
After complition
drilling of eastern
block
8 - 10 months
11
Resource Estimation
of nothern block and
adjoining areas
During drilling all the map and cross sections will
prepared for all metals and mineral then with that
all calculation for resource estimation will be done.
Depends upon
drilling
1 month
12
Detail sampling on grid
(25 X 25 mts.) of
western block and all
adjoining areas
This detail sampling will be of soil and rock chips and
with the results of these samples anomaly map will
prepare for all types of mineralization.
Team of 2 geologists with
2 labours and a 4x4 vehicle
second last month
of drilling in
nothern block
10 - 12 months
13
Drilling in
western block and
adjoining areas
Drilling in western block and adjoining areas
for resource estimation of all minerals and metals.
2 - 3 drilling machines
with its complete crew.
Bentonite Clay.
After complition
drilling of northern
block
13 - 15 months
14
Resource Estimation
of western block and
adjoining areas
During drilling all the map and cross sections will
prepared for all metals and mineral then with that
all calculation for resource estimation will be done.
Depends upon
drilling
1 month
15
Detail sampling on grid
(25 X 25 mts.) in rest of
the licensed area
Area for sampling will be marked on the basis of
remote sensing analysis and stream sampling resuslts
Team of 2 geologists with
2 labours and a 4x4 vehicle
second last month
of drilling in
western block
Depends upon
the size of the
marked area.
16
Drilling in rest of the
licensed area.
Drilling in the rest of the area for resource estimation
of all minerals and metals.
2 - 3 drilling machines
with its complete crew.
Bentonite Clay.
Depends upon
sampling results in
the area.
Depends upon
sampling
results in the
area.
17
Resource Estimation
of all metals and
minerals in rest of the
area.
During drilling all the map and cross sections will
prepared for all metals and mineral then with that
all calculation for resource estimation will be done.
Depends upon
drilling
Depends upon
sampling
results in the
area.

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All activities for detail exploration are completely depends upon the availability of the
required things. Following are some important things which can make delay to start or in progress of
detail exploration:
 Availability of 4X4 Vehicle: For detail sampling it is must that one 4X4 vehicle always
available for team of 2 geologists and goes with them while sampling.
 Availability of Labors: During detail sampling at least 2 labors are required who can do
digging for sample and carry them while traversing.
 Availability of water: For drilling water is must, so it is extremely important to have a proper
supply of water to all drilling machines. Drilling is not possible without water so if it is not
available of have any issues then drilling may stops. In the rock formation there is several
location which are highly fractured, so those places have water loss. These places with
fractures can fix with cement but not always. So we must keep this in mind the water
consumption is not always same and may increase a lot.
 Availability of Drilling machines: At present there is only one drilling machine is available
which is not capable to drill more 3 – 4 meters and maximum 20 – 30 meters in a month. It is
in plan to purchase 2 new drill machines, so it is important that those machines must be
available at site soon. These machines must be capable to drill minimum 10 – 20 meters in a
day otherwise the complete drilling program will delayed because of their slow progress and
other activities will also delayed, as one activity depends upon other activity in detail
exploration.
 Availability of drilling crew: Drilling crew must have good experience in drilling and recording
all data while drilling. In drilling crew there are two most important persons who are driller
and logger. Both of these works can be done by one person also but that person must be
having good experience in this. These persons must be educated so they can easily make all
records while drilling and can understand things easily. If this crew is not available on time
even drilling machine are available it is not possible to drill and it is also must to have some
more skilled persons than machines as when one will go on vacation other can take his place
and continue drilling.
All these above requirements are must for detail exploration work for complete license area of
Bakhud Project.

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For boosting all detail exploration activities so exploration can be completed soon the only
way is to increases the available resources; number of junior geologist, drilling machines and other
technicians. Following are the most important things for completing detail exploration and get the
complete resources soon:
 More Number of Junior Geologists: For completing all detail exploration activities it is most
important to collect all types of geological data as soon as possible. This is only possible when
number of junior geologist will increase. With more junior geologist data collection (grid
sampling, drill core logging, etc.) will be fast and all data can be collected in less time. For data
processing and interpretation two senior geologists are enough.
 More Drilling Machines: For resource estimation drilling is must, so number of drilling
machines can be increased to do resource estimation of all present metals, minerals and
elements in less time. When more drilling machines will work more data can be generated in
less time and can be processed for resource estimation of all present metals, minerals and
elements.
CONCLUSION AND DISCUSSION
Detail exploration is must in Bakhud Project as it was first explored only for fluorite not for
other precious and base metals. All these metals and minerals are much expensive and can
give more revenue than fluorite. So everything must be systematically explored for
exploitation and for not losing anything economical.
As the rock formations have some clay stones which are very soft and limestone which is
highly fractures. Because of these two reasons there are always some issues in drilling
machine; clay stone becomes clay and washed with water, so with this much core is lost and
with high fractures high loss of water. With core loss it is impossible to get any data and as
these clay stones have high alteration and in eastern-block have very good mineralization, so
losing that core means we can’t get information of that mineralized zones. Both of these issues
can be solved with ‘Bentonite Clay’. From this core recovery will increase and water
consumption will decrease. So it is highly recommended to use this bentonite clay for drilling.