This document summarizes the economic potential of Malakand Division in northern Pakistan. It outlines significant mineral resources in the region including marble, granite, chromite, gemstones, and metallic minerals. Marble resources alone are estimated at over 3 billion tons across Buner, Swat, Mohmand, and Chitral. Establishing marble, granite, and chromite processing industries could generate investment and revenue. The region also contains valuable gemstones like emeralds, topaz, and corundum. Recent exploration has identified promising targets for gold and other metals. Overall, the document presents Malakand Division as having abundant mineral wealth that could be harnessed for economic growth.

1. ECONOMIC POTENTIALS OF
MALAKAND DIVISION
BY: UBAIDULLAH SHALMANI
SESSION (2014-2018)
TO: SIR TANVIR AHMAD
DEPARTMENT OF GEOLOGY
UNIVERSITY OF MALAKAND

2. ECONOMIC POTENTIAL:
• Economic potential refers to the potential of a region, nation,
or corporation for economic development and growth and
creation of surplus value.
OR
• "The total capacity of a nation to produce goods and services."

3. ECONOMIC POTENTIAL:
• Malakand Division is richly endowed with diversity of
mineral deposits and different economic rocks.

4. MARBLE RESOURCES:
• The estimated resource of marble in KPK is about 3.0 billion
Tons.
• but so far no systematic exploratory coverage has been
extended.
• The potential marble bearing areas having variety of
metamorphosed marble occurrences of different colors and
shades are being mined in prominent areas of Buner, Swat,
Mohmand, Bajaur agency, Mulagori and Chitral.

5. • There is an extensive marble belt of Mardan-Buner with vast
potential of more than 1000 million Tons.
• Other scattered occurrences of marble are those of Swat and
Kohistan regions and southern part of KPK, having a potential
of about 800 million Ton.
• The occurrence of marble in Bajaur, Mohmand and Warsak
areas of FATA are in addition to these marble resources.
MARBLE RESOURCES:

6. MARBLE AND GRANITE RESOURCES:
Marble and granite tiles of Buner, Mardan, Chitral, Hazara and
Kohistan regions.
At least 10 units of 200,000 tons per year capacity each
involving about Rs. 30 million investments can be established
for utilization of the marble and granite resources of these areas.

7. MARBLE AND GRANITE RESOURCES:
• Kohistan Batholith in Dir, Swat and Kohistan, having suitable
outcrops (1000 million tons) along the main roads, can be leased
for extraction of granite blocks.
• About 1000 million tons of granitoids in Swat, Buner and
Hazara regions can be utilized for further development and
exploitation.

8. CHROMITE RESOURCES:
• Establishment of chemical and refractory grade industry
utilizing the chromite resources of Malakand and Kohsitan
areas.
• This chromite may also be utilized for manufacturing of
chrome magnesite bricks by blending.
• A refractory unit of 20,000 tons per year capacity can be
designed for the manufacturing of chrome magnesite bricks.

9. • Mafic and ultramafic rocks, also used as dimension stone,
outcrops in Chitral, Swat and Kohistan, having a potential of
more than a 500 million Ton.
• The accessible outcrops of green metabasites and dark colored
diabase dikes in Chitral, Dir-Timergara, Swat and Kohistan have
a potential of about 1000, million Ton.

10. GEMSTONE RESOURCES:
• Pegmatite-hosted beryl, tourmaline, topaz, garnet, occurring
within a linear domain of about 30 sq-km between Garram
Chishma and Kafirristan areas of Chitral, besides other
occurrences in Drosh and possibly emerald mineralization in the
Shishi valley.
• Corundum/ruby occurrences in Timergara and Swat area, along
a geological domain of amphibolites, being a major belt should
have vast potential for similar gemstones.

11. GEMSTONE RESOURCES:
• The worldwide known famous Swat emeralds, found along a
linear belt of more than 50 sq-km, from Shangla-AIpuri in the
east to Shewa-Shamozai in the west.
• Further extension of the same belt is reported from Bajaur and
Mohmand Agencies in the west.
• The inferred/proven emerald deposits of Mingora, Gujar Killi
and Shamozai have the estimated resource of over 50 million
carats.

12. GEMSTONE RESOURCES:
• The major emeralds and other gemstone deposits of Mingora,
Gujar Killi and Shamozai emeralds in Swat, Katlang Topaz have
been reserved for sizeable investment under 10 years mining
leases in each case, expecting the financial revenue receipts of
over Rs.500 million to the government exchequers.

13. METALLIC MINERALS RESOURCES:
• The Exploration Promotion Division of DGMM (Directorate
General of Migration Management) has worked on various
localized mineral occurrences including Malakand and Kohistan
chromite; Besham lead-zinc; copper in Drosh and Dir; tungsten,
antimony, iron, and other exploration targets of gold and metals
identified in Chitral and Malakand regions.

14. METALLIC MINERALS RESOURCES:
• The government of KPK has now completed a first pass
exploration coverage of northern part of KPK over an area of
40,000 km2, which resulted into generation of expanded
database for follow-up exploration of selected targets of gold
and related metallic minerals of the region;
• Fourteen target areas over an accumulated area of 3000 km2 in
Darosh-Chitral, Dir, Timergara and Kohistan areas.

15. METALLIC MINERALS RESOURCES:
• Nine selected targets of gold, lead, zinc and other base metals
over an accumulated area of 1300km2 along the geological
domains of Indian plate in Swat and lower Hazara.

16. THANKS