High wall mining in Pakistan

1. • A visible, horizontal or inclined coal seam
• Makes rectangular, parallel, unsupported entries,
with unmanned cutter head and coal transport
system.
• Remotely controlled from a mining unit positioned
outside the drive, in front of high wall

2. Cost:
• Clearly cheaper, due to lower establishment and
development costs
• No in-seam support or transport system required.
Flexibility:
• Can economically access smaller blocks of coal and is
more readily able to avoid geological structures
• Mobility of high wall mining equipments makes it easy to
move around a pit, from pit to pit or mine to mine.

3. Reko Diq
• small town in Chagai District, Balochistan, Pakistan.
• Mining Project of US$ 3.3 billion capital investment that
promises to build and operate a world class copper-gold
open-pit mine.

4. • sas

5. • Saindak Copper-Gold Project (SCGP)
• Pakistan and China signed a formal contract worth $350
million for development of Saindak Copper-Gold mine.
• The mine was leased for a 10-year period (16-Oct-2002
to 15-Oct-2012) to Metallurgical Corporation of China
Ltd. (MCC)
• The agreement further extended for a period of 05 years
i.e. up to 15-Oct-2017