Gold Exploration in Pakistan

Project Introduction

The occurrence of placer gold in northern Pakistan has been well known for many decades, but the source bedrocks and the processes involved in the formation of gold in these areas are still uncertain. Gold washing has been a practice for a long period along the Indus and Gilgit Rivers in northern areas of Pakistan. These gold washers use primitive tools for the extraction of gold from the Indus sands. They pan stream sediments and add mercury for the extraction of gold causing pollution.

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Publications

  • Krupnik, D., Khan, S. D. 2020. High-Resolution Hyperspectral Mineral Mapping: Case Studies in the Edwards Limestone, Texas, USA and Sulfide-Rich Quartz Veins from the Ladakh Batholith, Northern Pakistan. Minerals 10, no. 11: 967. https://doi.org/10.3390/min10110967

  • Khan, S. D., Okyay, U., Ahmad, L. Shah, M. T., 2018. Characterization of Gold Mineralization in Northern Pakistan Using Imaging Spectroscopy. Photogrammetric Engineering & Remote Sensing, 84(7), 425-434. https://doi.org/10.14358/PERS.84.7.425

  • Ahmad, L., Khan, S. D., Shah, M. T., Jehan, N., 2018. Gold mineralization in Bubin area, Gilgit-Baltistan, Northern Areas, Pakistan, Arabian Journal of Geosciences, 11: 18. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12517-017-3354-9

  • Ahmad, L., Shah, M. T., Khan, S. D., 2016. Reflectance spectroscopy and remote sensing data for finding sulfide-bearing alteration zones and mapping geology in Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan. Earth Science Informatics, 9(1), 113-121. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12145-015-0239-x

  • Biber, K., Khan, S. D., Shah, M. T., 2015. The source and fate of mercury in Hunza River basin, Northern Areas, Pakistan. Hydrological Processes, 29, 579-587. https://doi.org/10.1002/hyp.10175