EPISODE 3
How to do Frontier Exploration...the discovery story of Reko Diq
Duration - 58 mins
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It is the early 1990's. Alan Moore is a young geologist from Australia, working for BHP at the time. He heads to Pakistan looking for copper deposits in the remote, inhospitable south-western part of the country, an area called the Chagai Hills. Along the way, he meets Saad Husain - a local Pakistani who teams up with Alan and becomes his ever present project manager.
This is their story and how their work led to the discovery of the Reko Diq deposit. However, it is not your typical discovery story. It is much more than that.
This is their story and how their work led to the discovery of the Reko Diq deposit. However, it is not your typical discovery story. It is much more than that.
The Reko Diq deposit is located in the Chagai Hills district in the province of Balouchistan, south-west Pakistan. This triangular wedge sits between Afghanistan to the north and the Iran to the west. When we say the area was inhospitable, this is what we meant.