Investment & extraction

Pakistan Minerals and Mining

Pakistan's minerals sector has spent years being discussed as a geological prospect rather than a producing industry, and the government has set a date of ambition for changing that. The Pakistan Minerals Investment Forum in Islamabad, the Reko Diq copper-gold project in Chagai, Barrick Mining's 50 per cent stake, the federal and provincial incentive packages and the exploration licences awarded across Balochistan all belong to the same argument: that Pakistan should stop exporting raw ore and build the processing, refining and manufacturing industries that capture the value. This hub follows that argument from the forum's opening day through the commitments made on its final day, and the security, financing and geological questions that decide whether any of it is built.