“Initial study of maps, toposheets, aerial photographs, and satellite imageries has been completed and the data has been transferred from aerial photographs/satellite imageries onto toposheets,” according to an official report available with APP.
The Rs42.318 million project titled “Exploration and Evaluation of Coal in Nosham and Bahlol Areas, Balochistan” was approved in 2017.
As per the project update, drilling of three boreholes at Nosham area, Barkhan District has been completed to the cumulative depth of 778 metres, where coal seams encountered at different depths.
Making advancement in the project, the experts have also completed geological logging of exploratory borehole/logs, besides concluding geophysical survey (Resistivity) in the project area.
The experts have measured five stratigraphic sections, following which compilation of the field data, analysed and integrated at field labs items to prepare the required geological maps, was initiated.
“The obtained samples have been analysed. The PC-IV has been completed and submitted to the Ministry [Petroleum Division],” the report said
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