Asian Seismic and Geophysical Repositories

ASGR

Indonesia - Pakistan – Sri Lanka - Turkey

AMCO-MRC

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Mineral Security Program

Priority Focus: Digital Mining & Physical Infrastructure

"Role of Technology in Mining is Changing"

New Oil: Critical Minerals

New Pipelines: Supply Chains

Mine-to-Market

Out of 49 Nonfuel Minerals 

Global Market

US $ 2 Trillion+

PAK ASGR Program

Phase-1: North & Central Asia Region

Phase-2: South East Asia Region

• PAK ASGR Mission:  To Safeguard Uninterrupted Global Supply Chain of Critical Minerals by Exploration; Mining: Processing; Separation & Purification; Metal Making; Alloying and Recycling.

• PAK ASGR Focus: Nonfuel Minerals Newly Discovered Source Locations.

• PAK ASGR Deliverable: Multi-Locations Institutional Repositories Focusing Sustainable Mining Value Chain  Life Cycle.

Our Priority Focus

Mining: Digital & Physical Infrastructure

Phase-1

North & Central Asia Region (NCAR)

• PAK ASGR Geographical Areas: North & Central Asian Region (NCAR) particularly Afghanistan, Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia, Pakistan, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan.

• PAK ASGR Priority Focused Geographical Areas: Pamir-Karakoram-Balochistan-Range (PKBR).

• PAK ASGR Rationale: Seventeen Critical Minerals are Technically Recoverable, Cyber Resilient Networks and Paved Road Rail Transportation Infrastructure Available.

• PAK ASGR Lead Companies: AMCO Engineering (AMCO) Pakistan and MUGHALS-RESOCHEM (MRC) LLC USA.

• Program Lead: Principal Group Director Mr. Mahammad Afzal Mirza.

Phase-1: North & Central Asia Region

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Two Unique Images of Asian High Mountains 

About 900 Kilometers or About 560 Miles Below Ground

• 3-D supercomputer simulations of hidden rock structures deep under Asian High Mountains

• Scientists from China, Canada, and the U.S. used seismic data from 227 Asian regional earthquakes during 2007-2011

• The group published their results in March 2015 in the American Geophysical Union Journal of Geophysical Research, Solid Earth

Image Source: Rice University Houston, Texas USA

Identified Technically Recoverable

Untapped Available 

Critical Minerals

Metadata Source: USGS

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lanthanum (La), cerium (Ce), praseodymium (Pr), neodymium (Nd), promethium (Pm), samarium (Sm) , europium (Eu), gadolinium (Gd), terbium (Tb), dysprosium (Dy), holmium (Ho), erbium(Er), thulium (Th) yterrbium (Yb), lutetium (Lu), and the transition elements scandium (Sc) and yttrium (Y).

Industrial Uses

Critical Minerals Applications

Above Images Source: https://www.usgs.gov/

Global Context

Developed economies are heavily dependent on foreign sources of critical minerals and on foreign supply chains to build value-added products, resulting in potential strategic vulnerabilities to global economic prosperity and national security. Consequently, almost each nation is perusing or formulating policies to secure the supply chain.

USA Strategy

President of USA issued Executive Order 13817 (December 2017) which tasked the US Department of the Interior, to develop a list of minerals deemed critical, and the Department of Commerce, in coordination with other Federal agencies, to develop a strategy to reduce the Nation’s vulnerability to disruptions in the supply of critical minerals.

Project PAK ASGR Focus

Our Holistic Approach

Cyber Resilient Solution

We, along with Preferred Business Vendors (PBV), are working on Integrated Solutions for Data Acquisition and Analysis (2D, 3D & 4D)  Seismology (Atmospheric, Earthquakes, Oceanic, Tectonic, Volcanic, and Artificial Intelligence, Structural Monitoring, Seismic Site Evaluation, Underground Fresh Water Exploration (depth 8,000+ feet) using state-of-the-art Digital Instruments and  Seismic Data Acquisition Systems.

Gravity & Magnetic Exploration

Processing and Interpretation

Spectroscopy Remote Sensing

Pakistan  Copper & Gold

Exploration