Mine: Underground
digging is done after knowing direction of a mineral deposit.
Such place is called a mine.
Mining: The process of extracting minerals
is called mining.
Mineral is naturally occurring substance. It is usually formed
underground or beneath water body. Examples of minerals are Salt,
Coal, Marble, Iron etc.
In the gold mine of South Africa,
about 50,000 miners are working.
Types of mining.
1) Open pit mining 2) Hand-panning
mining 3) Adit-tunnel mining
4) Shaft-tunnel mining 5) Drilling
mining
Khewra mineis the oldest mine and most
of salt is extracted from here.
Khewra mine has long railway line of about 25 miles.
A small electric train runs in khewra mine.
The asthma clinic is also established in khewra mine.
Kalabagh Salt mineis located near the village of Khernwala on the
bank of the river Indus.
Kalabagh salt mine is situated at some distance from khewra
in western direction.
Warcha salt
mineis mostly
transparent and extremely pure and used infoods.
Bahadur khail and Jatta Salt mines they are situated in KPK.
A huge reserve of Magnesiteis found in the province of Baluchistan
at speen kaan. Medicines, cements, paper, and fertilizers are
made from it.
In Muslimbagh the reserves of Chromite
were discovered before the creation of Pakistan.
Huge reserve of Sulphur is present in Balochistan
province in Koh-e-Sultan. It is mostly used
in medicines.
A huge reserve of copper was discovered at Sandak
in Balochistan.
Mineral or crude oil:Pakistan produced only 20% crude oil of its need. The total
estimate of reserves of Pakistan is 313 million barrel, but
presently daily production is only 66,532 barrel.
Coal: The estimate reserves of coal in Pakistan are 185 billion
tones. While need of our country is 6.4 billion
tons.
Hydro-electricity:33 %
of electricity in Pakistan is generated by hydro-power. It is
called Hydroelectricity.
Dames constructed on rivers are…….Tarbela on river Indus, Mangla
on Jhelum, and Warsak on Kabul.
Atomic Energy: Presently only two
nuclear plants are producing electricity in our country. One is
in Karachi named KANUPP (Karachi Atomic Nuclear Power Plant) and second
is at Chashma near Mainwali.
Only2%
electricity is generated from nuclear resources of
Pakistan.
Biogas:For this purpose make tank underground,
filled with dung, and covered. After some time the dung decomposes and produces
gas.
MCQs .
A
naturally forming, inorganic solid that has a definite crystalline structure is
known as
a) minerals
