Granite extraction has been suspended in mines at Parbatipur upazila of Dinajpur for an indefinite period since around 6:00am on Saturday for a lack of explosives.
State-run Maddhapara Granite Mining Company has run up a loss of around Tk 565 crore, mainly due to two contractors hired back-to-back failing to meet their extraction targets. Moreover, a new contractor is yet to be appointed despite the end of the tenure of the last one. Granite is used in buildings, bridges, pavements and monuments while its polished slabs and tiles are
Discovery of magnetic iron ore reserve in Dinajpur
Proper steps needed for commercial mining
An iron ore sample from Dinajpur hangs in the air when attached to a magnet. Photo courtesy:
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He holds a piece of the rock sample and brings it near to a magnet bar. Instantly, the rock sample gets attached to the magnet and hangs on to it when the magnet bar is held up in the air. This is magnetite ore, a magnetic iron-rich mineral valued worldwide for its content, and we have just discovered a big reserve of this mineral only 450 metres below the surface at Alihat, Hakimpur Upazila, Dinajpur, said Mohammad Masud, a geoscientist working with the Geological Survey of Bangladesh (GSB), a government organisation dedicated to the discovery of natural mineral resources. This was disclosed in a programme last week arranged by the GSB and sponsored by the Ministry of Power, Energy and Mineral Resources aiming at exchange of ideas with national experts and academicians about the discove