Mining Company
Amania Mining Company is a privately-owned and self-invested enterprise established in 2010 with the aim of developing the mineral resources of Afghanistan. The company has emerged as one of the leading mining companies in the region though exploration, development, mining and processing of industrial minerals and non-ferrous metals, made available to the global market.
Our International Trade Department is responsible for transit, customs and shipment of goods from Bakhud to anywhere in the world via:
- DAF (Delivery at Frontier)
- CIF and CFR (Transit via Pakistan)
FOB Karachi
Bakhud Fluorite Deposit Project
The current assets of AMC lay in its Bakhud Fluorite Deposit project, with an estimated reserve of 8,800,000 tons averaging 47% CaF2 (calcium fluoride). AMC’s exploration department is engaged in extensive exploration of the lease area for other industrial minerals and non-ferrous metals to increase the value of the mine.
Bakhud Fluorite Deposit (BFD) covers a licensed area of exactly 50.057km squared in the Kandahar province of Afghanistan. The area holds a calculated ore resource of up to 8.8 million metric tons.
Geology & Licensed Area
Amania Mining started the exploration of Bakhud’s licensed area from May 2013. Base camp, water wells, access roads and other facilities have now been developed around the area. The exploration work team and geologists gained access to historical Soviet Union mining and exploration data, with further validation of geological maps and data, a strategic exploration plan was put in place and executed in 2014.
The leased area of Bakhud’s mineral occurrences consist of numerous almost flat lying thin bedded, irregular, lenticular and tabular fluorite beds with large barren zones between them. Bakhud Fluorite Deposit is divided in four blocks namely Northern, Southern, Eastern and Western Blocks.
Products
Fluorspar is marketable by two methods of processing:
- Crushing and hand sorting which produces Metallurgical Grade Fluorite ranging from 80% to 90% CaF2. Floatation and Gravity Concentration to upgrade the raw ore to Acid
- Grade assaying 97% CaF2.
Production of Metallurgical Grade Fluorite:
- The Fluorite from the ROM (Run of Mine) usually averages between 30% to 60% CaF2
- Manual hand sorting takes place for preparation of ore to be fed to the crush plant
- Hand sorted ore is fed to the Crush Plant and is crushed to specific sizes demanded by customers (10-40mm, 20-50mm, 20-40mm, 20-60mm), the sizes are controlled by vibrator screens installed to the crush plant and each size is carried to the packing floor by conveyor belts. Whilst crushing, washing of the ore also takes place simultaneously to remove impurities and upgrade the CaF2 content
- To ensure quality, our QA/QC department takes representative samples before and after crushing to be analyzed in our in-house laboratory for quality assurance
The output grade is usually demand based. The main grades currently produced are 80%, 85% and 90% CaF2
