Omar Minerals a division of Omar Associates (Pvt.) Ltd. has been involved with the Mineral Industry for the last decade. Employing some of the best geologists and scientists of Pakistan. Omar Minerals is credited with some astonishing discoveries one of them being “Talc”.

TALC

Talc is a rock that is mined from open-pit and underground deposits. Because it is a natural product, talc is always found in combination with atleast one other mineral whose proportion depends on its geological origin.

Chemically pure talc has never been found in nature in commercial quantities. Practically all of the talc products offered are impure.

The most common host for talc ore bodies is dolomite & ultramafic rocks.

Color variations range from snow-white to black, including greenish gray & various shades of green, pink and even red.

Chemical Formula:
Mg3Si4O10(OH)2

HISTORY OF PAKISTAN TALC :

Abbotabad & Mansehra Region:

This region along with adjacent area was subjected to mountain-building in Early Cambrian times (500 million years ago) and granitization took place over large areas of the order of thousands of Square Kilometers Apart from the major end-product granite a number of intermediate products were also generated in peripheral areas viz.

• Iron ore and Manganese ore deposits.
• Carbonatite deposits in Swat and Malakand.
• Fluorite deposits and Fluorite granite in Malakand.
• Nepheline Syenite and Sodalite Syenite in Swat.
• Wolfram minerals in Mansehra.
• Soapstone and Talc deposits in Abbotabad.

Magnesium-laden emanations from rocks being granitized, altered the lime stones to Soapstone or Talc as a response to environmental conditions, purity of the emanations & limestones, susceptibility to metamorphism, temperature and pressure conditions, duration of metamorphic episode etc etc.

OUR MINES & ENVIROMENT

Pakistan is host to some of the best Talc deposits in the world, which are now being brought forth by Omar Minerals.

With our own mines, each exhibiting a unique and diverse quality Omar Minerals have now made a systematic and well defined Mining Schedule and strategy to plan & sort out different grades of ores.

Each ore sample is then carefully selected and analyzed on site, in terms of their Chemical & Physical properties and then rechecked at our main Laboratory in Karachi.

Since Pakistan has no open pit mines the very white talc has to be fetched from deep inside the mines and we place a lot of premium on our white products.

Omar minerals mines are situated in the most beautiful & lush green valleys of the North West Frontier Province (NWFP) almost 1600 km North East of Karachi and all endeavors are made to environmentally protect this area. Trees are not allowed to be cut. Great care is taken to ensure that New Mine heads are not situated in and near dense foliage further trees are being planted and a Master plan to this effect is already in place to enhance the ecological balance & harmony of the area.

Great care is taken at our mines to ensure that Child labour is not allowed and is totally forbidden.

FOREIGN COLLABORATION

Omar Mineral has hired a Swiss consulting firm “ARBEVA ENGINEERING”. Arbeva engineering with more than 37 years of experience in Mineral production has helped us in setting up a state of the art plant in Korangi Karachi. The first of its kind in Pakistan.

PLANT & EQUIPMENT

Our main plant is situated at the port and Industrial Capital of Pakistan in Karachi. Omar Mineral in collaboration with Arbeva Engineering has employed Ball mills, Roller Mills and state of the are Jet mills to cater to all the sizes down to 1 micron particle size. Each batch is carefully examined for whiteness, chemical and physical properties and then passed on to our storage Silos for packing.