Durr & Zircon Consortium operates three licensed mining companies across Gilgit Baltistan, extracting copper, gold, lithium, nephrite and polymetallic ore under full regulatory compliance.
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For decades this wealth was treated as rumour; significant, but unmapped. That ambiguity is gone. Three registered operators across Skardu, Gilgit and Ghizer, with reports, permits and site access handled end to end.
Ten licensed concessions across Skardu, Gilgit and Ghizer, each with surveyed boundaries, government permits and coordinates you can verify before you travel.
We welcome partners from every market, with transparent company profiles, verified licences, and direct access to our investor desk.
We accompany you to active sites across Gilgit Baltistan. Your safety is our responsibility from arrival through departure.
NOCs, security permissions and regulatory liaison with the authorities are fully managed. You focus on the opportunity.
Our approach
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ExportDurr & Zircon Consortium explores, extracts and commercially manages high-value gemstones and minerals across Gilgit Baltistan, bridging traditional mining with modern technology, from licence through to last-mile export.
A rare, universally traded store of value. Demand spans central banks, technology manufacturers and jewellery markets worldwide. Our Kharmang and Shigar structures carry gold as a strong indication alongside copper.
Our concessions run from Ghizer in the west to Kharmang on the eastern rim, every block surveyed, permitted and reachable.
Durr & Zircon Consortium is run by directors from Gilgit Baltistan itself, holding mining rights granted by the Government of Gilgit Baltistan. Every concession, permit and community agreement sits with the people below.
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CEO
“These mountains have been talked about for generations, but nobody ever went up and proved what was inside them. We did. Now that the Government of Gilgit Baltistan and Pakistan have opened this sector properly, our work is to turn what we found into something that leaves this whole region better off.”
Press & Insights
Investor guides, market analysis and field reports on Gilgit Baltistan's minerals, from the people who hold the licences.
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Pakistan has invited American companies into Balochistan's minerals, but no mine has been awarded yet. Here is what was actually agreed, the real pros and cons, and the evidence on whether US investors are looking at Gilgit Baltistan too.
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A licensed nephrite jade concession in Gilgit Baltistan with more than ten occurrences found in the field, stone exposed at the surface and a road to within a 15-minute walk of the deposit. Here is the investment case, written first for buyers in China, where jade has been sacred for five thousand years.
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The practical side of investing in mining in Pakistan: the company structure you need, what the law says about taking profits home, what the geology of Gilgit Baltistan does and does not prove, how returns work in each route, and the risks worth pricing in.
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Families have panned Gilgit Baltistan's rivers for gold for generations. Regulators are now warning about the machine-driven rush that followed them, and a Kazakh investor just committed $20 million on the strength of preliminary studies alone. Here is where a licensed, producing operation actually fits into that picture.
- Dr. Aftab Hussain, Geological Survey of Pakistan
- Eng. Karim Shah, Mining Consultant, Gilgit
- Hassan Raza, Pakistan Minerals Development Corp
- Ahmed Baig, Gemstone Trader, Peshawar
- Fatima Batool, Community Officer, Skardu
- Waqar Ali, GB Mines and Minerals Dept
- Prof. Tariq Mahmood, UET Lahore
- Dr. Saeed Khan, PCSIR Labs, Islamabad
- Rashid Mehmood, Pak Minerals Trading, Karachi
- Imran Haider, Field Geologist, GB
- Manzoor Hussain, GB Chamber of Commerce
- Nadia Ashraf, Frontier Capital, Islamabad
- Bilal Qureshi, Pak Stone Industries, Rawalpindi
Connect with us to explore and mine in the north. Partner with GBMINES to unlock the unparalleled potential of sustainable, high-yield extraction. This is the future.
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Gilgit Baltistan · Licensed mining operators
