Equipment yard on a mining site in Gilgit-Baltistan
Mining & minerals

MINING &
MINERAL
DEVELOPMENT.

Four mineral streams carried from survey and licensing through plant installation to operation, with equipment and technical supervision drawn from Chinese manufacturing partners.

4 mineral streamsGilgit-Baltistan & BalochistanMining lease in place
Method

How we work

Three stages, run in sequence on every stream.

01 Identify

Reconnaissance, sampling and desk study to establish whether a deposit is worth licensing. Streams that do not clear this stage are dropped.

02 Develop

Licensing, tenure, access and plant design. Equipment is specified and procured against the deposit rather than the other way round.

03 Operate

Installation, commissioning and production, with operator training and supervision from the equipment manufacturer on site.

Portfolio

Four mineral sectors

Each stream sits at a different stage. Region and start date are stated where they apply.

Copper ore hand specimen
Stream 01Operating since 2016
Copper
Concession held

A copper concession held since 2016 and in operation. Survey and sampling programmes are run with local partners alongside production.

Antimony ore outcrop
Stream 02Mined since 2022
Antimony
Balochistan

An antimony deposit in Balochistan mined since 2022, supplying industrial and export offtake alongside regional partners.

Phosphate ore at the outcrop
Stream 03Operating since 2024
Phosphate
Feedstock supply

Phosphate in operation since 2024, supplied as fertiliser and industrial feedstock towards domestic processing capacity and blended product.

Wash plant on the placer gold site
Stream 04In development
Placer Gold
Gilgit-Baltistan

River-terrace and channel deposits worked by dredger and wash plant. An SD-300 plant is installed on site, with material sampling and recovery trials completed on the riverbank.

Project in focus — stream 04
Placer gold — Gilgit-Baltistan

Mining lease
in place.

The lease covering the placer gold operation is granted and current. Title documents, survey records and technical reports are held on file at the Islamabad office. They are released in full to counterparties in active discussion, under a signed confidentiality agreement.

We do not publish coordinates or reserve estimates on this site. Site-specific data belongs in a data room, not a brochure.

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Project
Placer gold — Gilgit-Baltistan
Lease status
In place
Projected gross revenue
USD ~240M/yr at USD 148/g
Title & survey records
Held on file, Islamabad
Technical reports
Available on request
Disclosure
Under signed NDA

Indicative, at design capacity and August 2026 gold price. Subject to resource confirmation, commissioning and gold price movement.

Braided river channel in the valley below the plant
Placer gold — in plain terms

How the gold
got into
the river

No blasting
No tunnelling
No chemical leaching
Recirculated water

Gold doesn't only occur in hard rock. Over millions of years, rivers draining the Himalaya, Karakoram and Hindu Kush have eroded gold-bearing formations upstream and carried the metal downstream as fine grains and nuggets. Because gold is heavy, it drops out of the current wherever the water slows — in gravel bars, bends and bedrock traps. Deposits formed this way are called placer.

Recovering it is a sorting problem rather than a drilling one. River gravel is dredged from the working area and fed through a wash plant, where water and gravity separate the heavy fraction from sand and stone. The concentrate is refined further on site. There is no blasting, no tunnelling, and no chemical leaching — the plant runs on recirculated water.

This makes placer projects faster to bring into production than hard-rock mines, and the main variables are the volume of material you can move per hour and how efficiently you recover the gold in it. That's why capacity is quoted in tonnes per hour: five dredgers, 1,500–2,000 tonnes per hour each.

Survey party walking the ridge above the working reach
Site layout — Nomal, Gilgit-Baltistan

Where the dredgers sit

Five dredger positions along the working reach of the river, north of Gilgit.

01 02 03 04 05 RIVER REACH NOMAL–GILGIT ROAD NALTAR VALLEY ROAD SCHEMATIC — NOT TO SCALE BLOCK BOUNDARY DREDGER POSITION
Working block
3.08 km²
River length
4.26 km
Dredger positions
5 units
Placer gold — project status

Where the project stands

Two stages closed, one under way, one to follow. Stated plainly, and updated as it moves.

Position as of August 2026
Stage 01Closed
Lease secured
Done
Tenure granted and documented. Records held at the Islamabad office.
Stage 02Closed
Equipment procured
Done
Dredging and washing plant ordered and delivered to site.
Stage 03You are here
Plant installation
In progress
Plant structure erected over the channel; sluice and pump lines under assembly.
Stage 04Not started
Production
To follow
Continuous recovery begins once commissioning trials are signed off.
SD-300 wash plant commissioned on the river terrace
SD-300 wash plant — installed on site
Plant structure erected over the river channel
Plant structure over the channel
Material sampling on the riverbank
Material sampling — riverbank
Survey party on the river terrace
Survey party — river terrace
Technical partner — China
Hubei Jinggang Ocean Investment

Hubei Jinggang Ocean Investment

Our technical partner on the placer gold project is a Wuhan-based mining investment and operating company, founded in 2013, with two wholly-owned overseas subsidiaries and roughly sixty staff. They bring something rare in this sector: prior operating experience running mechanised placer gold recovery at scale, in the field, outside China.

Their role on this project covers dredger fleet supply, wash plant manufacture, installation supervision and operator training.

01 Placer gold, West Africa Joined exploration on the Elephant River placer project in Liberia in 2016, then led development of the Gargar placer gold mine from 2017 as controlling investor. Recorded grades of 0.3–1.5 g/m³, with a peak of 7.8 g/m³.
02 Fleet scale Deployed over fifty units of excavation, washing and screening equipment across the Gargar operation.
03 Production record The project produced a cumulative 12.8 tonnes of gold over four years of operation before the company divested its stake in 2021.
04 Current iron ore operations Contract operator for China Baowu's Bomi East DSO project in Liberia since 2023, producing over 1.5 million tonnes of direct-shipping ore across a seven-month dry season in 2024–25. Acquired the Gofante iron project in 2025, a 219 km² exploration area.
05 In-house geology Five geological engineers with survey experience across placer gold, copper, iron and quartz sand, using aeromagnetic remote sensing, drilling and surface geophysics.
Plant structure over the river channel

Offtake, JV or site visit.

Mineral offtake enquiries, joint venture proposals and requests to visit the placer gold operation go direct to the directors' office in Islamabad.

info@uniconimex.com ceo@uniconimex.com
Head office
Islamabad, Pakistan
Mon–Fri, 10:00–18:00 PKT
Mineral streams
Copper — concession, since 2016
Antimony — Balochistan, since 2022
Phosphate — feedstock, since 2024
Placer gold — Gilgit-Baltistan
Documentation
Lease and technical file released
under signed NDA