{"id":23225,"date":"2026-08-05T13:54:59","date_gmt":"2026-08-05T08:54:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/?p=23225"},"modified":"2026-08-05T13:54:59","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T08:54:59","slug":"discovery-of-high-quality-lithium-in-khairpur-paves-the-way-for-a-local-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/?p=23225","title":{"rendered":"Discovery of high-quality lithium in Khairpur paves the way for a local industry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The discovery of high-quality lithium reserves in Khairpur has marked a significant step towards establishing Pakistan&#8217;s first domestic lithium industry.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As part of the initiative, Oil and Gas Development Company Limited (OGDCL) and the Pakistan Institute of Nuclear Science and Technology (PINSTECH) have signed an agreement to develop the required extraction technology.<\/p>\n<p>According to officials, the agreement is aimed at producing lithium on a commercial scale from geothermal brine obtained from a well in Khairpur, Sindh.<\/p>\n<p>Initial assessments have described the newly discovered lithium deposits as being of high quality, raising expectations for future investment in battery manufacturing, electric vehicles and advanced technology industries.<\/p>\n<p>Experts say lithium has become one of the world&#8217;s most valuable minerals because of its extensive use in rechargeable batteries and energy storage systems.<\/p>\n<p>Further studies will now be carried out to assess the project&#8217;s commercial viability and long-term production potential.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The discovery of high-quality lithium reserves in Khairpur has marked a significant step towards establishing Pakistan&#8217;s first domestic lithium industry. As part of the initiative, Oil and Gas Development Company Limited (OGDCL) and the Pakistan Institute of Nuclear Science and Technology (PINSTECH) have signed an agreement to develop the required extraction technology. According to officials, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23226,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"googlesitekit_rrm_CAowgLK2DA:productID":"","_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"subtitle":""},"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,46,36],"tags":[4418,13303,13304,13306,8075,62,13305,179],"class_list":["post-23225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-important-news","category-latest","category-pakistan","tag-energy","tag-khairpur","tag-lithium","tag-minerals","tag-ogdcl","tag-pakistan","tag-pinstech","tag-sindh"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23225"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23225\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23227,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23225\/revisions\/23227"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/23226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}