Pan Asia Gemstones Mining Limited will comprise an integrated mine-to-market operation. The cornerstone of this strategy will be the trademarked “Tashkurgan Emerald”. The Tashkurgan Emerald will be differentiated in the market from other emeralds by its excellent natural beauty, and by a guarantee that the stones are entirely natural, and have received no treatment or enhancement of any kind.

To achieve its aim of creating a mine to market business, a high quality cutting and polishing operation will be set up in the Tashkurgan Municipal area with land granted by the Municipal Government to build a factory, where the top quality emeralds will be processed in-house.

The distribution of cut emeralds to the market will be modelled on the Rio Tinto Emerald sight-holder system. This method was employed with great effect at the famous Sandawana Emerald mine. A further component of the Company's strategy will be to target the introduction of China's new “Tashkurgan Emerald” to the newly affluent Chinese consumer. Commercial quality emeralds will be mainly processed in-house and marketed in China and to the US and other markets.

Pan Asia is in the process of applying for a mining license. The Company has  signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the authorities to consolidate the Dabada Village New Emerald Mining Area. This gives Pan Asia the prerogative to bring the entire emerald area under its umbrella. The Company will undertake an ongoing programme to define and continually upgrade emerald reserves within its licence areas.

Mining will commence dependent upon the feasibility study, trial mining and the definition of an economically viable ore body. Owing to the nature of gemstone occurrences, the feasibility study will aim to define an “inferred or indicated reserve”. Appropriate mine design and extraction methods will determine the scale of mining operations and the level of investment required to bring the deposits into production.