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Agency executive. Pralhad Joshi, Minister of Mines. Website. mines.gov.in. The Ministry of Mines is the ministry in the Government of India. The ministry functions as the primary body for the formulation and administration of laws relating to mines in India. The head of the ministry is Pralhad Joshi, who has been serving since June 2019.
The mining industry in India is a major economic activity which contributes significantly to the economy of India. The gross domestic product (GDP) contribution of the mining industry varies from 2.2% to 2.5% only but going by the GDP of the total industrial sector, it contributes around 10% to 11%. Even mining done on small scale contributes 6 ...
Bird Group of Companies. The Orissa Minerals Development Company Limited ( OMDC ), (also known as Orissa Minerals ), [2] is a Public Sector Undertaking company [3] in the Indian states of Odisha under administrative control of Department of Steel and Mines, Government of Odisha. [4] It was founded on August 16, 1918 and is engaged in the mining ...
Production. Mining is done by both opencast and underground methods. The major copper mines are the Khetri copper belt in Rajasthan, Singhbhum copper belt in Jharkhand and Malanjkhand copper belt in Madhya Pradesh which are mined by HCL; Singhbhum belt is mined by M/s Indian Copper Complex. While the Ingeldhal mine is operated by M/s Hutti Gold ...
The Indian Bureau of Mines rules which control the type of mining, allow a maximum mining depth six metres to prevent environmental degradation. But miners have flouted this rule to over-extract iron-ore. For example, if they are allowed to take 100 metric tonnes, mines take 1,000 metric tonnes.
India does not have a large number of copper mines and the mines in the country are primarily concentrated in Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Bihar and Jharkhand. Sterlite Copper, Hindalco Industries and Hindustan Copper are the three companies that dominate India's copper industry. Gold. As of 2020, India's gold production was 1.6 tonnes.
The Geological Survey of India (GSI) is a scientific agency of India.It was founded in 1851, as a Government of India organization under the Ministry of Mines, one of the oldest of such organisations in the world and the second oldest survey in India after the Survey of India (founded in 1767), for conducting geological surveys and studies of India, and also as the prime provider of basic ...
Alampara Iron Ore Mine. Alampara mine is an iron ore mine located in Chakkittapara, Koyilandi, Kerala. [1] It is spread across 406.45 hectares. It is estimated that the reserve has around 53 million tons of Magnetite Iron ore. [1] The Kozhikode city is about 65 km from the mines, [1] The Indian Bureau of mines approved this mining project.