Major Ferrous and non-ferrous Minerals in India

Major Minerals in India

Ferrous Minerals

• It accounts for three-fourth of total metallic minerals and provides a strong base for the development of metallurgical industries
• India sends out generous amounts of ferrous minerals after internal needs.

Iron Ore

• It is a basic mineral and considered as the backbone of modern industrial development
• India is wealthy in great quality iron metals
• Types of Iron Ore:
  • Magnetite: It is the best iron metal with an exceptionally high substance of iron, up to 70 percent. It has great attractive characteristics, particularly important in the electrical business
  • Hematite: It is the main modern iron metal as far as the amount utilized, however has a marginally lower iron substance than magnetite.(50-60 per cent).

Major Iron Ore Belts in India

• Odisha-Jharkhand Belt: In Odisha high grade hematite metal is found in Badampahar mines in the Mayurbhanj and Kendujhar locale..In the abutting Singbhum locale of Jharkhand haematite iron mineral is grounded in Gua and Noamundi
• Exceptionally high grade hematites are found in the Bailadila scope of slopes in the Bastar locale of Chhattisgarh. The range of hills very high grade hematite iron metal. It has the best real properties needed for steel making. Iron metal from these mines is conveyed to Japan and South Korea through Visakhapatnam port
• Ballari-Chitradurga-ChikkamagaluruTumakuru belt: It lies in Karnataka and has huge stores of iron ore.The Kudremukh mines arranged in the Western Ghats of Karnataka are a 100% convey unit. Kudremukh stores are known to be one of the greatest. The metal is shipped as slurry through a pipeline to a port close to Mangaluru
• Maharashtra-Goa belt: it incorporates the province of Goa and Ratnagiri locale of Maharashtra. However, the metals are not of exceptionally great, yet they are proficiently taken advantage of. Iron metal is traded through Marmagao port.

Manganese

• Manganese is for the most part utilized in the assembling of steel and ferro-manganese composite. Almost 10 kg of manganese is needed to make one ton of steel
• It is likewise utilized in assembling fading powder, insect poisons and paints.

Non-Ferrous Minerals

• India’s stores and creation of non-ferrous minerals isn’t extremely palatable
• These minerals, which include copper bauxite, lead, zinc and gold, play a vital role in a number of metallurgical, engineering and electrical industries.

Copper

• India is basically lacking in the save and creation of copper
• It is mainly used in electrical cables, electronics and chemical industries as copper is malleable, ductile and a good conductor
• Driving Producers: The Balaghat mines in Madhya Pradesh, Khetri mines in Rajasthan and Singhbhum area of Jharkhand.

Bauxite

• However, a few minerals contain aluminum, it is from bauxite, an earth like substance that alumina and later aluminum is found.
• Bauxite stores are framed by the deterioration of a wide assortment of rocks wealthy in aluminum silicates
• Aluminum is a significant metal since it consolidates the strength of metals like iron, with outrageous gentility and furthermore with great conductivity and extraordinary pliability
• Significant bauxite Deposits: They are chiefly found in the Amarkantak level, Maikal slopes and the level district of Bilaspur-Katni. Odisha was the biggest bauxite delivering state, where the Panchpatmali stores in Koraput region are the most significant.