Minerals and Mines of India

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1. BailadilaChhattisgarhBailadila in Dantewada holds high-grade hematite iron ore, mined by NMDC; the name comes from the hill shaped like a bullock's hump (baila = ox, dila = hump).
2. NoamundiJharkhandNoamundi in West Singhbhum has been an iron ore centre since the early 1900s, a captive mine of Tata Steel.
3. BarbilOdishaBarbil in Keonjhar anchors the Barbil-Koira valley, India's largest hematite iron ore mining belt.
4. KudremukhKarnatakaKudremukh in Chikkamagaluru holds magnetite iron ore, the black magnetic ore carrying up to about 70 percent iron.
5. DonimalaiKarnatakaDonimalai in Ballari is NMDC's big mechanised hematite mine in Karnataka.
6. JhariaJharkhandJharia in Dhanbad is India's largest coalfield and its main source of prime coking coal for steelmaking.
7. RaniganjWest BengalRaniganj is India's first coalfield, where commercial mining began in the early 19th century.
8. BokaroJharkhandBokaro's coalfields on the Damodar, near the North and South Karanpura fields, supply the Bokaro Steel Plant of SAIL.
9. TalcherOdishaTalcher in Angul holds some of India's biggest thermal coal reserves, worked by Mahanadi Coalfields (MCL).
10. KorbaChhattisgarhKorba holds Chhattisgarh's biggest coal belt, with huge open-cast mines like Gevra run by SECL.
11. SingrauliMadhya PradeshSingrauli on the MP-UP border in the Son valley is one of India's biggest coal-producing belts, run by Northern Coalfields.
12. NeyveliTamil NaduNeyveli in Cuddalore is India's largest lignite field, mined by NLC India; lignite is brown coal of Tertiary age.
13. SingareniTelanganaSingareni Collieries works Telangana's Godavari valley coal, a state-government PSU headquartered at Kothagudem.
14. Namchik-NamphukArunachal PradeshNamchik-Namphuk in Changlang is Arunachal Pradesh's first commercial coal mine, near the Myanmar border.
15. PanchpatmaliOdishaPanchpatmali near Koraput is Odisha's biggest bauxite deposit, mined by NALCO in the Eastern Ghats.
16. GandhamardanOdishaGandhamardan in Bargarh-Bolangir is a major bauxite hill range of western Odisha.
17. RatnagiriMaharashtraRatnagiri's laterite-capped plateaus of Dapoli and Mandangad form Maharashtra's main bauxite belt.
18. BalaghatMadhya PradeshBalaghat is India's leading manganese mining district, with MOIL's very deep underground manganese mines.
19. MalanjkhandMadhya PradeshMalanjkhand in Balaghat is India's largest open-cast copper mine, run by Hindustan Copper.
20. KhetriRajasthanKhetri in Jhunjhunu is Rajasthan's historic copper belt on the Aravalli, mined since ancient times.
21. Kolar Gold FieldsKarnatakaKolar Gold Fields had among the world's deepest mine shafts (over 3 km) and worked for more than a century.
22. HuttiKarnatakaHutti in Raichur is India's only major working primary gold mine, run by Hutti Gold Mines Ltd.
23. KodermaJharkhandKoderma was once the world's largest producer of high-quality sheet mica (muscovite).
24. NelloreAndhra PradeshThe Gudur belt of Nellore is Andhra Pradesh's mica zone, famous for green and ruby mica in pegmatite veins.
25. JadugudaJharkhandJaduguda in East Singhbhum is India's first uranium mine, worked by UCIL.
26. DigboiAssamDigboi saw Asia's first oil well in 1889 and is the birthplace of India's oil industry.
27. Mumbai HighMaharashtraMumbai High, about 160 km off the Mumbai coast, is India's largest offshore oil field, found in 1974.
28. AnkleshwarGujaratAnkleshwar near Bharuch was Gujarat's first major oil discovery, struck in 1958 in the Cambay basin.
29. KalolGujaratKalol near Ahmedabad is an ONGC oil and gas field in the Cambay basin of Gujarat.
30. MangalaRajasthanMangala in the Barmer-Sanchore basin, found by Cairn in 2004, is one of India's largest onshore oil finds.
31. ZawarRajasthanZawar in Udaipur is among the world's oldest zinc mining areas, worked since ancient times.
32. SukindaOdishaSukinda in Jajpur holds the bulk of India's chromite reserves, one of the world's largest deposits.
33. KatniMadhya PradeshKatni is ringed by cement-grade limestone mines feeding Madhya Pradesh's big cement plants.
34. PannaMadhya PradeshPanna holds India's only producing diamond mine, the Majhgawan kimberlite pipe worked by NMDC.
35. SalemTamil NaduSalem's Chalk Hills hold one of India's largest magnesite deposits.
36. Singhbhum Copper Belt (Mosabani-Ghatsila)JharkhandMosabani, Rakha, Surda and Kendadih around Ghatsila form India's oldest copper belt, in the Singhbhum shear zone.
37. TummalapalleAndhra PradeshTummalapalle in Kadapa hosts one of the largest uranium reserves confirmed in India, worked by UCIL in the Cuddapah basin.
38. ChavaraKeralaChavara on the Kollam coast has world-class beach sands rich in ilmenite, rutile, zircon and monazite, mined by Indian Rare Earths and KMML.
39. DeganaRajasthanDegana in Nagaur holds India's principal tungsten deposit (wolfram), at Rewat hill.
40. WajrakarurAndhra PradeshWajrakarur-Lattavaram in Anantapur holds a cluster of kimberlite pipes, India's best-known diamond field after Panna.
41. PanandhroGujaratPanandhro in Kachchh is Gujarat's main lignite field, worked by GMDC since the 1970s.
42. Nagpur-BhandaraMaharashtraThe Nagpur-Bhandara belt of Vidarbha holds high-grade manganese ore, with MOIL mines at Tumsar, Kanhan, Kandri and Mansar.
43. GiridihJharkhandGiridih yields India's finest coking coal, from the Lower Karhabari seam of this small Jharkhand coalfield.
44. LohardagaJharkhandLohardaga district sits on the flat-topped Pat plateau of Chotanagpur, a major bauxite zone worked by Hindalco at Bagru, Pakhar and Hisri.
45. Bellary-Hospet-SandurKarnatakaThe Bellary-Hospet-Sandur hills hold large hematite iron ore deposits in the Sandur schist belt of Karnataka.