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Highlights of Mineral Production

April 2014 to March 2015

A. General

During the financial year 2014-15, the total value of mineral production (excluding atomic

minerals and minor minerals and also excluding value for February and March in respect of 31 minerals

notified as minor minerals w.e.f.10.02.2015 ) in the country was at Rs. 236554 crore indicating a

nominal increase over the previous year. This was mainly due to increase in the production of Coal ,

Lignite, Lead Conc., Zinc Conc., Flourite, Kyanite, Limestone, Magnesite, Phosphorite and

Vermiculite. The production of the minerals like Natural Gas (Ut.), Petroleum (Crude), Bauxite,

Chromite, Copper Ore and Conc., Gold, Iron Ore, Manganese Ore, Silver, Tin Conc., Apatite,

Diamond, Garnet (Abrasive), Graphite, Limeshell, Marl, Moulding Sand, Sillimanite, Selenite,

Wollastonite etc. decreased during 2014-15.

B. Index of Mineral Production

The index of mineral production (base 2004-05=100) for the year 2014-15 was 126.5. An

increase of 1.5% was observed during the year over the that of 2013-14 owing to increase in the

production of coal, lignite, lead conc., zinc conc., flourite, kyanite, limestone, magnesite, phosphorite

and vermiculite etc. The index of mineral production has shown an increase of about 2.9% in fuel

minerals and 8.2% in non metallic minerals in the current year. However a decline of 13.7% over the

previous year was indicated in metallic minerals.

C. Reporting Mines

The Reporting mine is defined as, "a mine reporting production or reporting 'Nil' production

during a year but engaged in developmental work such as overburden removal, underground driving,

winzing, sinking work; exploration by pitting, trenching or drilling as evident from the MCDR

Returns".

Total number of reporting mines (excluding atomic and minor minerals) during 2014-15

decreased to 3524 as compared to 3979 in the preceding year. The number of mines in fuel group of

minerals excluding petroleum (crude) and natural gas (utilised) was 552, metallic group of minerals was

637 and in the case of non-metallic group of minerals it was 2335. In the total number of mines in

2014-15, among major states, Rajasthan accounted for as many as 541 or 15.4%, Andhra Pradesh 470

or 13.3 % mines, Gujarat 410 or 11.6%, Madhya Pradesh 376 or 10.7%, Tamil Nadu 292 or 8.3%,

Jharkhand 224 or 6.4%, Chhattisgarh 215 or 6.1%, Karnataka 183 or 5.2%, Odisha 172 or 4.9%,

Maharashtra 162 or 4.6% Telangana 154 or 4.4% and West Bengal 119 or 3.4 percent. The remaining

States/Union Territories accounted for the other 206 or 5.8 percent of total mines.

D. Statewise Analysis

As regards State-wise scenario during 2014-15, the value of mineral production (excluding

atomic minerals and minor minerals and also excluding value for February and March in respect of 31

minerals notified as minor minerals marked 'mm' w.e.f.10.02.2015) from Off-Shore region was the

highest at Rs.54511 crore or 23.0% of the total value of mineral production followed in order of

importance by Odisha Rs.29485 crore or 12.5%, Jharkhand Rs.29013 crore or 12.3%, Rajasthan Rs.

25046 crore or 10.6%, Chhattisgarh Rs.19416 crore or 8.2%, Madhya Pradesh Rs.14363 crore or 6.1%,

Gujarat Rs.11630 crore or 4.9%, Assam Rs.10780 crore or 4.6%, Telangana Rs.8178 or 3.5%,

Maharashtra Rs.7064 crore or 3.0%, Tamil Nadu Rs.6487 crore and Karnataka Rs.6465 crore or 2.7%

each, West Bengal Rs.4547 crore or 1.9%, Meghalaya Rs.4038 crore or 1.7% and Uttar Pradesh Rs.

2156 crore and Andhra Pradesh Rs.2031 or 0.9% each. Other States/Union Territories shared the

remaining 1344 crore or 0.6% of the total value of mineral production.

Among the States, value of mineral production registered an increase in, Chhattisgarh,

Himachal Pradesh, Jharkhand, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Meghalaya, Tamil Nadu,

Telangana, Tripura, Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal. Whereas, Andhra Pradesh,

Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Bihar, Goa, Gujarat, Haryana, Jammu & Kashmir, Kerala, Odisha,

Rajasthan and Off-Shore region indicated decline in value of mineral production during the year under

review.

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E. Mineral-wise Analysis

During the year under review, the contribution of Coal in terms of value was the highest at Rs.

89175 crore or about 37.7% of the total value of mineral production followed by Petroleum (crude)

Rs.68094 crore or 28.8%, Iron Ore Rs. 28534 crore or about 12.1%, natural gas (utilised) Rs. 26947

crore or 11.4%, lignite Rs.6418 crore or 2.7%, limestone Rs.5212 crore or 2.2% and zinc conc. Rs.3144

crore or 1.3 percent. The share of these seven minerals together to the total value of mineral production

during 2014-15 was about 96.2 percent.

The contribution of fuel minerals to the total value of mineral production (excluding atomic and

minor minerals) was 81 percent. The remaining 19% was on account of MCDR minerals comprising

metallic (16%) and non-metallic (3%). A brief review of the production trend of some of the important

minerals, which come under the purview of MCDR 1988, is as follows:

METALLIC MINERALS:

BAUXITE: The Production of bauxite at 22226 thousand tonnes during 2014-15 registered a decrease

of 0.4% as compared to the previous year. Odisha with 42% share was the leading state in bauxite

production followed by Gujarat (25%), Maharashtra (12%), Jharkhand (9%), Chhattisgarh (7%),

Madhya Pradesh (4%). The remaining was contributed by Goa, Karnataka and Tamil Nadu.

NALCO, Utkkal Alumina Industrial Ltd., HINDALCO, Bombay Minerals and BALCO are the

major companies engaged in the mining of bauxite in the country. The share of these companies was

68% in the total production during 2014-15. The contribution of Panchpatmali bauxite mine of NALCO

was 26% in the total output. The share of public sector in the total production was 29%. There were 152

reporting mines of bauxite during 2014-15 of which 18 were in public sector and the remaining 134 in

private sector.

CHROMITE: The production of chromite at 2164 thousand tonnes in 2014-15 decreased by 25% as

compared to that in the previous year due to suspension of mining in a few major minerals in Odisha

due to statutory orders. Odisha reported almost entire production of chromite. There were 25 reporting

mines during the year as compared to 26 in the previous year.

Mining of chromite was mostly dominated by six principal producers, namely OMC, IMFAL,

Balasore Alloys, FACOR, Tata Steel and Jindal Stripe Ltd. The percentage shares of production of

these six companies to the total production was 95% during the year. The three major public sector

companies, namely OMC, MML and IDCOL together reported 37% of the total production. While the

remaining 63% was contributed by private sector mines.

COPPER ORE AND CONC.: The production of copper ore in 2014-15 at 3586 thousand tonnes

decreased by 5% as compared to that in the previous year. There were five reporting mines of copper

ore in 2014-15. HCL was the only producer of copper ore and copper concentrate in India. The

production of copper concentrates at 108 th. tonnes decreased by 23% in 2014-15 as compared to that in

the previous year.

GOLD: Hutti Gold Mine Limited was the major producer of primary gold in India accounting for

99% of the total production and the rest was reported by Manmohan Mineral Industries (P) Ltd. The

production of gold ore at 449 th. tonnes in the year 2014-15 increased by 7 % as compared to that in

the previous year. The recovery of gold bullion in the current year was decreased by 8% as compared

to that in the previous year due to decrease in ore treated and grade by HGML. The production of Gold

primary in 2014-15 was 1440 kgs.

There were four mines reporting production of gold during the year under review. Out of these,

three mines were located in Karnataka and one mine was in Jharkhand state.

IRON ORE: The production of iron ore consisting of lumps, fines and concentrates at 128.91 million

tonnes in 2014-15 decreased by 15% as compared to 152.18 million tonnes in the previous year. There

were 290 reporting mines in 2014-15 as against 322 mines in the previous year. Besides, production of

iron ore was reported by 20 associated mines during 2014-15 as against 18 associated mines in the

previous year. No production was reported from Goa due to discontinuation of mining operations.

During the year under review, Odisha was the leading state in Iron Ore production accounting

for 40% of the total production followed by Chhattisgarh (23%), Karnataka (16%), Jharkhand (15%),

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and remaining (6%) production was reported from Andhra Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra,

Rajasthan and Telangana.

Public Sector contributed about 46% of the total production, out of which 53% was contributed

by NMDC, 39% by SAIL and 4% by Orissa Mining Corporation Limited. The share of private sector in

the total production was 54%, out of which Tata Steel Ltd. contributed 21% in 2014-15. The five

leading producers, namely NMDC, SAIL, Tata Steel Ltd., Rungta Mines Pvt. Ltd. and Serajuddin and

Co. having 24 mines together contributed 65% of the total production of iron ore in the country.

LEAD AND ZINC ORE & CONC.: The production of lead & zinc ore at 9346 thousand tonnes in

2014-15 increased by 1% as compared to that in the previous year. There were eight mines reporting

production of lead and zinc ore in the current year. The production of lead concentrate increased by

about 2% and the production of zinc concentrate increased by 1% during the year.

MANGANESE ORE: The production of manganese ore at 2345 thousand tonnes in 2014-15 decreased

by 11% as compared to the previous year. There were 146 reporting mines of manganese ore in 2014-

15 as against 163 in previous year. MOIL Ltd., continued to be the largest producer of manganese ore

contributing 49% of the total production followed by Tata Steel Ltd. (8%), SMIORE (7%), RBSSDP

(6%) and ML Rungta (5%). The share of these five principal producers having 28 reporting mines was

about 75% of the total production. Twenty two public sector mines were engaged in the mining of

manganese ore in India during the year 2014-15 with contribution as 49% to the total production.

NON-METALLIC MINERALS:

DOLOMITE: The production of Dolomite in 2014-15 (up to January 2015) at 6209 thousand tonnes

registered a decreased of 15% as compared to previous full year. Five principal producers reported 32%

of the total production of Dolomite. Steel Authority of India Ltd. accounted for 13% of the total

production was the leading producer of dolomite, which was followed by Rashtriya Ispat Nigam Ltd.

(7%), South West Mining Ltd. (6%), A.N. Patnaik (3%) and Manish Singh Banafer (3%).

Seven public sector mines (including one associate mine) contributed about 23% of the total

production during the year. There were 172 reporting mines in 2014-15 as against 185 mines in the year

2013-14. Chhattisgarh state was the leading producer of Dolomite among the states and contributed

about 39% of total production followed by Andhra Pradesh (11%) and Karnataka (9%) and remaining

41% was contributed by other eight states.

LIMESTONE: The production of limestone at 292.8 million tonnes during 2014-15 increased by 4%

as compared to that in the previous year. There were 740 reporting mines during the year, as against

779 mines in the previous year. There were 23 public and 717 private sector reporting mines during

2014-15 as against 21 public and 758 private sector reporting mines in the previous year. About 95% of

the total production was reported by captive mines.

As regards state wise production, Rajasthan contributed (21%), followed by Madhya Pradesh

(13%), Andhra Pradesh (12%), Gujarat (9%), Karnataka, Telangana, Chhattisgarh & Tamil Nadu (8%

each) and remaining (13%) production was contributed by the other states. About 54% of total

production was reported by principal producers namely; Ultra Tech Cement Limited (16%), ACC

Limited and Ambuja Cement (7% each), Jaiprakash Associates Limited & Shree Cement Limited (6%

each), The India Cement Limited, Century Textiles & Industries Ltd., The Ramco Cements Ltd. and

Lafarge India Pvt. Ltd. (3% each).

PHOSPHORITE: The production of phosphorite at 1580 thousand tonnes in 2014-15 increased by 9%

as compared to that in the previous year. Ninety one percent of the total output during the year was

contributed by public sector mines and the remaining 9% was reported by one mine of Hindustan Zinc

Limited. The share of Jhamarkotra mine of RSMML was about 86% of the total production during

2014-15. There were 5 reporting mines during 2014-15 as in the previous year.

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