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Types of Mineral R
Mineral esour
Resources
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On the basis of chemical and physical
properties, minerals may be grouped under two
main categories of metallics and non-metallics
which may further be classified as follows :
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As, it is clear from the Fig. 7.1 metallic crystalline rocks. Over 97 per cent of coal
minerals are the sources of metals. Iron ore, reserves occur in the valleys of Damodar, Sone,
copper, gold produce metal and are included Mahanadi and Godavari. Petroleum reserves
in this category. Metallic minerals are further are located in the sedimentary basins of Assam,
divided into ferrous and non-ferrous metallic Gujarat and Mumbai High i.e. off-shore region
minerals. Ferrous, as you know, refers to iron. in the Arabian Sea. New reserves have been
All those minerals which have iron content are located in the Krishna-Godavari and Kaveri
ferrous such as iron ore itself and those which basins. Most of the major mineral resources
do not have iron content are non-ferrous such occur to the east of a line linking Mangaluru
as copper, bauxite, etc. and Kanpur.
Non-metallic minerals are either organic Minerals are generally concentrated in
in origin such as fossil fuels also known as mineral three broad belts in India. There may be some
fuels which are derived from the buried animal sporadic occurrences here and there in isolated
and plant life such as coal and petroleum. Other pockets. These belts are :
type of non-metallic minerals are inorganic in
origin such as mica, limestone and graphite, etc. The North-Eastern Plateau Region
Minerals have certain characteristics. These This belt covers Chhotanagpur (Jharkhand),
are unevenly distributed over space. There is Odisha Plateau, West Bengal and parts of
inverse relationship in quality and quantity of Chhattisgarh. Have you ever thought about the
minerals i.e. good quality minerals are less in reason of major iron and steel industry being
quantity as compared to low quality minerals. located in this region? It has variety of minerals
The third main characteristic is that all minerals viz. iron ore coal, manganese, bauxite, mica.
are exhaustible over time. These take long to
develop geologically and they cannot be
replenished immediately at the time of need.
Thus, they have to be conserved and not Find out the specific region where these
misused as they do not have the second crop. minerals are being extracted.
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for its petroleum deposits. You may be knowing
that Gujarat and Rajasthan both have rich
sources of salt.
Ferrous Mineral
Ferrous minerals such as iron ore, manganese,
chromite, etc., provide a strong base for the Can you find out its reason?
development of metallurgical industries. Our
country is well-placed in respect of ferrous
minerals both in reserves and production. plants are located around them. Most of the
important mines such as Noamundi and Gua
Iron Ore are located in Poorbi and Pashchimi
Singhbhum districts. This belt further extends
India is endowed with fairly abundant
to Durg, Dantewara and Bailadila. Dalli, and
resources of iron ore. It has the largest reserve
of iron ore in Asia. The two main types of ore Rajhara in Durg are the important mines of
iron ore in the country. In Karnataka, iron ore
found in our country are haematite and
magnetite. It has great demand in international deposits occur in Sandur-Hospet area of
market due to its superior quality. The iron ore B allari district, Baba Budan hills and
Kudremukh in Chikkamagaluru district and
mines occur in close proximity to the coal fields
in the north-eastern plateau region of the parts of Shivamogga, Chitradurg and
country which adds to their advantage. Tumakuru districts. The districts of
The total reserves of iron ore in the country Chandrapur, Bhandara and Ratnagiri in
were about 20 billion tonnes in the year 2004- Maharashtra, Karimnagar and Warangal
05. About 95 per cent of total reserves of iron district of Telangana, Kurnool, Cuddapah and
ore is located in the States of Odisha, Anantapur districts of Andhra Pradesh, Salem
Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh, Karnataka, Goa, and Nilgiris districts of Tamil Nadu are other
Telangana, Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu. iron mining regions. Goa has also emerged as
In Odisha, iron ore occurs in a series of hill an important producer of iron ore.
ranges in Sundergarh, Mayurbhanj and Jhar.
Manganese
The important mines are Gurumahisani,
Sulaipet, Badampahar (Mayurbhaj), Kiruburu Manganese is an important raw material for
(Kendujhar) and Bonai (Sundergarh). Similar smelting of iron ore and also used for
hill ranges, Jharkhand has some of the oldest manufacturing ferro alloys. Manganese
iron ore mines and most of the iron and steel deposits are found in almost all geological
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Fig. 7.2 : India – Metallic Minerals (Ferrous)
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formations, however, it is mainly associated with Copper
Dharwar system.
Copper is an indispensable metal in the
Odisha is the leading producer of
electrical industry for making wires, electric
Manganese. Major mines in Odisha are located motors, transformers and generators. It is
in the central part of the iron ore belt of India, alloyable, malleable and ductile. It is also mixed
particularly in Bonai, Kendujhar, Sundergarh, with gold to provide strength to jewellery.
Gangpur, Koraput, Kalahandi and Bolangir. The Copper deposits mainly occur in
Karnataka is another major producer and Singhbhum district in Jharkhand, Balaghat
here the mines are located in Dharwar, Ballari,
district in Madhya Pradesh and Jhunjhunu and
Belagavi, North Canara, Chikkmagaluru,
Alwar districts in Rajasthan.
Shivamogga, Chitradurg and Tumkur.
Minor producers of Copper are Agnigundala
Maharashtra is also an important producer of
in Guntur District (Andhra Pradesh), Chitradurg
manganese which is mined in Nagpur,
Bhandara and Ratnagiri districts. The and Hasan districts (Karnataka) and South Arcot
district (Tamil Nadu).
disadvantage to these mines is that they are
located far from steel plants. The manganese Non-metallic Minerals
belt of Madhya Pradesh extends in a belt in
Among the non-metallic minerals produced in
Balaghat-Chhindwara-Nimar-Mandla and
Jhabua districts. India, mica is the important one. The other
Telangana, Goa, and Jharkhand are other minerals extracted for local consumption are
minor producers of manganese. limestone, dolomite and phosphate.
Mica
Non-Ferrous Minerals
Mica is mainly used in the electrical and
India is poorly endowed with non-ferrous electronic industries. It can be split into very thin
metallic minerals except bauxite.
sheets which are tough and flexible. Mica in
India is produced in Jharkhand, Andhra
Bauxite
Pradesh, Telanganga and Rajasthan followed by
Bauxite is the ore which is used in Tamil Nadu, West Bengal and Madhya Pradesh.
manufacturing of aluminium. Bauxite is found In Jharkhand high quality mica is obtained in a
mainly in tertiary deposits and is associated belt extending over a distance of about 150 km,
with laterite rocks occurring extensively either in length and about 22 km, in width in lower
on the plateau or hill ranges of peninsular India Hazaribagh plateau. In Andhra Pradesh. Nellore
and also in the coastal tracts of the country. district produces the best quality mica. In
Odisha happens to be the largest producer Rajasthan mica belt extends for about 320 kms
of Bauxite. Kalahandi and Sambalpur are the from Jaipur to Bhilwara and around Udaipur.
leading producers. The other two areas which Mica deposits also occur in Mysore and Hasan
have been increasing their production are districts of Karanataka, Coimbatore,
Bolangir and Koraput. The patlands of Tiruchirapalli, Madurai and Kanniyakumari in
Jharkhand in Lohardaga have rich deposits. Tamil Nadu, Alleppey in Kerala, Ratnagiri in
Gujarat, Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra, Purulia and Bankura in West
Maharashtra are other major producers. Bengal.
Bhavanagar, Jamnagar in Gujarat have the major
deposits. Chhattisgarh has bauxite deposits in Energy Resources
Amarkantak plateau while Katni-Jabalpur area
and Balaghat in M.P. have important deposits of Mineral fuels are essential for generation of power,
bauxite. Kolaba, Thane, Ratnagiri, Satara, Pune required by agriculture, industry, transport and
and Kolhapur in Maharashtra are important other sectors of the economy. Mineral fuels like
producers. Tamil Nadu, Karnataka and Goa are coal, petroleum and natural gas (known as fossil
minor producers of bauxite. fuels), nuclear energy minerals, are the
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Fig. 7.3 : India – Minerals (Non-Ferrous)
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conventional sources of energy. These They lie in Jharkhand-Bengal coal belt and the
conventional sources are exhaustible resources. important coal fields in this region are Raniganj,
Jharia, Bokaro, Giridih, Karanpura.
Coal
Jharia is the largest coal field followed by
Coal is a one of the important minerals which Raniganj. The other river valleys associated
is mainly used in the generation of thermal with coal are Godavari, Mahanadi and Sone.
power and smelting of iron ore. Coal occurs in The most important coal mining centres are
rock sequences mainly of two geological ages, Singrauli in Madhya Pradesh (part of Singrauli
namely Gondwana and tertiary deposits. coal field lies in Uttar Pradesh), Korba in
About 80 per cent of the coal deposits in Chhattisgarh, Talcher and Rampur in Odisha,
India is of bituminous type and is of non-coking Chanda–Wardha, Kamptee and Bander in
grade. The most important Gondwana coal Maharashtra and Singareni in Telangana and
fields of India are located in Damodar Valley. Pandur in Andhra Pradesh.
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Fig. 7.5 : India – Conventional Energy Resources
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Tertiary coals occur in Assam, Arunachal Lunej. Mumbai High which lies 160 km off
Pradesh, Meghalaya and Nagaland. It is extracted Mumbai was discovered in 1973 and
from Darangiri, Cherrapunji, Mewlong and production commenced in 1976. Oil and
Langrin (Meghalaya); Makum, Jaipur and Nazira natural gas have been found in exploratory
in upper Assam, Namchik – Namphuk (Arunachal wells in Krishna-Godavari and Kaveri basin
Pradesh) and Kalakot (Jammu and Kashmir). on the east coast.
Besides, the brown coal or lignite occur in Oil extracted from the wells is crude oil
the coastal areas of Tamil Nadu, Pondicherry, and contains many impurities. It cannot be
Gujarat and Jammu and Kashmir. used directly. It needs to be refined. There are
two types of refineries in India: (a) field based
Petroleum and (b) market based. Digboi is an example
Crude petroleum consists of hydrocarbons of of field based and Barauni is an example of
liquid and gaseous states varying in chemical market based refinery.
composition, colour and specific gravity. It is an There are 21 refineries in India as on
essential source of energy for all internal June 2011 (Fig. 7.6). Identify the States in
combustion engines in automobiles, railways and which these are located.
aircraft. Its numerous by-products are processed
Natural Gas
in petrochemical industries such as fertiliser,
synthetic rubber, synthetic fibre, medicines, The Gas Authority of India Limited was set
vaseline, lubricants, wax, soap and cosmetics. up in 1984 as a public sector undertaking to
transport and market natural gas. It is
obtained alongwith oil in all the oil fields but
exclusive reserves have been located along the
Petroleum is referred to as liquid gold eastern coast as well as (Tamil Nadu, Odisha
because of its scarcity and diversified uses. and Andhra Pradesh), Tripura, Rajasthan and
off-shore wells in Gujarat and Maharashtra.
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Fig. 7.6 : India – Oil Refineries
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How are the developed
countries of the world
utilising non-conventional
energy resources? Discuss.
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of energy conversion from blowing wind is energy plant has been commissioned at
simple. The kinetic energy of wind, through Manikaran in Himachal Pradesh.
turbines is converted into electrical energy. The
permanent wind systems such the trade winds,
westerlies and seasonal wind like monsoon have The first successful (1890) attempt to tap
been used as source of energy. Besides these, the underground heat was made in the city
local winds, land and sea breezes can also be of Boise, Idaho (U.S.A.), where a hot water
used to produce electricity. pipe network was built to give heat to the
India, already has started generating wind surrounding buildings. This plant is still
energy. It has an ambitious programme to install working.
250 wind-driven turbines with a total capacity
of 45 megawatts, spread over 12 suitable
locations, specially in coastal areas. The Ministry Bio-energy
of Non-conventional Sources of Energy is
Bio-energy refers to energy derived from biological
developing wind energy in India to lessen the
products which includes agricultural residues,
burden of oil import bill. The country’s potential
municipal, industrial and other wastes. Bio-
of wind power generation exceeds 50,000 energy is a potential source of energy conversion.
megawatts, of which one fourth can be easily It can be converted into electrical energy, heat
harnessed. In Rajasthan, Gujarat, Maharashtra energy or gas for cooking. It will also process the
and Karnataka, favourable conditions for wind waste and garbage and produce energy. This will
energy exist. improve economic life of rural areas in developing
Tidal and Wave Energy countries, reduce environmental pollution,
enhance self-reliance and reduce pressure on fuel
Ocean currents are the store-house of infinite wood. One such project converting municipal
energy. Since the beginning of seventeenth and waste into energy is Okhla in Delhi.
eighteenth century, persistent efforts were made
Conservation of Mineral Resources
to create a more efficient energy system from
the ceaseless tidal waves and ocean current. The challenge of sustainable development
Large tidal waves are known to occur requires integration of quest for economic
along the west coast of India. Hence, India has development with environmental concerns.
great potential for the development of tidal Traditional methods of resource use result into
energy along the coasts but so far these have generating enormous quantity of waste as well
not yet been utilised. as create other environmental problems. Hence,
for sustainable development calls for the
Geothermal Energy protection of resources for the future generations.
When the magma from the interior of earth, There is an urgent need to conserve the resources.
comes out on the surface, tremendous heat is The alternative energy sources like solar power,
wind, wave, geothermal energy are inexhaustible
released. This heat energy can successfully be
resource. These should be developed to replace
tapped and converted to electrical energy. Apart
the exhaustible resources. In case of metallic
from this, the hot water that gushes out through
minerals, use of scrap metals will enable
the gyser wells is also used in the generation of recycling of metals. Use of scrap is specially
thermal energy. It is popularly known as significant in metals like copper, lead and zinc
Geothermal energy. This energy is now in which India’s reserves are meagre. Use of
considered to be one of the key energy sources substitutes for scarce metals may also reduce
which can be developed as an alternate source. their consumption. Export of strategic and scarce
The hot springs and geysers are being used minerals must be reduced, so that the existing
since medieval period. In India, a geothermal reserve may be used for a longer period.
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EXERCISES
1. Choose the right answers of the following from the given options.
(i) In which one of the following States are the major oil fields located?
(a) Assam (c) Rajasthan
(b) Bihar (d) Tamil Nadu
(ii) At which one of the following places was the first atomic power station
started?
(a) Kalpakkam (c) Rana Pratap Sagar
(b) Narora (d) Tarapur
(iii) Which one of the following minerals is known as brown diamond?
(a) Iron (c) Manganese
(b) Lignite (d) Mica
(iv) Which one of the following is non-renewable source of energy?
(a) Hydel (c) Thermal
(b) Solar (d) Wind power
2. Answer the following questions in about 30 words.
(i) Give an account of the distribution of mica in India.
(ii) What is nuclear power? Mention the important nuclear power stations
in India.
(iii) Name non-ferrous metal. Discuss their spatial distribution.
(vi) What are non-conventional sources of energy?
3. Answer the following questions in about 150 words.
(i) Write a detailed note on the Petroleum resources of India.
(ii) Write an essay on hydel power in India.
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