India’s November mineral production rises 4.27% m-o-m

20 Jan 2012 Evaluate

India’s mineral production grew 4.27% higher in the month of November 2011 as compared to the preceding month according to the data released by ministry of mines. However, the data also showed that mining sector activity measured by the index of mineral production, registered negative growth of 4.44% during November as compared to that of the corresponding month of 2010. The recent decline in iron ore and coal production owing to ban in some key mining areas has become a major issue with mining ministry and companies.

Out of the six minerals which together contributed about 95% of the total value of mineral production in November 2011, the petroleum (crude) remained the highest contributor at Rs 5,567 crore which is 35% of Rs 15,692 crore, the total value of mineral production (excluding atomic & minor minerals) during the month under review. Coal production was next in the order of importance with a value of Rs 4,628 crore, which is around 29.49% of the total value followed by Iron Ore which contributed Rs 2,788 crore, around 18% of the total value. Natural gas (utilized), Lignite and Limestone contributed Rs 1,409 crore, Rs 301 crore and Rs 282 crore respectively which is around 9%, 2% and 2% of the total value correspondingly.

Among important minerals, production level for coal was the highest at 481 lakh tonnes registering an increase of coal 20.15% followed by lignite at 29 lakh tonnes, a growth of 9.32%. Production level of other important minerals in November 2011 were natural gas (utilized) 3764 million cu. m., petroleum (crude) 31 lakh tonnes, bauxite 1075 thousand tonnes, chromite 283 thousand tonnes, copper conc. 10 thousand tonnes, gold 108 kg., iron ore 121 lakh tonnes, lead conc. 14 thousand tonnes, manganese ore 171 thousand tonnes, zinc conc. 135 thousand tonnes, apatite & phosphorite 180 thousand tonnes, dolomite 413 thousand tonnes, limestone 199 lakh tonnes, magnesite 20 thousand tonnes and diamond 2047 carat.

In November 2011 the output of magnesite increased by 46.52%, diamond 38.22%, zinc conc. 19.44%, manganese ore 18.05%, chromite 11.60%, lead conc. 4.90%, gold 3.85%, dolomite 3.38%, bauxite 1.96 percent. However, the production of limestone decreased by 0.44%, copper conc. 2.56%, petroleum (crude) 4.13%, natural gas (utilized) 4.27%, apatite & phosphorite 5.49%, and iron ore 6.36%.

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