India has produced minerals worth Rs 1.13 lakh crore (provisional) in Fiscal Year 2017-18 (FY18), as against Rs 1 lakh crore (provisional) minerals produced in 2016-17, showing a growth of 13%. The mining sector in the country is characterised by a large number of small operational mines.
The Ministry of Mines’ data showed that the total value of mineral production (excluding atomic and fuel minerals) during 2017-18 has been estimated at Rs 1,13,541 crore. Besides, the estimated value for metallic minerals is Rs 53,029 crore and that of non-metallic minerals, including minor minerals, is Rs 60,512 crore. As per the report, the value of non-metallic minerals like diamond, garnet (abrasive), limeshell, limestone, magnesite, phosphorite, sillimanite and wollastonite stood at Rs 7,414.53 crore.
The number of mines, which reported mineral output, excluding atomic, fuel and minor minerals, in the country was 1,531 in 2017-18 compared to 1,508 in 2016-17. Out of 1,531 reporting mines, 230 are located in Tamil Nadu, followed by 197 in Madhya Pradesh, 191 in Gujarat, 142 in Karnataka, 132 in Odisha, 129 in Andhra Pradesh, 112 in Chhattisgarh, 87 in Goa, 85 in Rajasthan, 75 in Maharashtra and 58 in Jharkhand. These ten states together accounted for 94% of total number of mines in the country in the last fiscal.
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