Mining mafia targets Indian feldspar
By Nilima Choudhury
Published: Monday, 10 February 2014
Police in Rajasthan arrest five people on suspicion of illegal mining activities
Reports from India’s
department of mining have revealed that a ‘mining
mafia’ is illegally extracting feldspar, mica and quartz
from government land, agricultural fields and hills in Pushkar,
Rajasthan.
Rajasthan is the principal feldspar producing state in the
country. It is used as a convenient source...