On the way up: Industrial minerals in India
By IM Staff
Published: Thursday, 22 February 2018
India has recorded economic growth of around 7% per year in the past three years. But while it has significant resources of some of the most widely used industrial minerals, this sector has shown only modest growth, as Industrial Minerals correspondent Sunder Singh discovers.
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India holds the prospect of great
mineral wealth but it is all underground.
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India has achieved 100% self-sufficiency in the supplies of
industrial minerals including barites, chromite, feldspar,
fireclay, limestone, magnesite, rutile, sillimanite, silica
minerals, talc and wollastonite.
The country also exports barites, bentonite, feldspar,
garnet...