MINERAL PRODUCTION & INDUSTRIES FACT FOR COMPETITIVE EXAM

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Classification of minerals

Ferrous – iron, chromite, nickel, magnesium
Non-ferrous – Aluminum, Copper, Brass, Silver, Lead, Zinc, Tungsten
Precious minerals – Platinum, gold, silver
Nonmetallic minerals – Mica, asbestos
Fertilizer minerals – Gypsum, phosphate
Fuel minerals – Coal, petroleum, natural gas
Nuclear minerals – Thorium, uranium, zirconium

India exports – Iron, Mica, Thorium
India Imports — Petroleum, Silver, Zinc, Tin, Copper
Self-sufficient For India – Coal, Chromite, Slate, Dolomite

COAL RELATED FACT

• Production as per states top order — Jharkhand, Odisha, Chhattisgarh, Andhra
Pradesh, West Bengal, Maharashtra
• Rani gung ( w.Bengal) first coal mine in India — 1774
• jharia the largest coal mine — Jharkhand
• talcher — Odisha
• singareni — Warangal (Telangana)
• Korba — Chhattisgarh
• Terrestrial coal — NEVYALI –Tamilnadu, MACCOM– Assam, BIKANER — Rajasthan
• COAL India limited — 1974 Est

Types of coal and carbon

Pit coal — 20%,
lignite coal –40%,
Bituminous COAL –75% ,
Anthracite COAL — 90%

TOP-3 Coal Producers Country in World— CHINA, INDIA, USA
TOP-3 coal Producers state of India — JHARKHAND, CHATTISGARH, ODISHA

CRUDE OIL OR PETROLEUM

• Top 3 Crude oil Producers Country — SAUDI ARABIA, IRAN, USA
• Top 3 Petroleum Producers Country — SAUDI ARABIA, Russia, USA
• Top 3 CRUDE oil Exporter country — SAUDI ARABIA, Russia, Norway
• imports OR usage — USA, china, japan, India
• world largest refinery — Abudan, IRAN
• Highest oil refinery — Azarbyzan

INDIA OIL WELLS AND FACT

India first natural gas identified — jwalamukhi — Himachal Pradesh
India first oil wells — maccom -1866 ( Assam)
2nd oil well –digboui –1890( Assam)

Oil wells in India

ASSAM — maccom , digboui , sharkhatia , shivsagar, rudrasagar
Gujarat — khambat , Ankleshwar , aliabet , Jawahar oil well
Arunachal Pradesh — cherali , karsang
Tripura — bharamura , Hampi Bazar
Rajasthan — Mangalam, Saraswathi, rajeswari
Maharastra — Bombay high (Arabian Sea)– Indias the largest oil well, Mukta, Neelima, bassung .
Tamil Nadu — Narmin oilfield
Andhra Pradesh –Gaddi mogga , ravva , Mori, Lingala.

Total refineries in India — 20,
public sector –17,
private sector–2,
Mangalore (Karnataka)–1

NATURAL GAS FACT

CNG — Ethane, methane
LPG– propane, butane
COAL GAS — hydrogen, methane, carbon monoxide
WATER GAS — CO, H₂

India longest oil pipeline — Mundra –new Delhi –1054 km
Asia longest gas pipeline –TAPI — Turminsthan, Afghanistan, Pakistan, India –1735km
India longest natural gas pipeline — HBJ — 1150 km, Hazria, Bijapur, Jagadeshpur

IRON RESERVES AND FACT

Iron reserves — 20% available in the world
Iron production
Russia–1st place
China–2nd,
India @6th position

Types of iron

Hematite –72%,
Magnetite — 60%,
lemonite — 40%,
Cedanite –20%

TOP -3 Iron reserves State in India
1- Jharkhand,
2- Odissa ,
3-Karnataka

TOP -3 Iron production State in India
1-Karnataka
2-Odisha
3- Chattisgarh

Iron Mines in India

Iron ore mines — “BAILDILLA ” — Chhattisgarh
Siri Goa, — Goa, exports to — Iran
Kenvangundi — Karnataka, exports to — Mangalore
Mayurbung — Odisha — exports to — japan
Obalupuram mines — Andhra Pradesh — exports — china
Ratnagiri — Maharashtra — singubum exports — to Asia countries

India At MANGANESE Production: 2nd
Aluminum Production State in India: Odisha , Gujarat
COPPER Production State in India: M.P,
Name copper mines In India
K3- Rajasthan,
Singbum — Jharkhand,
Agnigundalu–Andhrapradesh
CHROMITE Production State in India: Odisha, Bihar
GOLD Production State in India: Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh
DIAMONDS Production State in India– Madhya Pradesh
SILVER Production State in India– Rajasthan
BARYTES –India 1st place in the world
MICA –India 1st place in the world
THORIUM– India, USA, Canada
URANIUM Production State in India
Jharkhand — jaduguda
AP — Nalgonda

INDIA MINERAL ZONES

Chota Nagpur plateau — Ganagpur division
Chota Nagpur plateau — Damodara division
Bundelkhand division — Madhya Pradesh
Deccan plateau — Dharvar range
Deccan plateau — Kurnool & Kadapa range ( Andhra Pradesh )
Konda lite range — eastern ghats
Vindhya range — Gujrat region
Aravalli range — Gujrat region

Industrial regions of india

Hoogly industrial region — famous — jute textile
Mumbai — Pune industrial corridor — cotton textiles
Ahmedabad — Vadodara region — cotton textiles
Delhi Mumbai Industrial Corridor
Madurai -Coimbatore — cotton textiles
Banglore -Chennai — cotton textiles
Chota Nagpur industrial region — iron & steel industry

Mineral research centers

Central mining research institute — Dhanbad
Indian school of mine — Dhanbad
Indian Bureau of Mines — Nagpur
Coal India limited — Kolkatta
The geographical survey of India — Kolkatta
Navy lite lignite corporation — Tamilnadu

First in industries in india FACT

First cotton industry — rishra — Kolkata — 1818
first iron industry — port nova — Chennai — 1830
first paper industry — srirampur — Kolkata — 1832
first modern cotton textile industry — Mumbai — 1854
first jute textile industry — rishra – Kolkatta — 1855
first ceramic industry — patraghat — Bihar — 1860
modern paper industry — ballgang — Kolkatta — 1870
Bengal ironworks limited — kutti — Bengal — 1875
woolen textile industry — Kanpur — 1876
first sugar industry — PUSA — Bihar — 1903
first phosphate fertilizer industry — ranipet– Tamil Nadu- 1906
TISCO — Tata Steel company — Sakshi — Jamshedpur — 1907
IISCO — Baranpur — Bengal — 1919
vishweryyya iron & steel — bhadravathi — Karnataka– 1923
first silk industry — Howrah — 1932
first glass industry — Firozabad — Uttar Pradesh– 1932
first fertilizer industry — Sindri — Bihar — 1951
first shipyard limited — Hindustan shipyard limited — Vizag — 1952
HMT — Hindustan machines & tools — Bangalore — 1953
BEL –Bharat electronics limited — Bangalore — 1954
synthetic rubber plant — baralie — UP –1955
BEML — Bangalore — 1964
HAL — Bangalore — 1964
BDL — Hyderabad — 1970
MIDANI — Hyderabad — 1973

IRON & STEEL INDUSTRIES

TISCO – Jharkhand — 1907–Est by J.R.D.TATA
IISCO — Baranpur – West Bengal — 1919
Visveswarya iron & steel limited– Karnataka — 1923
Bhilai steel plant — Chattisgarh — support USSR — 1959
Durgapur steel plant — w.Bengal — support BRITAIN — 1962
Rourkela steel plant — Odisha — Germany — 1969
Bokaro steel plant — Jharkhand — USSR — 1972
Vizag steel plant –Vishapatnam — USSR — 1971
SALEEM steel plant –TAMILNADU
vijayanagar steel plant –KARNATKA

LEATHER INDUSTRY –India at 1st Place
PAPER INDUSTRY — India at third place
CEMENT INDUSTRY — India at second place

AGRICULTURE BASED INDUSTRY

COTTON –India at 3rd
Woolen Production in India: Punjab, Maharashtra, UP
SILK: India at Second: INDIA
JUTE — top — India
SUGAR–India at second

Maharatna CPSEs

Bharat Heavy Electrical Limited(BHEL)
Coal India Limited(CIL)
GAIL (India) Limited
Indian Oil Corporation Limited(IOCL)
NTPC Limited
Oil & Natural Gas Corporation Limited(ONGC)
Steel Authority of India Limited(SAIL)

Navratna CPSEs

Bharat Electronics Limited
Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited
Container Corporation of India Limited
Engineers India Limited
Hindustan Aeronautics Limited
Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited
Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Limited
National Aluminium Company Limited
National Buildings Construction Corporation Limited
NMDC Limited
Neyveli Lignite Corporation Limited
Oil India Limited
Power Finance Corporation Limited
Power Grid Corporation of India Limited
Rashtriya Ispat Nigam Limited
Rural Electrification Corporation Limited
Shipping Corporation of India Limited

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