Mineral Belts Of India


The following mineral belts may be identified in India:
 
MINERAL BELTS OF INDIA

o  The Chotanagpur Belt: This belt stretches over, Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh, Orissa, and West Bengal. This region is rich in coal, mica, manganese, chromite, ilmenite, bauxite, iron, phosphate, copper, dolomitr, china-clay, and limestone.

 

o The Midland Belt: This belt sprawls over the states of Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh, and Maharashtra. This belt is rich in manganese ore, bauxite, mica, copper, graphite, limestone, lignite, marble, and limestone.

 

o The Southern Belt: It stretches over the states of Karnataka and Tamil Nadu. This belt is rich in gold, iron ore, chromite, manganese, lignite, mica, bauxite, gypsum, asbestos, dolomite, ilmenite, china-clay, and limestone.

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o The Western Belt: This belt stretches over the states of Rajasthan, Gujarat and Maharashtra. The belt is rich in non-ferrous metals like copper, lead, zinc, uranium, mica, manganese, asbestos, building stonnes, precious stonnes, mineral oil, and natural gas.

 

o The South-Western Belt: This belt sprawls over Goa, Karnataka, and Kerala. It contains the deposits of iron ore, ilmenite, zircon, monazite sands, garnet, china-clay, bauxite, mica, limestone, and soapstone.

 

o The Himalayan Belt: In general, the Himalayan Belt is poor in metallic minerals. There are, however, valuable pockets of minerals, like copper, lead, zinc, bismuth, bauxite, antimony, nickel cobalt, tungsten, precious stones, gold, silver, gypsum, limestone and dolomite in the Himalayas.

 

o The Indian Ocean: The continental shelf of the Arabian Sea and the Bay of Bengal are rich in mineral oil and natural gas. The seabed also contains high grade nodules of manganese, phoshate barium, aluminium, silicon, iron, titanium, sodium, potassium, chromium, monazite, ilmenite, magnetite, and garnet.

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