The presence of the minerals ilmenite, rutile, zircon, monazite, leucoxene (brown ilmenite), sillimanite and garnet in coastal sand dunes of Kollam was discovered in 1920s.

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The Report of National Cancer Registry Programme 2020, released on Tuesday, has found that two districts in the state — Thiruvananthapuram a ...

Karunagappally is known for high background radiation from thorium-containing monazite sand and the study set out to explore the lung and other cancer risks increased by exposure to high-level ...

The report had said that Alappad and several villages on the coasts of Kollam and Alappuzha in southern Kerala are rich repositories of black sand that contain important minerals like monazite ...

The ruins of 476 houses haunt the Thottappally hamlet on the southern edges of Kerala's Alappuzha district. These houses were abandoned by the local fishing community after they sustained long ...

According to Kerala’s Minister for Irrigation and Water Resources, the need for a system to assess the impact of beach-sand-mining in the state has become imperative.

The radioactivity of thorium found in beach sand is in the range of 0.32-6.44 becquerel per kilogram. However, radioactivity of thorium in monazite sand, it is 322 bq/kg, points out the petition ...

KOCHI: Amid allegations of opening up the fisheries sector to corporates, the Union government’s move to allow offshore mining of construction sand has triggered resentment in Kerala. While ...

It should be mentioned that in accordance with general usage, as, for example, in the annual article in “Mineral Industry”, monazite sand was used to cover other sources of thoria.