Mumbai: Hindustan Zinc Ltd (HZL) has kicked off an expansion project worth ₹12,000 crore to add a capacity of 250 kilo tonnes per annum (ktpa), marking the first phase of its ambitious plan to ...

These elements are extracted from monazite sand in Kochi, Kerala, but mining and processing facilities there are limited. Local opposition and environmental concerns further restrict operations.

New Delhi’s decision to auction, for the first time in the country, 13 offshore mineral blocks for deep-sea mining, vide the Offshore Areas Mineral (Development and Regulation) Amendment Act, 2023, ...

IMAGE: The Fisheries Coordination Committee Kerala protest against the central government's sea sand mining project at Jantar Mantar in New Delhi, March 12, 2025.

In an exclusive interview with House Digest, Sam Arthurs elaborates on the downsides of using sand and gravel in pots without drainage. "The cons to using sand is that you're basically putting a ...

The first four minerals are ‘prescribed’ or ‘atomic’ minerals. In 1909, Schomberg of Germany found exportable quantities of monazite at Travancore (Kerala). For a decade from 1922, India was the main ...

The central government owned IREL (India) has proposed to invest about Rs 35 crore (Rs 350 million) to mine beach sand mineral ore (BSM Ore) consisting of a suite of Monazite, Zircon, Ilmenite ...

The saga of Kerala's rare mineral sand, corruption and coast deterioration By K A Shaji Apr 10, 2024 08:37 PM IST ...

The century-long history of Kerala’s black sand mining has been marked by the forces that shaped the 20th century. They range from global advances in science and technology to colonialism ...

Abundant in the beach sand deposits along coastal areas like Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Odisha, and West Bengal, monazite is a phosphate mineral containing thorium, uranium, and rare ...