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The manganese belt of Madhya Pradesh alloyable, malleable and ductile. It is also mixed extends in a belt in Balaghat-Chhindwara- with gold to provide strength to jewellery. Nimar-Mandla and Jhabua districts. The Copper deposits mainly occur in Karnataka is another major producer and here Singhbhum district in Jharkhand, Balaghat the mines are located in Dharwar, Ballari, districtinMadhyaPradeshandJhunjhunuand Belagavi, North Canara, Chikkmagaluru, Alwar districts in Rajasthan. Shivamogga, Chitradurg and Tumakuru. MinorproducersofCopperareAgnigundala Maharashtra is also an important producer of manganese, which is mined in Nagpur, inGunturDistrict(AndhraPradesh),Chitradurg Bhandara and Ratnagiri districts. The andHasandistricts(Karnataka)andSouthArcot district (Tamil Nadu). disadvantage to these mines is that they are located far from steel plants. Non-metallic Minerals Telangana, Goa, and Jharkhand are other minor producers of manganese. Among the non-metallic minerals produced in India, mica is the important one. The other Non-Ferrous Minerals minerals extracted for local consumption are limestone, dolomite and phosphate. India is poorly endowed with non-ferrous metallic minerals except bauxite. Mica Mica is mainly used in the electrical and Bauxite electronic industries. It can be split into very Bauxite is the ore, which is used in thin sheets which are tough and flexible. Mica manufacturing of aluminium. Bauxite is found in India is produced in Jharkhand, Andhra mainly in tertiary deposits and is associated Pradesh, Telanganga and Rajasthan followed with laterite rocks occurring extensively eithby Tamil Nadu, West Bengal and Madhya on the plateau or hill ranges of peninsular InPradesh. In Jharkhand, high quality mica is and also in the coastal tracts of the country. Odisha happens to be the largest producerobtained in a belt extending over a distance of about 150 km, in length and about 22 km, in of Bauxite. Kalahandi and Sambalpur are the width in lower Hazaribagh plateau. In Andhra leading producers. The other two areas which Pradesh, Nellore district produces the best have been increasing their production are Bolangir and Koraput. The patlands of quality mica. In Rajasthan, mica belt extends Lohardaga in Jharkhand have rich deposits. for about 320 kms from Jaipur to Bhilwara and around Udaipur. Mica deposits also occur Gujarat, Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh and in Mysuru and Hasan districts of Karanataka, Maharashtra are other major producers. Coimbatore, Tiruchirapalli, Madurai and Bhavanagar, and JamnagarinGujarathavethe major deposits. Chhattisgarh has bauxite Kanniyakumari in Tamil Nadu, Alleppey in deposits in Amarkantak plateau while Katni- Kerala, Ratnagiri in Maharashtra, Purulia and Bankura in West Bengal. Jabalpur area and Balaghat in M.P. have important deposits of bauxite. Kolaba, Thane, Energy Resources Ratnagiri, Satara, Pune and Kolhapur in Maharashtra are important producers. Tamil Mineral fuels are essential for generation of Nadu, Karnataka and Goa are minor producers power, required by agriculture, industry, ofbauxite. transport and other sectors of the economy. Mineral fuels like coal, petroleum and natural Copper gas (known as fossil fuels), nuclear energy minerals, are the conventional sources of Copper is an indispensable metal in the electrical industry for making wires, electricenergy. These conventional sources are motors, transformers and generators. It is exhaustible resources. Mineral and Energy Resources 57 Reprint 2026-27