The Union Government on Thursday stated that five. nine million tonnes of lithium reserves were discovered for the primary time withinside the us of a in Jammu and Kashmir.
Lithium is a non-ferrous steel and is one of the key additives in EV batteries.
“Geological Survey of India for the primary time mounted Lithium inferred resources (G3) of five. nine million tones withinside the Salal-Haimana vicinity of the Reasi district of Jammu and Kashmir,” the Ministry of Mines stated on Thursday. It in addition that fifty one mineral blocks together with Lithium and Gold had been surpassed over to respective country governments.
“Out of those fifty one mineral blocks, five blocks pertain to gold and different blocks pertain to commodities like potash, molybdenum, base metals etc. unfold throughout eleven states of Jammu and Kashmir (UT), Andhra Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Gujarat, Jharkhand, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Odisha, Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu, and Telangana,” the ministry added.
The blocks had been organized primarily based totally at the paintings achieved via way of means of GSI from area seasons 2018-19 to until date. Apart from these, 17 reviews of Coal and Lignite with a complete aid of 7897 million tones had been additionally surpassed over to the Ministry of Coal. Seven Publications on unique topics and intervention regions wherein GSI operates had been additionally launched in the course of the meeting.
“The proposed Annual Programmed for the following Field Season 2023-24 changed into supplied and mentioned in the course of the meeting. During the following yr 2023-24, GSI is taking over 966 programmed comprising 318 mineral exploration tasks together with 12 marine mineral research tasks,” the ministry in addition stated. The Geological Survey of India has installation a hundred and fifteen tasks on strategic and important minerals and sixteen tasks on fertilizer minerals.
“fifty five programmed on ecoinformatics, a hundred and forty programmed on essential and multidisciplinary geosciences, and a hundred and fifty five applications for education and institutional potential constructing have additionally been taken up,” the Mines ministry stated.
The Geological Survey of India (GSI) changed into mounted in 1851 to locate coal deposits for the Railways. Over the years, GSI has now no longer simplest grown right into a repository of geo-technological know-how statistics required in diverse fields withinside the us of a however has additionally attained the reputation of a geo-clinical employer of worldwide repute.
Its primary features relate to growing and updating of countrywide geoscientific statistics and mineral aid assessment. These targets are accomplished thru floor surveys, air-borne and marine surveys, mineral prospecting and investigations, multi-disciplinary geoscientific, geo-technical, geo-environmental and herbal risks studies, glaciology, seism-tectonic take a look at and sporting out essential research.
GSI’s leader function consists of offering objective, independent and updated geological know-how and geoscientific statistics of all kinds, with a focal point on policy-making decisions, and business and socio-monetary needs.
