Mineral Wealth of Madhya Pradesh

The State of Madhya Pradesh is richly endowed with Mineral Wealth. It is the soleproducer of Diamond in the country.

Diamond: State is proud of having only diamond mine in the country. A total reserve of976.05 thousand carats has been estimated in the Panna district. The National MineralDevelopment Corporation Ltd. is operating the only mechanized diamond mine atMajhgawan in the Panna district since 1958 is now producing 81000 carats of diamondannaually. Besides this about 400 carats is also being produced from the "shallowdiamond mines" in Panna and part of Satna distinct

Coal: Coal reserves of 16027.07 million tonnes are spread over in the district of Sidhi,Shahdol, Umaria, Betul, Chhindwara, and Narsinghpur; which is 7.71% of total Coalreserve of country. Subsidiary companies of Coal India Limited namely, NCL (NorthernCoal Field Limited) is working in the Sidhi district, WCL (Western Coal Field Limited) inthe Chhindwara and Betul districts and SECL (South Eastern Coal Field limited) in theShahdol and Umaria districts. The Gotitoriya coal block of Narsinghpur district has beenleased out to M/S BLA Industries for captive power generation.  The country's thickestcoal seam viz Jhingurda; which is 135 m thick, occurs in the Singrouli Coal Field ofNorthern Coal Field Limited.

Limestone: Madhya Pradesh is having vast reserves of limestone. The total reserves oflimestone is 3625.98 million tonnes spread over in districts of Damoh, Hoshangabad,Mandsaur, Narsinghpur, Rewa, Satna, Panna, Katni, Sagar, Dhar, Khargone, Jhabua,Balaghat, Sidhi and Morena. Seven major Cement plants are operating in the State withthe annual installed capacity of 15.97 million tonnes.  The details of Cement plantsoperating in the State are as follows: -

S.No. Name District AnnualInstalledcapacity (InMillion tonnes)

Expansionproposed (InMillion tonnes)

1. J.P. Cement Ltd. Rewa 4.20 1.302. A.C.C. Ltd. Kymore Katni 2.20 1.323. Birla Corporation Ltd. Satna 1.554. Prism Cement Ltd. Satna 2.005. Maihar Cement Ltd. Satna 2.006. Diamond Cement Ltd. Damoh 1.027. Vikram Cement Ltd. Neemuch 3.00

Manganese: State is enriched with good deposit of manganese ore mainly spread overin the Balaghat, Chhindwara and Jhabua districts. The total reserve of 23.64 milliontonnes of manganese ore is available in the State constituting 14.09% of total nationalreserve. The "Bharveli manganese mine" in Balaghat district is largest underground mineoperating in Asian sub-continent. The manganese ore deposits of the State are beingexploited mainly by the Manganese Ore India Limited. During the year 2001-02,manganese ore has contributed Rs. 1.51 crores as royalty to the State Exchequer.

Bauxite: Reserve of 63.87 million tonnes of bauxite is spread over in Shahdol, Mandla,Balaghat, Rewa, Satna and Katni districts. Bauxite of Katni and Satna districts is ofhigher grade and being used in refractory units of the State.

Copper-Ore: Malajkhand; the country's largest open cast copper ore mine, is situated inBalaghat district. The State has 190.84 million tonnes of Copper ore reserves in Balaghatdistrict, which is 41.39% of total national reserve. The Hindustan Copper Ltd. isexploiting the copper ore from this mine.

Dolomite: The State is enriched with steel grade, refractory grade and low silicadolomite. 1152.66 million tonnes of dolomite deposits are spread over in the districts ofBalaghat, Chhatarpur, Sagar, Mandla, Jabalpur, Katni, Sidhi, Narshinghpur, Seoni,Jhabua, Khandwa and Dewas.

Fire Clay: The fire clay deposits occurring mainly in Shahdol, Gwalior, Kanti, Jabalpurand Sidhi districts has led to establishment of number of refractory and some ceramicindustries in the State.

Slate: State is the sole producer of slate in the country. White and red coloured slatefound in the Mandsaur district used mainly in producing state pencil.

Pyrophyllite/Diaspore: Rich deposits of pyrophyllite and diaspore occurs in the State.A total of 207.74 million tonnes of pyrophyllite and diaspore reserves are spread overmainly in the districts of Chhatarpur, Tikamgarh and Shivpuri; constituting 81.66% ofcountry's reserves.

Are the main minerals occurring in the State. Besides these minerals, the state is fastemerging as a Dimension Stones producer.

Dimension Stones of Madhya Pradesh

Madhya Pradesh - A Store House of Stones Too

Stones have been adored from time immemorial for its natural beauty, varied colors,durability, hardness and permanency. Madhya Pradesh; the sole producer of Diamondsin the country, is richly endowed by nature with a variety of "STONES" besidessignificant deposits of Coal, Phyrophyllite-Diaspore etc.

Multicolor and Black Granites, exotic varieties of Marble as well as Sandstone (Flagstone)constitutes the most important stone wealth of the State. From the lofty VindhyanSandstones the GWALIOR FORT to the world renowned majestic KHAJURAHO TEMPLEShave been built.

Granite: In today's fast paced world where art is struggling to keep up with thetechnology, there is a need for material that combines natural beauty, vivid colours ofnature and strength. Obviously the best choice is Granite which has played a vital role inintriguing structures of Yesteryears in form of sculptures is now also sought after as thebest-polished material for floors and walls among other things.

The Chhatarpur, Panna, Sagar, Datia and Shivpuri districts of Bundelkhand region hostmassive medium to coarse grained equigranular as well as porphyritic varieties of pink,red and grey granites.

M/s. Fortune stone Ltd; a joint venture company with The M.P. State Mining CorporationLtd. engaged in mining the "Jhansi Red" / "Fortune Red " granites from Katera, GarhiMalhera areas of Chhatarpur district is exporting the Raw Gangsaw size blocks mainly toKorea, Indonesia and Far East Countries.

The most promising areas for multicolour and black granites in the Bundelkhand regionare Pista, Bira, Laulas and Baruli in Panna district; Katera, Garhi-Malhera, Hardwar inChhatarpur district; Bagrohi and East Shahgarh in Sagar district; Janakpur-Nargarh,Malkhanpur, Sikaua and Baruni in Datia district and Sarh in Shivpuri district.

The Satpura region of the State also holds a good potential for " exclusive patternedvarieties" of diamension stones. In Balaghat, Seoni and Betul districts of Satpura regionbesides common varieties similar to "Jhansi Red" "Sira Grey" and "Disco-Grey" whichare massive variety with uniform colour and grainsize, patterned varieties similar to"Tiger-Skin" "Ranjita Zuparana", "Paradiso" are also available.

The most promising areas for granites in Satpura region are Kachewara, Bhuriyagaon,Nagarwara, Kholwa, Maneri and Kanjai in Balaghat district; Berghat block in Seonidistrict and Kesai, Jamundhana and Kacharboh in Betul district.

A tentative possible reserve of 0.861 million cubic meters of Black Granite and 21.279million cubic meters of Multicolour Granite down to a depth of 10 meters has alreadybeen estimated by none other than the Geological Survey of india. 

Marble: A Marble block from the Jabalpur district was sent to Paris Exhibition in the year1865, was pronounced to be equal to Italian Marble. However the mining, sawing andexport of Marble commenced a couple of years back due to the pioneering efforts ofentrepreneurs from Rajasthan.

Madhya Pradesh in now fast emerging as Marble producing state in the country. Exoticvarieties of Marble are available in Katni, Jabalpur, Narsinghpur, Harda, Sidhi and Jhabuadistricts. Number of fully mechanised mines is already in operation in the state. There isample scope for opening new marble mines as well as for establishing cutting andpolishing units in the state. Export of KATNI MARBLE has already commenced tonumber of countries viz.-Sharjah (U.A.E.), Yeman, Kuwait, Nigeria, Manama, and NewYork. 

STONE PARK: Keeping pace with the economic development policy of the State; with aview to develop the Marble deposits of Katni district, development of a STONE PARK overan area of 120 Acres has already commenced near Sleemnabad to house 40 units. Theday is not far off when Katni-Jabalpur road will be known as latest MARBLE HUB of India.

Sandstone: Extensive deposits of white, buff, cream, pink and red coloured Sandstone(Flagstone) occurs in the Shivpuri, Guna, Gwalior, Panna, Vidisha, Raisen and Sagardistricts. The best diposits occurring in Shivpuri and Panna districts are amicable tocutting and polishing is being exported mainly to Gulf countries for construction ofgigantic mosques. There is ample scope for opening new mines and establishing cuttingand polishing units in the said districts of the States. At present about 200 medium tosmall sandstone cutting and polishing units are in operation mainly in the Gwalior,Shivpuri, Panna, Vidisha and Raisen districts.

Pyrophyllite: Rich deposits of pyrophyllite occurs on the State. A total of 207.74 milliontonnes of pyrophyllite reserves are spread over mainly in the districts of Tikamgarh,Chhatarpur and Shivpuri constituting about 82% of country's reserves. The pyrophyllitedeposits of the State are extensively used in carving handicrafts, flower vases, tablelamps, chess boards, toys, wine glasses, coasters and made to order decorative itemstoo besides industrial uses.

The Stone industry in the State is certain to prosper more and more with the kind ofnature's endowment and appropriate entrepreneurship. Entrepreneurs willing to enterStone mining in Madhya Pradesh are requested to Log on our website or the E-mail givenat the end.

The State is blessed with favorable geological and geotectonic settings. Rocks rangingfrom Precambrian to recent era to accommodate every episode of mineralisation arepresent. 

Geology of Madhya Pradesh

 

The oldest group of rocks comprising of Archaeans andProterozoic formation constitute nearly 45% area of the State.The next younger formation of Carboniferous to lowerCretaceous comprising Gondwana Super Group covers 10%area while the formation of Cretaceous to Paleocenecomprising mostly of Deccan Trap basalt constitutes 38% areaof the State. A brief geological succession can be expressed asfollows:  

Geological SuccessionPeriod/Sub Period

 

  Age GeologicalFormation

Associated Mineral Deposits

  Recent   1 M.Y.   Alluvium   Recent

Pliestocene 18 M.Y.

 

Laterite &Bauxite

Bauxite deposits of Rewa, Satna etc.

Cretaceous toPalaeocene

64 to

97 M.Y.

Deccan TrapBasalt, Bagh,Lametas(Infra -trappean)

Gem varieties of Quartz, Road material,Limestone deposit of Dhar, Jhabua district.

Upper Carboniferousto lower Cretaceous

97 to

320 M.Y.

GondwanaSupergroup

Coal deposits of Betul, Sidhi, Shahdol andChhindwara, Jabalpur, districts. Claydeposits of Katni, Shahdol district etc.

Proterozoic - III 570 to

900 M.Y.

BhanderGroup

Rewa Group

Limestone deposits of Damoh, Katnidistricts etc. Conglomeratic Diamond fieldof Panna district.

Proterozoic 900 to

1800 M.Y.

Kaimur Group

Semri Group

Diamondiferous kimberlites of pannadistt., limestone deposits of mandsaur,rewa, satna distt. Lead-zinc deposits ofdamoh distt.

Proterozoic I to II - GwaliorGroup,

Bijawar Group

   Chilpi Group

Rock Phosphate of Sagar distt. Dolomitedeposit of Mandla district, Iron ore depositof Jabalpur district (uneconcmic)

Minor occurrences of Mn ore.

Proterozoic - I 1600 to

2500 M.Y.

SausarGroup

Aravalli Group

Manganese deposit of Balaghat andChhindwara distt., Copper deposit ofBalaghat. Phosphorite and Mn deposits ofJhabua distt.

Archaean toProterozoic - I

 

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Sakoli GroupBundelkhandgranite

Pyrophyllite-Diaspore of Tikamgarh,Chhatarpur distt., Granite for cutting /polishing.

Archaean Older than2500 M.Y.

AmgaonGrouppeninsulargneisses, Oldergranites andMigmatites.

 

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In terms of the mineral production the state ranks third next only to Jharkhand andChhatisgarh

Mineral Production In Madhya Pradesh in the Year 2008-09  (Up to Dec 08)

(Source: Indian Bureau of Mines)

        S.No.

Name ofMineral

Unit ofProduction

 

Production Status ofM.P. inIndia(%)

Status  inMineral

ProducingStates of the

Country 

1 Diamond Carat 498 100 FIRST

2 Slate Tonnes 0 0 ----

3 Pyrophyllite Tonnes 118201 79.12 FIRST

4 Diaspore Tonnes 8701 43.75 SECOND

5 Copper Ore ThousandTonnes

1202 54.76 FIRST

6 Coal ThousandTonnes

51426 15.10 FOURTH

7 Limestone ThousandTonnes

19312 12.79 THIRD

8 Iron Ore ThousandTonnes

718 0.46 SEVENTH

9 Dolomite ThousandTonnes

114 3.64 SEVENTH

10 Laterite Tonnes 55312 5.32 FIFTH

11 Rock-phosphate ThousandTonnes

162 12.30 SECOND

12 Ochre Tonnes 4122 0.80 THIRD

13 Calcite Tonnes 0 0 ----

14 Manganese-Ore ThousandTonnes

439 21.32 THIRD

15 Fire clay Tonnes 24413 8.77 SIXTH

16 Steatite Tonnes 0 0 ----

17 Bauxite ThousandTonnes

705 6.09 SIXTH

18 Kaolin Tonnes 6900 0.53 SEVENTH

19Shale Thousand

Tonnes414 18.42 THIRD

20Clay (Others) Thousand

Tonnes95 19.40 SECOND

21 Quartz Tonnes 0 0 ----

22 Silica Sand Tonnes 40 0.002 ELEVENTH

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