The mining industry is involved in the extraction of precious
minerals and other geological materials. The extracted materials are transformed into a mineralized
form that serves economic benefit to the prospector of miner
The total recoverable reserves of iron ore in India are about 9,602 million tons of hematite and 3,408
million tons of magnetite. Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh, Karnataka, Jharkhand, Andhra Pradesh,
Maharashtra, Kerala, Rajasthan and Tamil Nadu are the principal Indian producers of iron ore.