Indian Government is considering to introduced auction process in Uranium and Thorium – Does it mean any person can take and transport Thorium legally outside India?

India plans rare earth deposit block auction

Geological Survey of India expediting exploration work at Barmer.

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A rare earths facility in China. The country contributes 95% of the world’s total production of 150,000 tonnes of rare earth elements.

As part of its strategy to counter China’s monopoly in rare earth element production, in a first, India plans to auction one such rare earth deposit in Rajasthan.

These rare earth elements are used in modern technological devices such as smartphones, solar panels, wind mills and hybrid car components.

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“We had a detailed discussion with GSI (Geological Survey of India) and other ministry officials on rare earths in the country. We have asked GSI to speed up geophysical studies and identify the blocks for one such deposit in Rajasthan,” India’s mines secretary Balvinder Kumar told VCCircle.

According to the game plan, India’s ministry of mines has started the process of identifying rare earth deposits and has asked its technical wing, GSI, to expedite baseline exploration work at a deposit at Barmer in Rajasthan. The ministry is keen to hasten the process to expedite the deposit’s auction.

“We are going to conduct geophysical mapping of 1,000 sq. km area in Barmer for rare earth deposits. The work will be finished in a year’s time,” said Harbans Singh, director general, GSI, adding that after the process is over, blocks can be auctioned for further exploration.

The Bharatiya Janata Party-led government is credited with setting up a template for natural resource allocation in India through coal block auctions which is now being followed for other minerals. The Mines and Minerals (Development and Regulation) Amendment Act, 2015 (MMDR) allows auction of mines bearing minerals excluding coal and lignite.

A senior mines ministry official, who was part of the discussion, said that the area under consideration at Barmer may have four-five blocks. The official requested anonymity.

Monazite is the principal ore mineral for rare earths in India. India has an estimated reserve of around 12 million tonnes (MT) of monazite in the beach sand mineral placer deposits along the coastal tracts.

“Monazite contains radioactive thorium which cannot be stored and could not be mined. However, the rare earth deposits in Barmer contain low amounts of thorium, which can be extracted,” added the mines ministry official quoted above.

State-run lndian Rare Earths Ltd (IREL), under the department of atomic energy, has been processing monazite at its rare earths division at Alwaye, Kerala. IREL has recently set up a plant in Odisha to process 10,000 tonnes of monazite per annum.

Experts welcome the government’s initiative, but stressed that proper exploration needs to be done to find out the exact reserves of rare earths before it is put up for auction.

“Given the policy framework of granting mineral concessions by competitive bidding process, it is imperative that due exploration is done until the mineral resources are established to attract meaningful and competitive interested bidders for future auction,” said Anjani Agrawal, partner and India leader-metals and mining at consultancy firm EY.

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PLANNED CONSPIRACY TO PROPOGATE FALSE INFORMATION ABOUT V.V. MINERAL

PLANNED CONSPIRACY TO PROPOGATE FALSE INFORMATION ABOUT V.V. MINERAL

 (Link: https://www.facebook.com/saveearthcampaigns?fref=ts)

 

The above link was created for the spreading of false information with an intention to defame V.V. Mineral, the number one beach sand mineral producer and exporter of India. The matter was disputed  with facebook with the following documents  and based on the submissions and documents, the false information were removed from the facebook. Also criminal cases were registered against the person who had posted in the facebook and legal  proceedings are initiated. However, with an intention to make known the real facts on the whole episode, the following facts are being published. 

 

In one of the Tamil films called “Poi Satchi” (false witness) Actor Mr.Packiaraj comes to the court as witness to falsely implicate somebody purposefully for money. At the court, to make things look real he tries to attack the accused in the court and finally get the accused punished. Those who had spread the falsehoods against V.V. Mineral are more competent actors than Mr. Packiaraj.

 

V.V. Mineral organization is carrying out their activities strictly as per the approved permissions and policies and is one of the rare companies in this field in India who is sincerely doing business sticking  to  stipulated requirements. This will be evident if any body interested visits the web sites of Ministry of Environment and forest, Director General of Mines Safety and Tamilnadu  Pollution control Board etc.

PHOTOS DISPLYED STATING THAT BUILDINGS WERE AFFECTED BY MINERALS MINING:

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 Source : http://kumaritamil.com/sea-erosion-in-niththiravilai/ )

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None of the photos displayed and shown above is near any mineral mining area of V.V. Mineral. All these are taken form other areas affected by sea erosion. Visit: http://tnfidet.blogspot.in/2012/11/pictures.html

 

It is a fact that no residential building  or fisherman vallam parking areas are anywhere near the mineral mining lease areas of V.V. Mineral. Before approving mining lease, the area is inspected to see that no residential structure or fishing activity is existing in the lease areas. Sea erosion is a phenomenon existing throughout the world and the main reason is the rise in the sea level due to climate change. Out of the coastal length of 7000 km in India sea erosion occurs in more than 1400 km. There is no correlation between beach sand mining and sea erosion. The washings mined is the heavy mineral being deposited on the beach. Due to climate change, through out the world, the sea level is rising and if the climate change is not controlled, within another 50 years, even large cities of the world is likely to go under water as indicated in the book “Voice of the Oceans”.

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 Also there are many reports that say that one of the reasons for sea erosion is global warming.

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In the absence of residential houses in the beach sand mining shores, it is evident that the allegation that the beach mineral mining causes sea erosion is imaginary.  Since it is not directly linked and cannot be proved, and as sea erosion is a universal phenomenon, the interested persons are fabricating this linkage between beach mineral mining and the sea erosion purposefully. The evidences indicating the occurrence of sea erosion worldwide is given below:

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 In Tamilnadu, no mining lease is granted to any private parties in the areas where fishermen reside or where they park their vallams. The only exception is Indian Rare Earths Ltd., a central government company which is granted mining leases in the fishermen villages of Chinnavilai, Periavilai, Puthoor, Kottilpad, Kurumbbanai, Keezhmidalam and Midalam. In these mining lease areas, presently the fishermen only are mining and supplying the raw material to the company.

It can also be noted that though mining of beach minerals are allowed in the Coastal Regulation Zone, the mining has to be carried out only after getting the required clearance from the Environment ministry. V.V. Mineral has obtained all the clearances required for mining of beach minerals for all the leasehold areas. As this company is strictly operating following the clearance guidelines, none of their beach leasehold areas were affected even during the Tsunami.

Some times, the sea used to be rough and the fishermen are normally warned not to go into the sea for fishing. Hence, the fabricated complaints that beach mineral mining causes the sea erosion is totally wrong as sea erosion also occurs even in areas where this kind on mining is not done.

The following pictures clearly show that there are no houses in the mining areas of V.V. Mineral.

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The following link in which Dr. Rajamanicakam , who normally gives interviews after getting money from Mr. Daya Devadas, clearly indicates that during Tsunami, beach minerals containing upto 70% were deposited on the beaches.

 (Source: http://ramsethu.org/expert2.html)

Another important issue to be noted is that V.V. Mineral is the only organization which continuously helps the Uvari village during sea erosion by supplying the waste sand to make bunds so that the damages are minimized.

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In the facebook, it was indicated that as V.V. Mineral is mining in Periathalai area and due to this the nearby sea water had become in reddish colour. V. V. Mineral does not have any mining leases in the Periathalai location. Only Indian Garnet Sand company, in which Mr. Daya Devadas and Mr. DanushkodiAdithyan are the active owners has one lease in the Periathalai area. (G.O. No. 11 dtd 15-01-1994). Also these pictures do not seem to be of those in Periathalai and instead these are likely to be north of Thiruchendur.

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Further, by attaching the following pictures, they had indicated that due to the mining by V.V.Mineral the buildings got damaged. Actually, these damaged building are in the lease area of M/s Indian Rare Earths Limited and it is falsely stated as V.V. Mineral.

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It is pertinent to point out here that on the face book this picture was mentioned that Periyathalai in Tirunelveli District. In fact, Periyathalai is situated in Tuticorin District of Padukapathu village and V.V.Mineral has no mining lease and only Indian Garnet Sand Company belongs to Dayadevadas alone have mining lease vide G.O.Ms.No. 11  dated 15.01.94.

 

In the Uvari Panchayat President election Mrs. Thembavani Pawersingh, wife of Mr. Pawersingh contested and won against Mr. AnthonyRoy. Mr. Pawersingh is the school friend of Mr. S. Vaikundarajan. Mr. Anthony Roy, had a wrong impression that Mr. vaikundarajan is behind his defeat and hence comes out with public statements against V.V. Mineral. In realty, Mr. Anthony Roy got defeated because of the financial irregularities done by him in the village and many cases are pending and in some of the cases he had been arrested also.

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It is worthwhile to note that all but six mining leases got by V.V. Mineral is in their own patta lands and as these are near to the beach, due to wind action, the minerals are deposited in these lease areas as indicated in the picture below:

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 THE BACKGROUND OF ALL THESE FALSE ALLEGATIONS:

 This is purely business enemity between Mr. Daya Devadas and V.V. Mineral which started in 1988 due to competition in marketing their garnet product in Korea. As the quality of the product of V.V. Mineral and the straightness of the dealings (which is the speciality of the company till today), the buyer continued to do business with V.V. Mineral. ( Ref: Telex below)

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He had also written a letter to the Korean customer that V.V. Mineral is doing illegal mining. ( Ref: Letter below)

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He had been continuously wring petitions against V.V. Mineral to various government departments and even to CBI. But, all these were enquired into and rejected.

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In reality, only Daya Devadas was involved in illegal mining and was caught red handedly by authorities, when he was found guilty to have mined 12000 tons by paying royalty for only 4000 tons. In this case he was fined as per the following order:

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Even after this he had been involved in violations like mining about 39 lakh tons after paying royalty only for 3 lakh tons. In this case, the state government had found out the truth and cancelled all his mining leases. http://www.beachminerals.org/large-scale-illegal-mining-major-violations-tamilnadu-govt-determine-mining-lease-granted-southern-enterprises-belongs-dayadevadas-claim-president-federation-o/

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In order to get away from his misdoings and to divert the attention from these facts and to create problems by taking vengeance against his long term adversary V.V. Mineral, he had been conniving with retired officials by  his money power and political clout to make false statements and publications against V.V. Mineral in the media in a planned manner. After verification, all these media publicities were found to be beyond truth by the officials. One of such incident is the complaint given by retired IAS officer Mr. V. Sundaram which was enquired by both state and central officials and a report was submitted to government of India. The report can be seen in the link http://www.beachminerals.org/wild-allegations-leveled-v-v-mineral-v-sundaram-ias-found-wrong-motive-envy-vindictive-far-away-

 

The above facts can be clarified through RTI act from Government of India.

 

Mr. V. Sundaram and Dr. Rajamaniackam were in the pay roll of Mr. Daya Deavadas and conspired to give false complaints can be seen in the video link http://www.beachminerals.org/video-home in the web site www.beachminerals.org.

 

The above mentioned video depicts that Mr. V. Sundaram. IAS had accepted the fact that he had instigated Mr. Ashishkumar IAS to write the damaging report against V.V. Mineral. This clearly shows that the entire report had been fabricated with ulterior intentions. Hence, Mr. V. Vaikundarajan had obtained the related details and documents through RTI and had requested permission from the government for filing a criminal case against Mr. Ashishkumar IAS and the connected documents and details are available in the link http://www.beachminerals.org/complaint-ashish-kumar-ias-making-false-report-v-v-mineral-

 

The details of the background of Mr. Ashishkumar can be seen in the facebook posting of Mr. Vetrivel on 08-03-2015. https://www.facebook.com/iruthayaannai/posts/799585323454858

 

Further, a detailed report is being prepared to prove that the report submitted by Mr. Ashishkumar is with ulterior motive and not the truth which will be published soon.

 

Based on present indications, in the case against Mr. Ashishkumar, the preliminary enquiry by anti-corruption department had been completed, the required documents had been confiscated and proper case is filed and is under detailed enquiry by the anti-corruption department.

 

All these being going on, the group with Mr. Daya Devadas is working day and night to totally demolish the V.V. Mineral who is the number one producer of garnet mineral in the world and has an excellent reputation in producing the best quality beach sand mineral products in India and involved in further value addition of most of the minerals to fetch better revenue for the country.  V.V. Mineral is the only organization in the world having facilities from mining to value addition to pigments and paints. It is one of the two organizations in India having facilities from mining to pigments. Hence it is not unusual for the spoilers of the country to group together to finish of this organization and to bring the coterie of a political party Mr. Daya Devadas to the forefront.  With this in mind, Mr. Daya Devadas picks up the fallible media persons who sell themselves for money and ask them to continue to publish fabricated news items against V.V. Mineral. However, all these had been contested and all these fabricators had withdrawn their media reports, social media publications etc.  A specific incident is the media hype by Mrs. Santhya Ravichandran in Economic Times. When the facts were brought to the notice of the editor, he had published  a retreat of the news. Unfortunately, by misusing the democratic rights many of the media craving for instant publicity publish these kind of news without verifying the facts to enhance their DRP rating and the poor nation suffers.

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The general public may ask why V.V. Mineral is objecting CBI and other enquiries. India is a democratic country in the true sense and is not like other developed countries. V.V. Mineral supplies their products throughout the world and as per the legalities in the countries, if any governmental enquiry is in existence against any supplier organization, the products cannot be imported into the country and this is the specific point Mr. Daya Devadas group is trying to encash upon. So if by hook or crook an enquiry can be instituted on V.V. Mineral, the exports can be stopped so that Mr. Daya Devadas  can enter into the vacuum created by the absence of V.V. Mineral. The purpose of all these activities are for his own interest and not in the national interest.

 

The repeated broken record makes the noise “illegal mining”. Can anybody indicate that V.V. Mineral had mined in an area where there is no mining lease illegally (as done by Mr. Daya Deavadas), or had not paid the royalty sincerely in consonance with their exports. All these noises are made only to divert attention from the irregularities of Mr. Daya Deavdas.

 V.V. Mineral is carrying out their activities following all rules and regulations. Due to this for the last 21 years is the continuous recipient of the export award from the Government of India. Also, for the last 10 years getting award from Tuticorin port trust for the largest quantity exported through the port. Even a common man knows that all these achievement cannot come by flouting rules and by illegal means.

 

When all these could not be sold to the public, the conspirators came with a new allegation that V.V. Mineral had sold monazite.

 

Monazite is a rare earth mineral containing some quantity of thorium and uranium and it is a radioactive mineral due to the presence of thorium and uranium. The monazite mineral cannot be transported or exported like any other mineral. Other stipulations like getting clearances from Atomic Minerals Division and storage to contain radiation will be required for transportation and shipping of this mineral. As rare earths containing other minerals are available in other countries, nobody is interested in importing monazite for producing rare earths. The Government of India owned public sector company, India Rare Earth had stopped production and processing of monazite from 2004. This is evident from the reply on behalf of Prime Minister in the Rajya Sabha for the question No. 420 dated 26-11-2014. These details can also be seen in the link http://pib.nic.in/newsite/PrintRelease.aspx?relid=111923.

 

This is being released in this web site with the sole intention of stopping the malicious campaign being carried out by vested interests against Mr. Vaikundarajan  and V.V. Mineral.

 

These facts and more can be verified and unbderstood by visiting the web site of V.V. Mineral as well as the facebook VV Mineral release and also www.southernmines.org and www.coastalenvironment.org.

VV Mineral Becomes Top Exporter for the 7th Time

V.V.Mineral represented by V.Subramanian, Director, receiving the prestigious “Top Export Award” from Honourable Minister of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises Shri Kalraj Mishra.

VVM receives this award for the past 22 consecutive years and is the only producer to receive this prestigious Capexil award in the “Bulk Minerals sector” among all Heavy mineral mining companies.

 

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டெல்லியில் ஜனவரி 28ம் தேதியன்று நடைபெற்ற விழாவில் மத்திய அமைச்சர் திரு.கல்ராஜ் மிஸ்ரா அவர்கள் வி.வி.மினரல் நிறுவனத்தின் இயக்குநர் திரு.வி.சுப்பிரமணியன் அவர்களிடம் இந்தியாவின் உயர்ந்த ஏற்றுமதியாளர் விருதினை வழங்கினார்.

இந்;நிறுவனம் தாது மணல் கனிமங்கள் ஏற்றுமதியில் இந்தியாவின் சிறந்த நிறுவனமாக கடந்த 1992 முதல் மத்திய அரசின் சிறந்த ஏற்றுமதியாளர் விருதை பெற்று வருகிறது.

இந்நிறுவனம் சிறந்த உற்பத்தி முறை, சிறந்த சுற்றுப்புறச்சூழல் பராமரிப்பு, தொழிலாளர் பாதுகாப்பு முறைக்காக ஜெர்மனியை சேர்ந்த TUV நிறுவனத்திடமிருந்து ISO 9001:2008, ISO 14001:2007 & OHSAS 18001:2004 சான்றிதழ்களை பெற்றுள்ளது. இந்தியாவிலேயே அதிக எண்ணிக்கையில் தாது மணல் சுரங்க குத்தகைகளையும் சுற்றுச்சூழல் பாதுகாப்பு அமைச்சகத்திடம் இருந்து சுற்றுச்சூழல் அனுமதியும் பெற்றுள்ளது.

தூத்துக்குடி துறைமுகத்தின் வழியாக அதிக அளவு கனிமங்களை ஏற்றுமதி செய்ததற்காக தூத்துக்குடி துறைமுக சபையின் விருதையும் கடந்த 12 வருடங்களாக பெற்று வருகிறது. இந்திய அரசு இந்நிறுவனத்திற்கு “Star Trading House ” என்ற சிறப்பு அனுமதியை வழங்கி மத்திய மாநில அரசு துறைகளிடம் இருந்து முன்னுரிமை பெறுவதற்கான கிரீன் கார்டும் வழங்கி உள்ளது.

இந்நிறுவனத்தின் மூலம் ஏற்றுமதி செய்யப்படும் கனிம பொருட்கள் புவி வெப்பமயமாதலை தடுப்பதில் முக்கிய பங்கு வகிக்கிறது மற்றும்; நவீன கம்ப்யூட்டர், செல்போன், உயர்ரக கார் என எல்லா தொழில்களுக்கும் தேவையான காரணியாகவும் அமைகிறது.

சிறந்த உற்பத்தி முறை மற்றும் வேலை வாய்ப்பு வழங்குவதற்காக தகுதி வாய்ந்த பொறியாளர்கள், புவியியலாளர்கள் உட்பட தேவையான பணியாளர்களை நியமித்து ஏராளமான நபர்களுக்கு நேரடி மற்றும் மறைமுக வேலைவாய்ப்பு வழங்கி வருகிறது.

இந்நிறுவனம் ஆண்டுதோறும் ஏழை மாணவர்களுக்கு இலவச நோட்டு புத்தகம் வழங்குவதோடு, இலவச மருத்துவ வசதி வழங்குவதற்கு மருத்துவமனையும், ஏழை மாணவர்கள் கம்யூட்டர் பயில கம்யூட்டர் மையங்களையும் இலவசமாக நடத்தி வருகிறது. சுரங்க பகுதியின் அருகில் உள்ள கிராமங்களுக்கு இலவச கழிப்பறையும் அமைத்து கொடுத்துள்ளது.

கடந்த 7 வருடங்களாக இந்தியாவில் Top Exporter Award  தமிழ்நாட்டை சேர்ந்த விவி மினரல் நிறுவனத்திற்கு கிடைத்திருப்பது நம் மாநிலத்திற்கு ஒரு பெருமை தானே!!

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Illegal Monazite Export not possible – AERB Officials rules out

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Link : http://epaper.deccanchronicle.com/articledetailpage.aspx?id=2516314

Publication : Deccan Chronicle

Edition : Madurai

Date : 07.04.2015

Chairman, Indian Rare Earths Limited Mumbai highlighted the problems faced by the Heavy Mineral industry.

‘India can meet entire uranium requirement for nuclear generation domestically’

India can entirely fuel its nuclear power generation capacity from own sources without having to depend on imported uranium if the government removes restrictions on mining of monazite, an atomic mineral, by private players, says a leading industry player.Presently, only some state-owned companies like Indian Rare Earths and Kerala Metals and Minerals are allowed to mine monazite.Currently, India has nearly 5,000 MW installed capacity in nuclear generation which is majorly fired with uranium imported from countries like Australia and Canada.Monazite, which is found in abundance in India, is a rich source of uranium oxide, a mineral from which uranium is extracted. Though the official estimate puts monazite reserves in the country at 11.93 million tonne, industry’s estimate is much higher at 31 million tonne, which would yield 0.62 million tonne of uranium oxide. “If we produce uranium from our own source, we can meet out the present requirement of our country for more than 600 years,” S Vaikundrajan, chairman, VV Mineral, told UNI. VV Mineral is India’s top exporter of industrial minerals.”The government can stipulate condition that entire mined uranium will be supplied to Nuclear Power Corporation of India,”Vaikundrajan said.India has plans to expand nuclear generation capacity to 63,000 MW by 2031, which will require 10,806 tonne of uranium per year as fuel. For meeting this target and to operate the plants continuously 10,806 million tonne of Uranium will be required per year for its fuel. “In the long run, India is pursuing an indigenous nuclear technology plan comprising indigenous fast breeder reactors, pressurized heavy water reactors as well as pressurized light water reactors. Even though this is a long term plan, the requirement of uranium will continue for the operation of the existing plants,” he added.Mr Vaikundrajan said that since the government has launched ‘Make in India’s programme, it should encourage domestic mining as part of the strategy to overcome dependence on imported fuel. This would also lead to commensurate savings of forex.Monazite is also a rich source of thorium, a fuel on which India has pinned hopes for meeting fuel requirement of its nuclear generation programme at a later stage.India has huge reserves of monazite which can be used for breeder reactors, said Dilip Kumar Jena, manager, PWC. According to the Department of Atomic Energy, Andhra Pradesh has the highest reserves of 3.72 million tonnes, Tamil Nadu 2.46, Odisha 2.41 million tonnes, Kerala 1.9 million tonnes, West Bengal 1.22 million tonnes, Jharkhand 0.22 million tonnes .UNI NM ABI SV 0906

— (UNI) — C-1-1-DL0311-484003.Xml 1234

Courtesy : http://news.webindia123.com/news/articles/India/20151213/2746872.html