{"id":152,"date":"2014-03-21T08:39:57","date_gmt":"2014-03-21T08:39:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beachminerals.org\/?p=152"},"modified":"2021-09-23T15:11:57","modified_gmt":"2021-09-23T09:41:57","slug":"nod-extra-mining-indian-ocean-bed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beachmineral.com\/ta\/nod-extra-mining-indian-ocean-bed\/","title":{"rendered":"Nod for Extra Mining in Indian Ocean Bed"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<div>\n<p>In line with its efforts to expand its footprint in the strategically important Indian Ocean, India has got a go-ahead from the International Seabed Authority (ISA) for exploration of minerals in another 10,000 sq km area in the South-West Indian Ocean.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>New Delhi already has exploration rights in around 75,000 sq km area in the Indian Ocean.<\/p>\n<p>The Union Ministry of Earth Sciences has submitted an application with the ISA, a UN body that administers mineral resources in the international seas and regulates deep-sea mining activities, for getting exploration rights in 10,000 sq km area.<\/p>\n<p>According to ministry sources, the proposal was cleared by the ISA at its meeting last month and now it will be submitted before the UN Assembly in July for a final approval.<\/p>\n<p>New Delhi had made a similar representation to\u00a0 the Jamaica-headquartered ISA in July. \u201cWe got the ISA approval for exploration rights in 10,000 sq km area in South-West India Ocean and now it will go to the UN Assembly for final approval,\u201d the sources said adding that following the ISA clearance the rest was now just a formal process.<\/p>\n<p>In 2002, India had got exploration licence for polymetallic nodules, which apparently contain many valuable minerals such as copper, zinc, gold, silver and nickel, in the central Indian Ocean.<\/p>\n<p>The licence is set to expire in 2017 and New Delhi is in trying to assess whether it needs to get the same renewed. Having a hold in the South-West Indian Ocean is also important to India from the security point of view since China already has its presence in the key ocean waters.<\/p>\n<p>Beijing\u00a0 along with the other Western countries was among the first few countries to have got licences to explore the mineral-rich Indian Ocean in 2001.<\/p>\n<p>Infact, China has exploration rights for minerals in the North-East Pacific and South-West Indian Ocean. The offshore exploration of minerals is of utmost importance to countries like India and China since the mineral resources on land are fast-depleting.<\/p>\n<p>Source : <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newindianexpress.com\/nation\/Nod-for-Extra-Mining-in-Indian-Ocean-Bed\/2014\/03\/20\/article2119157.ece#.Uyv5poUwZdg\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.newindianexpress.com\/nation\/Nod-for-Extra-Mining-in-Indian-Ocean-Bed\/2014\/03\/20\/article2119157.ece#.Uyv5poUwZdg<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In line with its efforts to expand its footprint in the strategically important Indian Ocean, India has got a go-ahead from the International Seabed Authority (ISA) for exploration of minerals in another 10,000 sq km area in the South-West Indian Ocean.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_wpcom_ai_launchpad_first_post":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-news"],"translation":{"provider":"WPGlobus","version":"3.0.5","language":"ta","enabled_languages":["en","ta"],"languages":{"en":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false},"ta":{"title":false,"content":false,"excerpt":false}}},"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/beachmineral.com\/ta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/beachmineral.com\/ta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/beachmineral.com\/ta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beachmineral.com\/ta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beachmineral.com\/ta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/beachmineral.com\/ta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2407,"href":"https:\/\/beachmineral.com\/ta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152\/revisions\/2407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/beachmineral.com\/ta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beachmineral.com\/ta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beachmineral.com\/ta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}