{"id":2789,"date":"2026-04-01T11:35:16","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T06:05:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/beachmineral.com\/?p=2789"},"modified":"2026-04-01T11:35:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T06:05:16","slug":"beach-mineral-histroy-in-india-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beachmineral.com\/ta\/beach-mineral-histroy-in-india-part-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Beach Mineral Histroy in India – Part-1"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brief Note about Beach Mineral Industries to understand the factual situation of the industry <\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n

Garnet, Ilmenite, Rutile, Leucoxene, Zircon, Monazite, Sillimanite, etc., are subsumed under broad category of beach sand minerals or otherwise called placer minerals.\u00a0 Since these all are available together, Govt., of India notified the same as associated minerals.<\/p>\n

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Mining of these placer minerals had been under the exclusive monopoly of the foreign companies prior to independence.\u00a0 After independence the foreign companies disbanded their mining activities.\u00a0 Taking into the consideration the larger interest of the welfare of the workers and others who were under the employment of the foreign companies, Govt. of India in their wisdom took over the mining activities.\u00a0\u00a0 Consequently in 1965, Govt. of India amalgamated all the fragmented companies and formed an unified company called Indian Rare Earths Ltd (Ref page 348 of Kanyakumari District Gazetteer, 1995).\u00a0 This company IREL had upfront mining leases and factories at Manavalakurichi, Kanyakumari district, another at Chavara and Alappula in kerala State and third one at Chathrapur in Odisha under their control.\u00a0 In all, there were more than 700 employees of various categories working both at the mines site and at the factory.<\/p>\n

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IREL mining the beach minerals and after processing they sold within and outside India. Out of the seven minerals, monazite percentage is high in the above 3 places, hence they build the factory there. In monazite, more than 70% are rare earth elements.\u00a0 A small portion of Uranium less than 0.1% to 0.3% and Thorium 7% to 9%.\u00a0 Since Uranium and Thorium has radiation, this monazite is a radioactive mineral. The reason for the exclusive right being given to Indian Rare Earths Limited for handling these radioactive substances is borne out of the fact that these Uranium and Thorium have \u201cradiation effects\u201d causing health hazards to the workers.<\/p>\n

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M\/s.IREL has not shown much interest in\u00a0 other areas in view of the fact that the content of the radioactive substance is relatively insignificant and almost Nil.\u00a0 Since there was not much demand for Garnet , Sillimanite, etc., minerals at those times , M\/s.IREL did not have keen interest in searching for those beach minerals.<\/p>\n

-To be Cont..-<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Brief Note about Beach Mineral Industries to understand the factual situation of the industry Garnet, Ilmenite, Rutile, Leucoxene, Zircon, Monazite, Sillimanite, etc., are subsumed under broad category of beach sand minerals or otherwise called placer minerals.\u00a0 Since these all are available together, Govt., of India notified the same as associated minerals.   Mining of these … Continue reading “Beach Mineral Histroy in India – Part-1”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"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":[13,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beach-sand-mining","category-blog"],"translation":{"provider":"WPGlobus","version":"3.0.3","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\/2789","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beachmineral.com\/ta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2789"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/beachmineral.com\/ta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2789\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2792,"href":"https:\/\/beachmineral.com\/ta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2789\/revisions\/2792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/beachmineral.com\/ta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beachmineral.com\/ta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beachmineral.com\/ta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}