Tag: crucial minerals

India’s import on four critical minerals - lithium (apart from lithium ion), cobalt, nickel and copper – was around ₹34,800 crore in FY23, and reliance across these minerals is anywhere between 93 per cent and 100 per cent. Highest import was in copper ore and concentrate category which was to the tune of ₹27,400 crore-odd; and nearly 11,78,920 tonnes of the mineral were shipped into the country last fiscal. Import reliance was 93 per cent, as per a response by Union Minister of Mines, Pralhad Joshi, in Parliament....