New Delhi: The Geological Survey of India and the Geological Directorate of Odisha have indicated gold deposits in Deogarh, Keonjhar, and Mayurbhanj districts. Earlier, the news of finding lithium treasure in the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir had come to the fore. Odisha’s Steel and Mines Minister Prafulla Mallick informed the Assembly on Monday that gold mines have been found at several places in three districts of the state.
Signs of gold reserves surfaced in the re-survey
Mines Minister Prafulla Kumar Malik said that in the last two years under the leadership of GSI, a re-survey was done at many places in these three districts. In the survey, indications of gold deposits have been revealed in many areas of Deogarh, Keonjhar, and Mayurbhanj in Odisha. These places include Dimirimunda, Kushkala, Gotipur, Gopur in Keonjhar district, Joshipur in Mayurbhanj district, Suriaguda, Ruansila, Dhushura hill and Adas in Deogarh district. Odisha’s Mining Department, Directorate of Geology, and GSI did the first survey in these areas in the 1970s and 80s. Its results were not made public then.
The question was raised in the assembly regarding the stock of gold
In fact, in the Odisha Assembly, Dhenkanal MLA Sudhir Kumar Samal asked a question related to the gold reserves in the state. In a written reply, Mines Minister Prafulla Kumar Malik informed the House about the possibility of getting gold deposits in three districts of the state. However, he did not say how big this gold reserve is. Apart from this, it is also not clear what amount of gold can be there in the gold deposits found in these three districts.
Precious lithium reserves were found in Jammu and Kashmir
Earlier, reserves of 5.9 million tonnes of precious lithium were discovered in the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir. It has the third largest reserves in the world after Chile and Australia. Now India has come to number three in the world in terms of lithium capacity. Non-ferrous metal lithium is used in making chargeable batteries used in many important things including mobile-laptop, and electric-vehicle. India is currently dependent on other countries for this rare earth element. 96 percent of the total lithium requirement in the country is imported and a huge amount of foreign exchange has to be spent for this.
