Announcement inviting proposals for funding from Start-ups MSMEs and Individual Innovators under S and T PRISM Program of Ministry of Mines

Dated: 17th April 2025 ANNOUNCEMENT inviting proposals for funding from Start-ups, MSMEs and Individual Innovators under S&T PRISM Program of Ministry of Mines (PRISM 4.0) Proposals are invited from Startups, MSMEs and Individual Innovators for up to 2 years duration, which have direct bearing on mineral and metal sector, applied and sustainable aspect of mining, metallurgy and industrial applications, for funding under “Promotion of Research and Innovation in Startups and MSMEs in Mining, Mineral Processing, Metallurgy and Recycling Sector (S&T-PRISM)” under Science and Technology Program of Ministry of Mines so as to enable them to graduate to a level where they will be able to raise investments from angel/Venture Capitalist or they will reach a position to seek loans from commercial banks/financial institutions. The funding is positioned to act as a bridge between development and commercialization of innovative technologies/products/services in a relatively hassle-free manner.

Funding support will be in the form of a grant of up to Rs. 50 lakhs for Startup, Rs. 1 Cr. for MSME and grant up to Rs. 2 Cr. may be considered for technology products requiring higher funding on the recommendation by TEC and approval by Apex Committee.

Special emphasis will be on Exploration of Critical Minerals / Mining / Extraction / Mineral processing, Metal / Alloy / Product Development, AI / ML / IoT / Software, Recycling / Waste Utilization.

The detailed advertisement with problem statements and guidelines may be seen at SATYABHAMA Portal (https://research.mines.gov.in/ ) of Ministry of Mines and JNARDDC’s website (https://www.jnarddc.gov.in/Startup-India.aspx).

Online proposals must be submitted along with all necessary enclosures in the portal -

https://research.mines.gov.in/ .

Last date of submission of proposals is 31.05.2025.

Any queries can be addressed to the email id - startups-mines@gov.inAnnexure-A Problem statements – S&T PRISM Exploration of Critical Minerals / Mining / Metal / Alloy / Product Extraction / Mineral processing Development Extraction of Nickel and Vanadium from Manufacturing of WC-Co, Chromite and Iron Ores NiCr, NiCr-Cr3C2, and Gallium Extraction from Bayer Liquor CoCrAlY Powders for Germanium Extraction from Fly Ash Hard and Wear-Resistant Production of Battery-Grade Manganese Coatings on Mining Tools Dioxide Aluminium Seat Frames Extraction of Lithium, Cobalt, Rhenium, for Trains and Buses Tantalum, and Platinum from Superalloy Utilisation of extrusion die Scraps cleaning sludge for Extraction of Europium from Electronic production of alumina Displays Replacement of cobalt Chemical Stabilizers for Jointed Rock in with other abundant Surface Mines for Slope Stabilization metals in batteries Abrasive waterjet cutting for cutting New battery technologies rocks/weakening hard rocks during such as sodium sulphur, mining aluminium-air batteries, Recovery of antimony from lamp iron-air batteries, lithium- phosphor waste independent solid-state Recovery/ extraction of critical minerals/ batteries, magnesium trace elements from tailings/ mine dumps batteries, and zinc air Extraction of vanadium from mine tailings batteries, etc., to replace of bauxite lithium-ion batteries Enhancing Spectral-Induced Polarisation Enhancing the Durability and Resistivity Methods for Accurate of Silicon-Based Anodes:

Detection of Copper and Other Mineral Addressing Volume Deposits Expansion and Electrode Sustainable and green technologies like Degradation for High- bioleaching of phosphate minerals for Capacity Lithium-Ion recovery of copper and rare earth Batteries elements Low-cost online hydrogen Sustainable recovery of niobium and analyser for molten tantalum from primary ores / secondary aluminium resources Low-cost offline metal Bulk utilisation of tool waste and BGML cleanliness analyser for mill tailing dumps for efficient recovery of molten aluminium gold and tungsten Production of Synthetic Technology for recovery of selenium and Onyx-Grade White tellurium from copper anode slimes Alumina Trihydrate Technology development for recovery of Indigenous Production of germanium from Pb-Zn circuit. Special Silica, High-Purity Recovery of indium from sphalerite ore Alumina (HPA), and Advanced chemicals for ion-exchange Specialty Chemicalscolumns with enhanced selectivity and separation efficiency for rare earth ion extraction Advanced Techniques for Beneficiation of Lean bauxite ores Technology for recovery of nickel from cyclone dust of steel recycling industry Innovative Catalytic Processes for Carbon Capture and Sustainable Chemical Production for conversion of carbon dioxide into methanol and other organic compounds Recycling / Waste Utilization / AI / ML / IoT / Software Mineral processing KPI reporting software solution to Solid state recycling of extract the critical performance Aluminium Scrap parameters from IoT-based sensors Production of Biodiesel / using PLC or DCS (Distributed Biogas as Primary and Control System) to analyse and Secondary fuel for oil-fired improve the performance and furnaces in recycling industry technological processes in aluminium Utilisation of ferro-chrome / copper sectors slag in road building and Developing low cost hyperspectral cement production cameras for non-ferrous mining Utilization of non-ferrous sector metal overburden in Ballast, Autonomous platform for intelligent Road Construction, and mapping of mine surface for Aggregates identification and targeting of copper Recovery of Zinc from and aluminium bearing minerals Electric Arc Furnace (EAF) Cyber-physical systems for mine and Induction Furnace (IF) monitoring and productivity Dust improvements for non-ferrous mining Utilisation of spent pot line for sector recovering carbon and Cordless seismic ground data refractory collection for 2-D and 3-D seismic Bulk utilisation of copper slag surveys and mine tailings