Parliament Question: CoEs under the NCMM

GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF MINES LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION No. †4454 ANSWERED ON 20.08.2025 COEs UNDER THE NCMM †4454. SHRI BRIJMOHAN AGRAWAL: Will the Minister of MINES be pleased to state: (a) the list of all critical and strategic minerals Rare Earth Elements (REEs) and Energy Critical Elements (ECEs) classified by the Government and their respective operational and non operational mines with estimated reserves in tonnes, State and UT-wise including State of Chhattisgarh; (b) the objective of Centres of Excellence (CoE) for critical minerals; (c) the details of all the CoEs functioning under National Critical Mineral Mission (NCMM) in the country, State and UT-wise including Chhattisgarh; (d) the details of the annual production of such minerals, all operational units and mines of Critical Minerals auctioned and proposed to be auctioned, State, value and type-wise of mines during the last five years; and (e) the preparations made by the Government to address the current challenges arising in the global supply chain of rare earth magnets? ANSWER THE MINISTER OF COAL AND MINES (SHRI G. KISHAN REDDY) (a) A list of 24 critical and strategic minerals has been included in part-D of the First Schedule of the Mines and Minerals (Development and Regulation) Act, 1957 (Annexure-I). Data regarding working and non-working critical & strategic mineral mines including in Chhattisgarh is placed in Annexure-II. Resource/reserve position of critical and strategic minerals is placed in Annexure-III. (b) The objectives of Centres of Excellence (CoE) are research and development in critical materials, which may lead to technology development and frontier technology role in mining, extraction, recycling, and processing value chains. (c) The Ministry of Mines has recognized following seven institutes/ labs as CoEs under NCMM are i. Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay, Maharashtraii. Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Hyderabad, Telangana iii. Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Roorkee, Uttarakhand iv. Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Indian School of Mines (ISM), Dhanbad, Jharkhand v. CSIR – Institute of Minerals & Materials Technology (IMMT), Bhubaneswar, Odisha vi. CSIR – National Metallurgical Laboratory (NML), Jamshedpur, Jharkhand vii. Non Ferrous Materials Technology Development Centre (NFTDC), Hyderabad, Telangana (d) State wise annual production and value of critical and strategic minerals produced for last five years is furnished in Annexure-IV. Details of critical mineral blocks auctioned since along with status of operationalization is available under Mining Dashboard at Ministry of Mines website (https://mines.gov.in). The Ministry of Mines is steadily working towards identification and auction of critical and strategic mineral blocks. (e) In order to secure the raw materials for rare earth magnets, Ministry of Mines has taken several initiatives, inter alia, as follows: i. Geological Survey of India (GSI) has carried out 49 nos. of Rare Earth Elements/Rare Metal (REE/RM) exploration projects in FS 2022-23, 59 nos. in 2023-24 and 78 nos. in 2024-25. GSI has taken up 94 exploration projects of REE/RM in FS 2025-26. ii. GSI has augmented 482.6 Million ton resources of REE ore at various cut-off grades in 34 exploration projects. iii. The Ministry of Mines has auctioned Nawatola-Laband REE Block located in Uttar Pradesh. Additionally, two blocks are also auctioned in which REE are associated with other minerals- Katghora Lithium Block in Chhattisgarh, Dombarahalli Phosphate Block. iv. The Ministry of Mines has funded Research and Development (R&D) projects related REE to various Institutions/Laboratories/Start-ups/ MSMEs etc. *****Annexure-I Critical and Strategic Minerals specified in Part D of First Schedule of the MMDR Act [24 minerals] 1. Beryl and other beryllium bearing minerals. 2. Cadmium bearing minerals. 3. Cobalt bearing minerals. 4. Gallium bearing minerals. 5. Glauconite. 6. Graphite. 7. Indium bearing minerals. 8. Lithium bearing minerals. 9. Molybdenum bearing minerals. 10. Nickel bearing minerals. 11. Niobium bearing minerals. 12. Phosphate (without uranium). 13. Platinum group of elements bearing minerals. 14. Potash. 15. Minerals of the "rare earths" group not containing Uranium and Thorium. 16. Rhenium bearing minerals. 17. Selenium bearing minerals. 18. Tantalum bearing minerals. 19. Tellurium bearing minerals. 20. Tin bearing minerals. 21. Titanium bearing minerals and ores (ilmenite, rutile and leucoxene). 22. Tungsten bearing minerals. 23. Vanadium bearing minerals. 24. Zirconium-bearing minerals and ores including zircon.Annexure-II Mineral wise and State wise summary of working and non-working mines of critical & strategic minerals including in Chhattisgarh state is furnished below- Mineral / State Working Non-Working Grand Total Apatite West Bengal - 1 1 Beryl Rajasthan - 2 2 Graphite Chhattisgarh 1 - 1 Jharkhand 2 9 11 Karnataka - 2 2 Kerala - 1 1 Odisha 6 6 Tamil Nadu 1 5 6 Rock Phosphate Madhya Pradesh 5 1 6 Rajasthan 1 - 1 Tin Chhattisgarh 6 8 14 Odisha - 3 3 Grand Total 22 32 54Annexure-III Critical mineral reserves as per NMI as on 01.04.2020 Sr. Mineral State Unit Reserves Remaining Total No. Resources Resources 1 COBALT Jharkhand Million 0 9 9 Nagaland tonnes 0 5 5 Odisha 0 31 31 ALL INIDA 0 45 45 2 GRAPHITE Andhra Tonnes 0 1138275 1138275 Pradesh Arunachal 0 76318257 76318257 Pradesh Chhattisgarh 5282 1330 6612 Gujarat 0 3355805 3355805 Jammu & 0 62740555 62740555 Kashmir Jharkhand 2604079 17402288 20006367 Karnataka 0 992632 992632 Kerala 15443 1419532 1434975 Madhya 0 12640000 12640000 Pradesh Maharashtra 0 1160000 1160000 Odisha 2838414 17142707 19981121 Rajasthan 0 1913554 1913554 Tamil Nadu 3100193 6605086 9705279 Telangana 0 219455 219455 Uttarakhand 0 10700 10700 ALL INIDA 8563411 203060176 211623587 3 MOLYBD- Karnataka Tonnes ENUM Ore 0 1320900 1320900 Contained 0 1719 1718.7 MoS 2 Madhya Pradesh Ore 0 8000000 8000000 Contained 0 5020 5020 MoS 2 Tamil Nadu Ore 0 17882498 17882498Contained 0 10152 10152 MoS 2 ALL INIDA Ore 0 27203398 27203398 Contained 0 16891 16891 MoS 2 4 NICKEL Jharkhand Million 0 9 9 Karnataka tonnes 0 ** ** Nagaland 0 5 5 Odisha 0 175 175 ALL INIDA 0 189 189 5 ROCK Gujarat Tonnes 0 314820 314820 PHOSPHATE Jharkhand 0 107370000 107370000 Madhya 9031093 49425938 58457031 Pradesh Meghalaya 0 1311035 1311035 Rajasthan 21845000 72003769 93848769 Uttar Pradesh 0 25773444 25773444 Uttarakhand 0 24178386 24178386 ALL INIDA 30876093 280377392 311253485 6 PLATINUM Karnataka Tonnes 0 1.50 1.50 GROUP OF Kerala of 0 0.18 0.18 METALS metal Odisha 0 14.2 14.2 (PGMs) content Tamilnadu 0 1.69 1.69 Uttar Pradesh 0 3.35 3.35 ALL INIDA 0 20.92 20.92 7 POTASH* Bihar Million 0 230 230 Jharkhand tonnes 0 152 152 Madhya 0 1244 1244 Pradesh Rajasthan 0 20572 20572 Uttar Pradesh 0 893 893 ALL INIDA 0 23091 23091 8 RARE Bihar Tonnes 0 1459 1459 EARTH Gujarat 0 424000 424000 ELEMENTS Jharkhand 0 4 4 (REE) Karnataka 0 3734 3734Maharashtra 0 2090 2090 Odisha 0 25493 25493 Uttar Pradesh 0 2948 2948 ALL INIDA 0 459727 459727 9 TIN Chhattisgarh Tonnes Ore 2101 29795176 29797277 Metal 974 15910 16884 Haryana Ore 0 53910000 53910000 Metal 0 86221 86221 Odisha Ore 0 15618 15618 Metal 0 653 653 ALL INIDA Ore 2101 83720794 83722895 Metal 974 102783 103757 10 TITANIUM Andhra Tonnes 0 76733874 76733874 Pradesh Jharkhand 0 26603767 26603767 Karnataka 0 13862094 13862094 Kerala 2370712 117607659 119978371 Maharashtra 303551 3980786 4284337 Meghalaya 0 3345000 3345000 Odisha 12654141 53019062 65673202 Tamil Nadu 670221 113677284 114347505 West Bengal 0 2279000 2279000 ALL INIDA 15998625 411108526 427107150 11 TUNGSTEN Andhra Tonnes Pradesh Ore 0 14802300 14802300 Contained 0 20263 20263 WO 3 Haryana Ore 0 2230000 2230000 Contained 0 3568 3568 WO 3 Karnataka Ore 0 36677818 36677818 Contained 0 6235 6235 WO 3Maharashtra Ore 0 10122250 10122250 Contained 0 18591 18591 WO 3 Rajasthan Ore 0 23928294 23928294 Contained 0 93708 93708 WO 3 Tamil Nadu Ore 0 250000 250000 Contained 0 50 50 WO 3 Uttarakhand Ore 0 658000 658000 Contained 0 705 705 WO 3 West Bengal Ore 0 763802 763802 Contained 0 1531 1531 WO 3 ALL INIDA Ore 0 89432464 89432464 Contained 0 144650 144650 WO 3 12 VANADIUM Karnataka Tonnes Ore 0 19384430 19384430 Contained 0 49498 49498 V O 2 5 Maharashtra Ore 0 384630 384630 Contained 0 1539 1539 V O 2 5 Odisha Ore 0 4864795 4864795 Contained 0 13558 13558 V O 2 5 ALL INIDA Ore 0 24633855 24633855 Contained 0 64594 64594 V O 2 5 13 ZIRCON Kerala Tonnes 156509 1240355 1396864 Odisha 476672 390247 866919Tamil Nadu 36285 43833 80118 ALL INIDA 669466 1674435 2343901 ** negligible * contains glauconite, polyhalite and sylvite figures rounded offAnnexure-IV State-wise Production of Critical & Strategic Minerals during the Last Five Years 2020-21 2021-22 2022-23(P) 2023-24(P) 2024-25(P) State District Quan Quan Quan Value Quan Value Quan Value Value Value tity tity tity s tity s tity s Graphite (Tonne) CHHATTISG SURGUJ ARH A 1701 2041 0 0 0 0 1007 421 0 0 JHARKHAN D LATEHAR 3259 3178 0 0 9356 9122 12734 12416 91 89 JHARKHAN D PALAMU 2703 2891 54 59 2806 1493 8022 7220 212 266 BALANGI ODISHA R 4920 4822 2610 2545 4005 5018 2589 3244 2940 3351 NUAPAD 1190 ODISHA A 11464 0 7726 7723 8865 10470 10757 12848 3210 1676 RAYAGA 2991 5894 12930 ODISHA DA 1313 1 16284 8 15542 87814 54709 9 27666 99203 SIVAGAN 3240 5287 TAMIL NADU GA 10026 4 36214 2 54216 66235 79263 52945 51210 24888 Phosphorite (Tonne) MADHYA PR CHHATA 9200 935525384 26325 1774322753 28522 ADESH RPUR 97880 7 99530 8 5 0 97864 9 8 6 MADHYA PR 178315156 1764713910 1502413760 15918 ADESH JHABUA 0 0 14200 5 5 2 0 1 9 9 MADHYA PR ADESH SAGAR 0 0 0 0 39575 43533 0 0 0 0 13579 460212812 653615334 1187113208 1110814407 11808 RAJASTHAN UDAIPUR 49 518 29 677 65 363 19 422 66 229 Tin Concentrate (Kg) CHHATTISG DANTEW 1041 3247 ARH ADA 16865 3 26251 1 45448 51818 22307 17280 9215 10278 CHHATTISG ARH SUKMA 50 148 28 61 47 116 Source: MCDR Returns (P): Data is Provisional (Value in Rs'000)