locate the following minerals in telangana map mineral iron ore district mahabubabad,peddapalli,manchriyal
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Answer:
Minerals are of great economic value and have occupied a characteristic place amongst all the economic resources.
Minerals and mineral industries have significant macro links with the economy of a country. Mining activity generates
employment opportunities; is obviously an important source of tax revenue and contributes to national income thereby
leading to economic growth. In view of the significance minerals-hold in Telangana, the paper makes an attempt to list
out all the mineral occurrences of the State and the way forward for socio-economic growth.
The newly separated Telangana state from the state of united Andhra Pradesh has a unique geological set up that can
host a variety of mineral deposits of economic value. The state Telangana has an area of 112955 Sq.Km, bounded by N latitudes 15o 46’ and 19 o 47’ and E longitudes 77o 16’ and 81o 43’ . Though several public organizations have
discovered various mineral deposits, still there exists a huge scope for further detailed exploration in search of new
mineral deposits in the state and involvement of private/multinational companies has been started just in the last decade.
There is significant mineral potential that still lay untapped in Telangana for the growth of mining industry. Now that a
separate State has been formed, a systematic regulatory and administrative procedures, infrastructure facilities leading
to sustainable exploration and mining activity needs to be formulated. The challenges like lack of sufficient water
storage systems, infrastructure etc. have limited the overall investment in mining and exploration activities in the state
for the past few decades.
Explanation:
Several organizations have extensively worked to identify mineral occurrences in this part of the country. Amongst all,
work carried out by Geological Survey of India (GSI) is of pioneering importance in discovering a variety of mineral
deposits. The first report published by GSI in 1975 describes all the minor and major mineral occurrences in the
undivided Andhra Pradesh. This edition was modified and released in 2005 by GSI. These publicly available reports
are used to extract information relevant to frame this article. Also reports published by academicians and other public
organizations were gathered from open web sources.