10 BIGGEST MINING COMPANIES IN INDIA

Incorporated under the administrative control of the Ministry of Mines , Hindustan Copper Ltd is the nation ’ s only vertically integrated copper producing company . Hindustan manufactures copper from the stage of mining to beneficiation , smelting , refining and casting of refined copper metal it downstream . The bulk of the operations are spread across India : Khetri Copper Complex ( KCC ) at Khetrinagar , Rajasthan , with the Indian Copper Complex ( ICC ) at Ghatsila , Jharkhand , Malanjkhand Copper , Project ( MCP ) at Malanjkhand , Madhya Pradesh , and Taloja Copper Project ( TCP ) at Taloja , Maharashtra .

Incorporated in 1963 to develop major mineral resources in India , with a silica sand quarrying plant for crushing and screening of silica sand required the glass industry . Fast forward nine years and the company was granted a Lignite Mining Lease at Panandhro , Dist . Kutch . It started its lignite mining operation which gave an opportunity for GMDC to develop its first lignite mine to cater the fuel demand of the industries in the state .

As recent as 2015 , the company announced a lignite mine of 1 mMT per annum capacity at Umarsar , Dist . Kutch . With six operating lignite mines in the state , the GMDC became the largest merchant seller of lignite in the country . GMDC has also set up a 1.5 million TPA Pyrite Removal Plant at Bhavnagar Lignite Project on Built on Operate ( BOO ) basis for removal of Pyrite nodules .

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