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List of Critical and Strategic minerals 2024
August 24 , 2024
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- The Central Government has notified a list of 24 minerals including Tantalum, in Part D of the First Schedule of the MMDR Act, 1957 as Critical and Strategic minerals.
- Tantalum is a rare metal with the symbol Ta and atomic number 73.
- The Geological Survey of India has taken up 6 projects on exploration for Tantalum and associated minerals in different parts of the country.
- Raw tantalum rarely occurs in nature.
- It is typically found in the ore columbite-tantalite (usually referred to as coltan).
- It has an extremely high melting point, exceeded only by tungsten and rhenium.
- Democratic Republic of the Congo, Rwanda, Brazil, and Nigeria are the Major Producers of Ta.
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