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Shine india monthly magazine
Shine india monthly magazine published this article page no 18 the other minerals extracted for local consumption are limestone dolomite and phosphate. mica mica is mainly used in the electrical and electronic industries. it can be split into very thin sheets which are tough and flexible. mica in india is produced in jharkhand andhra pradesh telanganga and rajasthan followed by tamil nadu west bengal and madhya pradesh. in jharkhand high quality mica is obtained in a belt extending over a distance of about 150 km in length and about 22 km in width in lower hazaribagh plateau. in andhra pradesh...
Shine india monthly magazine
Shine india monthly magazine published this article page no 19 mineral fuels are essential for generation of power required by agriculture industry transport and other sectors of the economy. mineral fuels like coal petroleum and natural gas known as fossil fuels nuclear energy minerals are the conventional sources of energy. these conventional sources are exhaustible resources. coal coal is a one of the important minerals which is mainly used in the generation of thermal power and smelting of iron ore. coal occurs in rock sequences mainly of two geological ages namely gondwana and tertiary de...
Shine india monthly magazine
Shine india monthly magazine published this article page no 20 they lie in jharkhand-bengal coal belt and the important coal fields in this region are raniganj jharia bokaro giridih karanpura. jharia is the largest coal field followed by raniganj. the other river valleys associated with coal are godavari mahanadi and sone. the most important coal mining centres are singrauli in madhya pradesh part of singrauli coal field lies in uttar pradesh korba in chhattisgarh talcher and rampur in odisha chanda–wardha kamptee and bander in maharashtra and singareni in telangana and pandur in andhra ...
Junior science refresher
Buy and subsribe here Junior science refresher published this article page no 21 singareni collieries the countrys premier coal production company still uses canaries to detect the presence of deadly carbon monoxide in underground mines. miners collapse and often die even if small quantities of the highly poisonous co are present in the air. though miners speak lovingly of the canaries the underground experience is not at all pleasant for the birds. when lowered into mines with co presence...
Junior science refresher
Buy and subsribe here Junior science refresher published this article page no 12 india accounts for about 2.45 per cent of worlds surface area 4 per cent of the worlds water resources and about 16 per cent of worlds population. the total water available from precipitation in the country in a year is about 4000 cubic km. the availability from surface water and replenishable groundwater is 1869 cubic km. out of this only 60 per cent can be put to beneficial uses. thus the total utilisable water resource in the country is only 1122 cubic km Read More....