India, Feb. 3 -- The Government of India has issued a release:
In a written reply in the Rajya Sabha today, the Minister of Coal and Mines, Shri G. Kishan Reddy, stated that Atomic Minerals Directorate for Exploration and Research (AMD), a constituent unit of DAE, is carrying out exploration and augmentation of minerals of rare earth group elements along the coastal and inland placer sands as well as in hard rock terrains in several potential geological domains of the country.
As on 28.01.2026, the rare earth minerals resources estimated by AMD include:
(i) 136 deposits of Beach Sand Minerals containing 13.15 million tonnes (Mt) of monazite (a mineral of Thorium and Rare Earths) occurring in the coastal beach, teri / red sands and inland...