Hyderabad, Dec. 2 -- State-owned Singareni Collieries Company Limited (SCCL) today entered into a significant agreement with the premier research institution, CSIR-Institute of Minerals & Materials Technology (CSIR-IMMT), to jointly explore and extract rare earth elements and other critical minerals from coal mining waste generated across Singareni operations.
The agreement was signed by Dr. Kali Sanjay, Chief Scientist and Head of Hydro & Electrometallurgy Division, CSIR-IMMT, and SCCL, Director (P&P) K. Venkateshwarlu in the presence of SCCL CMD N. Balram and CSIR-IMMT Director Dr. Ramanuj Narayan.
As part of this partnership, critical minerals embedded in shale, clay, sandstone, granite rocks, coal fly ash, and bottom ash in Singareni ...