Lithium Reserves In India: India’s Ministry of Mines has told that large lithium deposits have been discovered in Jammu and Kashmir. The Geological Survey of India (GSI) has for the first time discovered lithium reserves of 5.9 million tonnes in the Salal-Haimana area of тАЛтАЛJammu and Kashmir’s Reasi district, 650 km north of Delhi.
The Ministry of Mines informed that 51 mineral blocks including Lithium and Gold have been handed over to the State Governments. Out of these 51 mineral blocks, 5 blocks are related to gold. Other blocks spread over 11 states of Jammu Kashmir (Union Territory), Andhra Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Gujarat, Jharkhand, Karnataka are related to commodities like potash, molybdenum, base metals etc. GSI had prepared these blocks on the basis of works done since the field season 2018-19.
Apart from these, 17 reports of coal and lignite with a total resource of 7897 million tonnes were also submitted to the Ministry of Coal. Geological Survey of India has established 115 projects on strategic and important minerals and 16 projects on fertilizer minerals.
why lithium is important
Lithium is a metal that is used to make batteries for electric vehicles. The Modi government is focusing on electric vehicles in both public and private transport sectors in the country. In particular, there is a plan to make major cities like Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Chennai and Bengaluru more and more dependent on electric vehicles. For this, it is very important to have lithium reserves.
Currently, China and Australia are the major suppliers of lithium worldwide. Due to their huge lithium reserves, they also do whatever they want. Now after the discovery of lithium reserves in India too, it is certain that their kingdom will be affected.
GSI was established in 1851
The Geological Survey of India (GSI) was established in 1851 to locate coal deposits for the railways. Since then GSI has not only grown into a repository of geoscientific information required in various fields in the country, but has also acquired the status of a geoscientific organization of international repute.
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