Question

What are the important mineral resources available in India?

Answer 1

Hint:1. Natural resources are classified as mineral resources in the form of minerals.
2. Minerals are naturally occurring, inorganic solid, crystalline substances containing elements of a particular composition.

Complete answer:
Important mineral resources available in India are:
Bauxite Ore (Aluminum), chromites, copper, gold, iron ore, lead-zinc, manganese, tar, tungsten, diamond, dolomite, fluorspar, gypsum, graphite, granite, mica, magnetite, and other minerals are major minerals discovered in the country along with their estimated reserves.
India had a coal content of 315.14 billion metric tons (347.38 billion short tons) (4th largest reserves in the world).
As of April 1978, India had approximately 100 million metric tonnes of proven reserves of oil, or 1 billion barrels as projected by the EIA for 2020, the second largest amount behind China in the Asia-Pacific region.
As of April 2010, India had 1,437 billion cubic meters (50.7 to 1012 cu ft) of reported reserves of natural gas. The Reserve Bank of India holds about 626 tonnes of gold.

Note:India has been the source of almost all of the world's known diamonds since ancient times, and before the discovery of diamonds in Brazil in 1726, India was the only place where diamonds were mined.
About 626 tonnes of gold is owned by the Reserve Bank of India.
India's main mineral resources include Coal (4th largest reserve in the world),
Iron Ore, Manganese Ore (7th largest reserve in the world as in2013),
Mica, Bauxite (5th largest reserve in the world as in2013), Chromite, Natural Gas, Diamonds, Limestone and Thorium etc.