Mining in Godhra

Panchmahal is famous for some of the main products like mineral products which include sandstone and granite as well as other sorts of building stone; while mining of manganese is done on large scale basis, which was started by European firm.

There are many minerals that are present in the district of Panchmahal, but out of the many, few like quartz, marble and granite are found to be much popular than others. Quartz is considered as one of the most important mineral, since it is used by the world-wide industries of glass consumers.

The district not only produces different kinds of minerals, but also exports its high range quality of minerals to other districts; and it has been found that, Godhra of Gujarat has been producing mines and minerals, rather than coal or natural gas, petroleum, etc. They are in the process of expanding with many other types and exchange of the business with other districts.

Major Panchmahal minerals contain mineral reserves such as – Panchmahal quartz, marble and granite which is 1,374,530. Quartz minerals are found in 4 million metric tonnes – i.e, 75% of whichever is found in Panchmahal.

Panchmahal contributes 97% of quartz produced in Gujarat, is estimated approximately 1, 29, 855 metric tonnes. Quartz is classified as a major mineral, because of its application across a wide variety of industries, such as glass industry being the dominant consumer.

The mineral products are manufactured with sandstone, granite and other kinds of stone used for construction. Also, mining was done for extracting manganese on a large scale was established by a European firm.

Mineral Production in Godhra

There are many mining companies in Godhra who involve in producing Quartz Powder, Quartz Sand, Quartz Powder, Quartz Sand, Manganese Dioxide, Garnet Sand, River & Silex Sand, Coarse Silex, Fine Silex, Silica Sand and lot more. Unlike other states of India, only cities in Gujarat state such as – Godhra, Surat, Ahmedabad, etc. produces minerals like – the Agate, the Chalk as well as Perlite.

These companies which uses different operated plants to form several grade quartz powder such as crushed quartz powder, micronised quartz powder, and so on. All the mining companies usually have the technical experts to avoid any misuse during processing. These plants will have full capacity to work as per the industrial requirement.

Such type of mining companies, concentrate on developing the mining or mineral production, which is done only in the state of Gujarat, and also to export the value of these minerals along with creating a stable market throughout the globe.

Types of Mining Industries

There are many mineral oriented industries which include – Limestone based cement with soda-ash industry, the Lignite based power plants as well as the Bauxite-based Alumina plant, the Marble and Granite based cutting, the polishing plants,along with the Clay based ceramic units, the Silica sand based glass units.

These are some of the types of mining industries in Godhra, which undertake 'mine safety' measures for good kind of mineral exploitation.