Minerals & Mining
Expanding a vibrant non-fuel mining sector is necessary for providing essential raw materials for manufacturing industries and employment opportunities across India’s economy while adding fiscal gains for state governments. This work programme seeks to impact government policies that enable sustainable growth of an internationally competitive and financially viable non-fuel mining sector in alignment with the welfare of affected communities, environmental protection, and climate change mitigation objectives.
The India Copper Report: Navigating Through the Demand and Supply Gap...
This report provides a comprehensive examination of the copper sector in India, highlighting its current status, strategic importance, and emerging...
Economic Security in the Indo-Pacific: India-Japan Cooperation on Critical...
This article by Anindita Sinh explores the evolution of the India-Japan economic relationship, Japan’s domestic and international policies in the...
India and Southern Africa: Strengthening Partnerships for Critical...
As New Delhi looks to diversify its Critical Minerals partnerships, the multidimensional relationship between India and the SADC must be honed further...
India, Africa and Critical Minerals: Towards a Green Energy Partnership...
Based on new evidence, this paper offers policy recommendations for an Indian critical minerals strategy in Africa. It aims to explain why, where, and...
Union Budget 2025-26: Long Road Ahead for India’s Critical Minerals...
The Union Budget 2025-26 has emphasised reforms in the mining sector. To ensure requisite availabilities of critical minerals, customs duty rates on...
Critical Mineral Supply Chains: Challenges for India...
This study analyses the causes of bottlenecks in the global supply chains that affect mineral access to all countries. It also highlights methods...
Strengthening India-US Cooperation on Critical Minerals...
The two nations can build a resilient and diversified supply chain for critical minerals. India’s ambition to become a global manufacturing hub is...
Positioning Critical Minerals in the India-EU Partnership...
Anindita Sinh discusses the potential for India and the EU to cooperate towards resilient supply chains for critical minerals given their shared...
Beyond Self-reliance: India’s International Partnerships on Critical...
This blog series maps and surveys the growing number of India’s international partnerships in the critical minerals space, providing readers with a...
Decoding Copper Cathode – Navigating Through the Indian Copper...
To secure the copper supply chain, strategic investments, adherence to environmental standards, and robust public-private partnerships are crucial. ...
Projecting Critical Minerals Need for India’s Energy Transition: How...
This paper estimates the mineral requirements to manufacture the clean energy technologies needed for India to meet its climate action commitments....
Critical Mineral Supply Chains: Trilateral Perspectives from Japan, India...
The Indo-Pacific countries should use their domestic capacities optimally and participate in global supply chains with a diverse range of partner...
Quad-ASEAN Technology Cooperation for Critical Minerals Supply Chains...
As a part of CSEP's ongoing work on securing critical minerals for India’s green technology and net-zero transition, this analysis incorporates...
Policy Analysis: Mine Closure in India...
In India, existing mine closure legislation lacks provisions to adequately address the socio-economic and cultural aspects, highlighting the need for...
CSEP Sustainable Mining Attractiveness Index (SMAI)...
The paper highlights the economic importance of mining activities and the need to be environmentally responsible and safeguard the welfare and...
Projecting Critical Mineral Needs for India’s Renewable Electricity...
For critical minerals, especially those with no known domestic resources, mineral-wise strategies are required to ensure their robust access for...
Incentivising Non-Fuel Mineral Exploration in India...
Rajesh Chadha, Ganesh Sivamani and Karthik Bansal provide an overview of India’s historical, current, and proposed exploration policies, good...
Assessing the Criticality of Minerals for India 2023...
An extension of an earlier study with a focus on 43 select critical minerals that emphasizes the need for a national strategy to ensure resilient...
Post-Lease Clearances: Streamlining the Time-Cost...
Karthik Bansal and Ishita Kapoor's paper discusses three case studies on Jharkhand, Odisha and Karnataka to highlight procedural problems with...
Critical Minerals for India: Assessing their Criticality and Projecting...
Rajesh Chadha and Ganesh Sivamani's study results point to policy recommendations for ensuring uninterrupted supplies of critical minerals through...
Critical Minerals for India: Assessing their Criticality and Projecting...
The paper projects India’s mineral needs for green technologies, including renewable electricity generation and electric vehicle manufacturing, in...
Mineral Royalty Rates: A Policy Review...
This Discussion Note explores India’s mineral royalty rates, which are among the highest in the world, thus impacting the competitiveness of the...
Mining Matters Episode 2: Mining for Growth and Development – A...
Ganesh Sivamani discusses the Indian mining sector, and how it can become a catalyst for the country’s growth and development with Chanakya...
Non-fuel Minerals and Metals: India’s Trade and FDI Scenario...
What is the import-export trade dynamics of mineable minerals in India, especially after the Atma-Nirbhar Bharat Abhiyan? Read the new discussion note...
New Mining Techniques: Exploring the Deep Sea...
Ishita Kapoor's blog explores the possibility of deep sea bed mining while also safeguarding the fragile ecosystem of ocean beds....
Mining Matters Episode 1: Exploration – A Geologist’s Perspective...
In the first episode of Mining Matters, “Exploration – A Geologist’s Perspective”, Ishita Kapoor discusses various issues relating to...
A Hybrid Energy Input-Output Table for India...
Rajesh Chadha and Ganesh Sivamani's paper details the construction of India’s hybrid Energy Input-Output Table 2015-16, which has information on the...
District Mineral Foundation Funds: Evaluating the Performance...
Rajesh Chadha and Ishita Kapoor analyse the collection, allocation, and expenditure patterns in India’s top 12 mining states through a DMF...
Prospective Mining Conflicts: Adopt Sustainable Development...
While the expansion of mining activities may benefit the affected local communities, it may harm them if their benefits do not offset the negative...
Energy Flows through Production and Consumption Structure of India’s...
Results from this note may be used for partial and general equilibrium models (PE and GE) to analyse
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Assessing the Criticality of Non-fuel Minerals in India...
India needs to undertake serious research and build a policy framework of being self-reliant in clean energy and high-tech equipment by acting fast on...
Non-fuel Mineral Auctions: How Fair is the Game, and For Whom?...
The 2015 MMDR amendment introduced the auctions regime, ending first come, first serve allocations, but the system needs a review...
CSEP sustainable mining attractiveness index: District-level study of...
This paper introduces the concept of a Sustainable Mining Attractiveness Index to evaluate the mining sustainability in the districts of the Indian...
Input-output transactions table: Odisha 2015-16...
The Odisha Input-Output Transactions Table for 2015-16 depicts intersectoral intermediate transactions across 76 sectors of the state’s economy, the...
Reforms in the mining sector: Comments and recommendations...
The Ministry of Mines issued a notice on proposed reforms in the mining sector under nine different categories. This blog piece gives recommendations...
Minerals royalty rates in India: Comparison with other countries...
The mining royalty rates in India are among the highest in the world. This discussion note takes a view of the various systems of mineral royalty and...
India needs to strengthen, not dilute, environmental assessments...
The Indian government’s proposed EIA draft has been criticised for diluting the environment assessment process. What are good international...
Mining and Jurisprudence: Observations for India’s mining sector to...
Over the past decade, India's mining sector, including the non-fuel mineral sector, has been marred by countless controversies....
Skewed critical minerals global supply chains post COVID-19...
Introduction While there is rich extant literature on India’s dependence on and its long-term need for natural gas and coal, there is not a...
An analysis of non-fuel mineral blocks auctions in India...
The Mines and Minerals (Development and Regulation) Act of 1957 regulates the mining sector in India, including specifying the rules for the...
Fractured Global Value Chains post COVID-19: Can India gain its missed...
I. Economic Growth and Trade Covid-19 has hit the world hard. As on May 11, 2020, there have been a total of 4,215,274 positive cases across the world...
District Mineral Foundation funds can help COVID-19 hit mining areas...
The Prime Minister of India held a meeting on April 30, 2020 to consider reforms in the mines and coal sector to jump-start the Indian economy in the...
Enhancing mineral exploration in India...
These steps can make India's mineral asset allocation process more transparent and create a competitive exploration environment. ...
Regulatory reform for non-fuel minerals: Improving the post-leasing...
In March 2020, the Government of India passed the Mineral Laws Amendment Bill 2020, which amends the Mines and Minerals (Development and Regulation)...
Utilising District Mineral Foundation funds to fight the COVID-19 crisis...
In wake the of the growing COVID-19 crisis and the strain on healthcare resources, India’s finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman on March 26...
Input-output transactions table: India 2015-16...
The India Input-Output Transactions Table for 2015-16 depicts intersectoral intermediate transactions across 131 sectors of the economy as well as the...
Non-fuel minerals and mining in India: Background and the way forward...
India's mining sector can be a catalyst for the growth and development of the manufacturing sector and the economy as a whole....
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