{"id":224474,"date":"2023-02-01T19:23:23","date_gmt":"2023-02-01T13:53:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=224474"},"modified":"2023-02-25T10:33:18","modified_gmt":"2023-02-25T05:03:18","slug":"survey-calls-for-new-mineral-policy-extending-coal-usage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/survey-calls-for-new-mineral-policy-extending-coal-usage\/","title":{"rendered":"Survey calls for new mineral policy, extending coal usage"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The post is based on the article <\/span><b>\u201c<\/b><b>Survey calls for new mineral policy, extending coal usage<\/b><b>\u201d <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">published in<\/span><b> Livemint <\/b>on <b>1st February 2023.<\/b><\/p>\n<h2><b>What is the News?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to the Economic Survey 2023, India <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">needs a carefully crafted multi-dimensional mineral policy to address the issues posed by an uneven distribution of rare earth elements.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>What is the importance of <\/b><b>Rare earth elements(REEs) and critical minerals?<\/b><\/h2>\n<figure id=\"attachment_224498\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-224498\" style=\"width: 476px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-224498 \" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/97497886.jpg?resize=476%2C258&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Rare earth elements\" width=\"476\" height=\"258\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/97497886.jpg?w=600&amp;ssl=1 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/97497886.jpg?resize=300%2C163&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 476px) 100vw, 476px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-224498\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: TOI<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Rare earth elements(REEs) and critical minerals are essential for generating renewable energy. However, these are produced in a few countries and processed in even fewer countries.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Many experts also warn of the availability of rare earth elements and critical minerals to be the next geopolitical battleground as crude oil has been over the last fifty years.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>What are the suggestions given by the survey?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There is a need to create strategic mineral reserves along the lines of the existing strategic petroleum reserves to ensure a continuous supply of minerals.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The government should carefully <strong>make a multidimensional mineral policy<\/strong> that would reduce India&#8217;s dependence on imports of rare earth elements(REEs) and critical minerals.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Government should consider <strong>investing in internal research<\/strong> including technological innovation for mineral exploration and processing and the development of recycling, reusing, and repurposing (R3) technologies.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">India should also<strong> look to foreign partnerships<\/strong> such as the one established with Australia to develop India\u2019s latent potential through critical minerals exploration and mining.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The post is based on the article \u201cSurvey calls for new mineral policy, extending coal usage\u201d published in Livemint on 1st February 2023. What is the News? According to the Economic Survey 2023, India needs a carefully crafted multi-dimensional mineral policy to address the issues posed by an uneven distribution of rare earth elements.&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/survey-calls-for-new-mineral-policy-extending-coal-usage\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Survey calls for new mineral policy, extending coal usage<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,3127,9],"tags":[10501],"class_list":["post-224474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-economy","category-public","tag-live-mint","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704854991},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224474\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}