The declaration of National Mineral Policy 2008, amendments to MMDR Act 2015, and recent reforms in mining legislation viz. MEMC Rules 2015, National Mineral Exploration Policy 2016, Mineral Auction Rules 2015, NMET Rules 2015, and Mineral Concession Rules 2016 etc. were primarily aimed at attracting private investment and the latest technology in the mineral sector, assurance of uniform lease period, dealing with low exploration expenditure and eliminating procedural delays.

Indicator minerals are mineral species that, when appearing as transported grains in clastic sediments, indicate the presence in bedrock of a specific type of mineralization, hydrothermal alteration or lithology. Their physical and chemical characteristics, including a relatively high density, facilitate their preservation and identification and allow them to be readily recovered at the parts per billion level from sample media such as till, stream sediments or soil producing large exploration targets.

When using infrared spectroscopy for the study of minerals, researchers often face a number of specific difficulties. This may be due to various factors, including lack of available substance, small sizes of monomineral grains and aggregates, the presence of structural impurities and mechanical inclusions, instability of some minerals, scattering effects, atmospheric disturbance, background noice, anomalous dispersion, interference, etc. One can distinguish three kinds of sources of errors and artifacts in IR spectroscopy of minerals, which are connected with experimental procedures, data proceeding and data interpretation <...>

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