Rapid industrialization during the Five-Year Plan periods has brought about a considerable boost in the mineral development programmes in India. During the last decade, significantly enough, its contribution to the national economy has trebled: while in the First Plan period it was about Rs. 470 crores, it rose to nearly Rs. 1,500 crores by the end of the Third Plan.

Introduction to Geodynamics of the Indian Plate: Evolutionary Perspectives Sampat K. Tandon and Neal Gupta
Evolving Early Earth: Insights from Peninsular India M. Jayananda, S. Dey, and K. R. Aadhiseshan
Tracking India Within Precambrian Supercontinent Cycles Sarbani Patranabis-Deb, Dilip Saha, and M. Santosh
Proterozoic Sedimentary Basins of India Partha Pratim Chakraborty, S. K. Tandon, Sagnik Basu Roy, Subhojit Saha, and Pritam P. Paul
Oxygenation of Early Atmosphere and Potential Stratigraphic Records from India Joydip Mukhopadhyay

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.

The natural resources on the earth seem to be randomly distributed but their variations over space and time are not all random. They exhibit a spatial correlation. This spatial correlation can be captured by geostatistics. Geostatistics deals with the analysis and modelling of geo-referenced data. The point observations are analyzed and interpolated to create spatial maps. For geostatistical interpolation, first the spatial correlation structures of the parameter of interest are quantified and then spatial interpolation is done using the quantified spatial correlation and optimal predictions at unobserved locations to create a map.

Minerals are crucial for the development of modern economy. Since mineral resources are exhaustible, increase in their consumption causes its scarcity and the commodity gradually becomes exhausted, so that it is no further available for the mankind. With the increasing demand, the mineral resources would deplete much faster than envisaged earlier. There has been a rising concern about the environmental degradation due to increased exploitation of minerals. Nevertheless, minerals are important drivers of a nation’s economy. Therefore, using the natural resources is imminent, albeit sustainably. Continuous mining of minerals, discovery of new mineral deposits, and import-export-stockpiling of minerals greatly influences the economics of mineral commodities. These data must be perpetually updated in order to provide future perspective and framing of policies at the government level. Therefore, the impulse to write this book stemmed from a need for an updated, compiled and properly interpreted database of the Indian mineral sector.  <...>

A phenomenal growth has been achieved in our understanding of the Geology of India since India's Independence through the efforts of the Geological Survey of India and several other State Surveys, exploration agencies, research organizations, universities, institutes and scientific societies. Many of our earlier concepts of geology in relation to structure and tectonics, stratigraphy and sedimentation, magmatism and metamorphism, and metallogeny and mineral deposits have undergone drastic changes with larger inflow of data, synchronising with the evolving global concepts of earth processes.

Geology came to occupy the pride of place in the country following Independence and rapid industrialization based on Five Year Plans of the Nehru era. Geological Survey of India, the premier earth science organization in the country, was considerably expanded and decentralized to the various States of India. National Research Institutes like the NGRI, PRL, CESS, WIHG, BSIP etc. were encouraged to develop rapidly, and the Universities urged to become centers of excellence.

В монографии коллектива советских и индийских исследователей последовательно рассмотрены история освоения уникального золоторудного поля, его геологическая позиция, строение, условия залегания руд. Детально описана минералогия золоторудного поля, охарактеризованы околорудные ореолы рассеяния рудных элементов. Изучена зональность развития оруденения в 3,2 км вертикальном интервале глубин.

The Geological Survey of India started its field operations in Orissa in 1855-56 F.S. when W.T. Blanford, H.F. Blanford and W. Theobald surveyed the Talcher coal fields The first memoir of GSI (Mem. Vol. No. 1, 1859, pp. 33.38) contains an account of their work. The geological studies led to the unravelling of Gondwana glaciation and its coal bearing rock sequence above.