{"id":17240,"date":"2021-02-04T03:40:03","date_gmt":"2021-02-03T22:10:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/udaen.info\/?p=17240"},"modified":"2021-02-04T03:40:03","modified_gmt":"2021-02-03T22:10:03","slug":"preliminary-survey-shows-deposits-of-lithium-in-mandya-district-of-karnataka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/udaen.info\/?p=17240","title":{"rendered":"Preliminary survey shows deposits of Lithium in Mandya district of Karnataka"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"MinistryNameSubhead text-center\">Department of Atomic Energy<\/div>\n<div class=\"text-center\">\n<h2>Preliminary survey shows deposits of Lithium in Mandya district of Karnataka<br \/>\n<span id=\"ltrSubtitle\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"ReleaseDateSubHeaddateTime text-center pt20\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"pt20\"><\/div>\n<p>The Government today said that preliminary surveys on surface and limited subsurface by Atomic Minerals Directorate for Exploration and Research (AMD), a constituent unit of Department of Atomic Energy have shown presence of Lithium resources of 1,600 tonnes (inferred category) in the pegmatites of Marlagalla \u2013 Allapatna area, Mandya district, Karnataka.<\/p>\n<p>Lithium is a key element for new technologies and finds its use in ceramics, glass, telecommunication and aerospace industries.\u00a0 The well-known uses of Lithium are in Lithium ion batteries, lubricating grease, high energy additive to rocket propellants, optical modulators for mobile phones and as convertor to tritium used as a raw material for thermonuclear reactions i.e. fusion.\u00a0 The thermonuclear application makes Lithium as \u201cPrescribed substance\u201d under the Atomic Energy Act, 1962 which permits AMD for exploration of Lithium in various geological domains of the country.\u00a0 Due to the continuously increasing demand of Lithium ion batteries, the requirement of Lithium has increased over last few years.<\/p>\n<p>The significance and quantity of lithium resources in Marlagalla-Allapatna area, Mandya district, Karnataka may be established only after the completion of exploration in the entire area.\u00a0 Subsequently, plan for commercial exploitation of the lithium deposits can commence after the technical, social and economic feasibility studies in the area.<\/p>\n<p>This information was given by the Union Minister of State (Independent Charge), Development of North Eastern Region (DoNER), MoS PMO, Personnel, Public Grievances, Pensions, Atomic Energy and Space, DrJitendra Singh in a written reply in the Lok Sabha today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Department of Atomic Energy Preliminary survey shows deposits of Lithium in Mandya district of Karnataka The Government today said that preliminary surveys on surface and limited subsurface by Atomic Minerals Directorate for Exploration and Research (AMD), a constituent unit of Department of Atomic Energy have shown presence of Lithium resources of 1,600 tonnes (inferred category) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/udaen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17240"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/udaen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/udaen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/udaen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/udaen.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17240"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/udaen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17240\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17241,"href":"https:\/\/udaen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17240\/revisions\/17241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/udaen.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/udaen.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/udaen.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}