STATE REVIEWS Indian Minerals Yearbook 2013 (Part- I) 52nd Edition STATE REVIEWS (Karnataka) (FINAL RELEASE) GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF MINES INDIAN BUREAU OF MINES Indira Bhavan, Civil Lines, NAGPUR – 440 001 PHONE/FAX NO. (0712) 2565471 PBX : (0712) 2562649, 2560544, 2560648 E-MAIL :
[email protected] Website: www.ibm.gov.in September, 2015 11-1 STATE REVIEWS KARNATAKA Chickmagalur, Chitradurga, Davangere, Uttara Kannada, Shimoga and Tumkur districts; ochre in Bellary and Bidar districts; quartz/silica Mineral Resources sand in Bagalkot, Bengaluru, Belgaum, Karnataka has the distinction of being Bellary, Chickmagalur, Chitradurga, Davangere, the principal gold producing State in the country. Dharwad, Gadag, Gulbarga, Hassan, Haveri, The State is the sole producer of felsite Kolar, Koppal, Mandya, Mysore, Uttara & and leading producer of iron ore, chromite and Dakshina Kannada, Raichur, Shimoga, Tumkur dunite. Karnataka hosts the country's 78% and Udupi districts; Quartzite in Belgaum vanadium ore, 73% iron ore (magnetite), 42% district; and talc/steatite/soapstone in Bellary, tungsten ore, 37% asbestos, 28% limestone, 22% Chickmagalur, Chitradurga, Hassan, Mandya, gold, 20% granite, 17% dunite, and 14% corundum Mysore, Raichur and Tumkur districts. resources. Other minerals that occur in the State The important mineral-occurrences found are: asbestos in Chickmagalur, Hassan, Mandya, in the State are: bauxite in Belgaum, Chickmagalur, Mysore and Shimoga districts; barytes Uttara & Dakshina Kannada and Udupi and pyrite in Chitradurga