Mineral belts of India

North-Eastern Peninsular belt:

1. It is the richest member built of India.
2. Comprises of Chota Nagpur Plateau and Orissa plateau in Jharkhand,. West Bengal and Orissa.
3. The Chota Nagpur Plateau is known as the mineral heart land of India, also Ruhr of India.
4. It contains large quantities of coal, iron, manganese, mica, bauxite, Copper, Chromites, and Kyanite.

Central belt:

1. It is the second largest mineral built of India.
2. Comprises of Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh and Maharashtra.
3. It has largest deposits of Manganese, bauxite, limestones, Marbles, coal gems (panna), Mica, iron ore, graphite,etc.

Southern belt:

1. It comprises mostly of Karnataka plateau and contiguous Tamilnadu upland.
2. It lacks coal deposits except lignite at Neyveli (Tamil Nadu)
3. it is more or less similar to North southern Peninsular belt as for as deposits of ferrous minerals and bauxite is concerned.

South-Western belt :

1. Southern Karnataka and Goa are included.
2. it has deposits of iron-ore, garnet and clay.

 North-West belt :

1. Extends along the Aravalis  in Rajasthan and in adjoining parts of Gujarat.
2. Important minerals- Copper,lead, Zinc, uranium, mica, bauxite, gypsum, Manganes, salt.

The Indian Ocean :

1. Along with availability of petroleum and natural gas in the off shore areas the sea bed contains manganese nodules, phosphorite nodules and Barium sulphate concentration.
2. The best quality nodules are found in water depth of more than 400 metres Hospet nodules are mainly found near Andaman Islands