With which mineral production is Malaj Khand associated?

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Correct — B, Copper. Malajkhand (Malaj Khand), in the Baihar tehsil of Balaghat district in Madhya Pradesh, holds India's single largest copper-ore deposit and is worked by Hindustan Copper Ltd as the Malanjkhand Copper Project. The chief ore mineral is chalcopyrite (a copper-iron sulphide).

Why the other options are wrong — (a) Lignite (brown coal) is mined mainly at Neyveli (Tamil Nadu) and in Rajasthan and Gujarat — not at Malajkhand.  (c) Madhya Pradesh's diamonds come from the Panna belt, not from Malajkhand.  (d) India's major iron-ore fields lie in Odisha, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand and Karnataka; Malajkhand is a copper deposit, not an iron-ore centre.

Concept: India's copper reserves are concentrated in a few belts: the Khetri belt (Rajasthan, with the largest reserves), the Singhbhum belt (Jharkhand) and the Malanjkhand belt (Balaghat, Madhya Pradesh). Malanjkhand is the country's largest single copper deposit by contained metal and is worked as a large open-pit mine by Hindustan Copper Ltd. Its chief ore mineral is chalcopyrite.

State PCS 2018 Q60 — Madhya Pradesh GK PYQ with Answer

State PCS 2018 Q60 — Madhya Pradesh GK PYQ with Answer