Match List - I with List - II and select the correct answer using the codes given below : List - I (Mining Area):

1. Kalahandi

2. Zawar

3. Kolar

4. Mosabani; List - II (Mineral Wealth): i. Gold ii. Copper iii. Bauxite iv. Zinc and Lead

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Correct — C, i.e. 1-iii, 2-iv, 3-i, 4-ii. Kalahandi in Odisha lies in the Eastern Ghats bauxite belt (iii); Zawar, near Udaipur in Rajasthan, is India's classic zinc-and-lead field, noted for a long history of ancient zinc smelting (iv); Kolar in Karnataka is the country's most famous gold field — the Kolar Gold Fields (i); and Mosaboni (the booklet prints 'Mosabani'), in the Singhbhum copper belt of Jharkhand, is a copper-mining centre (ii). Only option C pairs all four correctly.

Why the other options are wrong — (a) Every pair is wrong — it makes Kalahandi a gold field, Zawar a copper mine, Kolar a bauxite area and Mosaboni a zinc-lead source.  (b) It gets Zawar-zinc/lead and Mosaboni-copper right, but wrongly labels Kalahandi as gold and Kolar as bauxite.  (d) Only Kalahandi-bauxite is correct; it swaps Zawar to copper, Kolar to zinc-lead and Mosaboni to gold.

Concept: India's mineral geography maps particular ores to particular localities. Gold is anchored to Kolar and Hutti in Karnataka; copper to the Singhbhum belt of Jharkhand (with Khetri in Rajasthan and Malanjkhand in MP); zinc and lead to Zawar and Rampura-Agucha in Rajasthan; and bauxite to the Eastern Ghats, especially Odisha's Kalahandi-Koraput belt. Match-the-following questions reward memorising these anchor pairs.

State PCS 2019 Q47 — Geography PYQ with Answer

State PCS 2019 Q47 — Geography PYQ with Answer