PANAJI: Representatives of the Mineral Exploration Corporation Ltd.
(Mecl) are likely to arrive in Goa next week to make a location visit to find out whether there is vegetation or residence in mining rentals 77.
The state government has provided documents related to this 77 rent for Mecl.
The site inspection will be done before deciding to measure the ore lying in this rent.
After the quantity is determined, the rental will be auctioned.
The previous state government has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Mecl to identify a new iron ore mine in the state.
A senior official said that Mecl would start exploration on sites after verifying documents, and added that they would only visit the rental that the documentation was deleted.
Given the delay in the commencement of mining, the state of the state recently formed a mining company to identify new mineral blocks to restart the industry.
A senior official said that once Mecl finished the block to be auctioned, rent would be transferred to a mining company, and after that, they would be auctioned.
Mining in Goa stopped in March 2018 After the Supreme Court’s decision to cancel the second update of 88 mining rent.
During the Portuguese period, Goa had 806 mining concessions, and in 1987, after concessions were abolished and converted into rent, the number had diminished to 595 rent.
In 1987-88 and in 2000, 438 Leasholder holders had submitted the first update.
Furthermore, 413 Leasholder holders had been implemented in 2006 for the second update.
Of the 595 valid mining rent in Goa, the state government canceled 252 holders who had not registered during the first or second update mining rental in 1987 and 2007.
In October 2013, 119 mining rentals were canceled and 133 others in November.
2013.
Goa has large iron ore deposits (1,456 million tons) and significant events from other major minerals such as bauxite (55 million tons) and manganese ore (34 million tons).