India lists 30 critical minerals: What are these, why the listing matters, securing the future
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- Опубліковано 25 чер 2024
- The central government this week identified 30 minerals it considers critical for India. These range from the fertilisers, phosphorus and potash, to lithium & cobalt, which form the lynchpins of the world’s bid to adopt EVs and move away from fossil fuels. In episode 1261 of #CutTheClutter, Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta breaks down this development & its importance in the current geopolitical context, in light of China’s scramble for primacy and the formation of the US-led Minerals Security Partnership.
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Dear shekharji, India did have a list of critical minerals even before this latest announcement. The Indian Critical Minerals Strategy 2016 had identified 49 such minerals.
The earlier list was released with different purpose. The current one is released keeping national security.
Research, Risk analysis and mitigation, Action plan - sounds like professional corporate culture rubbing off on bureaucracy!
Proud of the way India is moving forward - thank you Shekharji and The Print team for picking it up 🙏
Congratulations to Print for bringing out this topic. Material is very important for any country and India. Materials can be classified into- 1. Minerals and metals, 2. Energy materials, 3. Rare earth materials and nano materials and 4. Agriculture materials both food and non food.
I will appreciate if Print brings out an issue considering all materials.
With due respect to 'The Print', the formation of NRF is probably the most path breaking decision/reform of recent times. It can transform the way National Science Foundation transformed scientific research in American universities.
Permanent stable funding like that will greatly improve Research Output.
Transform what in India? How much funds do we allocate for scientific research?
@@Thoughtfluxtransform how and what research is undertaken by the pvt and public sector
@@amithabv1060 exactly.
50000 for 5 years ? Is game changer.
India is changing. Chemistry students can continue their careers in chemistry without becoming journalist or Foreign Minister.
Lolz you really think that on chemistry part 😂😂?
Nations % of GDP spending on R&D ( Data April 2022):
South Korea 5%
Japan 3.4%
China 3.1%
India 0.56%
india main bhokho nango ki jansankhya kuch jada he hai unko bhi toh dekhna hai R & D par jada invest nahi kar sakte ...agar 47' main popul. transfer kiya hota toh aaj 20 crore kam log hote ...20 crore matlab UP jitna popul. empty ....
@@urrasscal8380 Bhai aur wo 20 crore hai bhi gande log jo baaki sabse nafrat karte hai. Gandhi ne jo galti ki ti inko partititon ke dauran yaha pe rakh ke usko India ko bhugatna padega.
@@pkmkb007 47' main popul. xchange kyon nahi kiya ???akal kya ghass churney gayi thi tab.
South Korea and Japan don't have to spend too much on active military, also South Korea asks every man for a compulsary 2 year military service, and china is not a democracy ( not taking any credit from China ), so your examples are not worth comparing, but India should surely push this number to atleast 2%
@@urrasscal8380Exactly ussme 2lac crore kharch karti hai BJP govt, taaki koi bhuka na soye atleast
As i am saying for quite sometime, those who will control Metallurgy will inherit the world.
Only those who are allies of Israel and China will inherit the warld
I love how Shekar Sir is old school cool, using paper notes rather than a digital screen❤❤❤
Your closing statement- India is a highly unexplored country said it all .
Why were previous government/ s so incompetent to explore our rare earth minerals ?
Lacking in vision … perhaps .
With such wonderful people like Shibu Soren, Mamta Banarjee, BK Handique (who came up with the policy that 26% of Mining company revenues should be awarded as annuity to project affected people in perpetuity) and most famously Pranabda who handed Ministry of Mines, you can only expect Canada and Australia levels of competence (sarcasm). Pranabda, just like his retro tax also wrote our most regressive mining laws. He helped make illegal mining a permanent feature of our economy. Such wonderful Ministers, most competent.
Why blame the Govts? People were compliant. India started as the world's 6th largest economy in 1947 but was 12th in 1990 and is 5th in 2023. We looted our own in the name of SOCIALISM. Nehru is, at times, unfairly criticized. Our growth mainly CHOKED in the Indira Gandhi era.
@@sankalp6872 lol
@@sankalp6872 I can forgive our ancestors, for they did not know any better. Most of them were illiterate and got taken for a ride. However, I cannot forget today's socialists/communists/left liberals etc. They should know better (probably they do) but yet they yearn for the old days.
Those who support are fools to think it is about socialism. It isn't about socialism, it's about dominating people's lives and rebuilding the darbari culture.
@@sankalp6872so by that standard the acheivements of the modi govt is to be credited to the people too?
Demonetisation as a failed policy is to be blamed on the people too? Or the JAM trinity? Or UPI?
The fundamental aspect of a representative democracy is that the legislature frames the laws. As long as the law does not significantly affect a large section of the population, no one will care seriously about the law one way or the other - and by no one i mean the general public and not political parties whose entire livelihood is based on having a political opinion and a political nareative...
We have allocated USD 5 Billion for 5 years for National Research foundation that's USD 1 Billion/year. Given our PPP that's close to $8-9 Billion/year, that's 1/5th US Research budget (roughly adjusted to PPP). Wish it was higher but nonetheless, this is a good amount of money and more importantly, it's stable funding for Research and isn't subject to annual swings. More sustainable than whatever we have at the moment. Now I wish with iCET, Govt also improves ease of importing material and instruments and reduces the paperwork.
Thanks you SG for digging this for us.
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Where is the link to the presentation mentioned in the video?
Refreshing segment 👍
Did not find the link to the presentation
Very important topic .... Thanks for choosing it with judicious and visionary pragmatism ❤
This is awesome. We should be doing such gap and risk assessment in all fields.
Wheres the link of this report?
Once again a informative / relevant topic picked by you Shekhar and well presented .
It would be useful to know in terms of criticality / quantity which minerals are important for india and the early exploration success of minerals as an export opportunity .
For eg both phosphate and potash have been imported for years and both quantity / quality from Jordan / Morocco cannot be matched . Same way the list should be granularly addressed to assess opportunity for sourcing efficiently domestically / globally .
Look forward to the next episode on this . 👍
With the help of external forces we managed to shutdown the largest copper smelting plant in India. NGOs will instigate locals to agitate against exploration and mining. Abundant external support is available. Look at the fate of the India-based Neutrino Observatory (INO). Initially it was planned at Singara in Nilgiris. It was moved to Theni because of protesting NGOs. Here also the local people are mislead into agitation by NGOs. Work would have already started to put brakes on the government exploration projects.
Very informative thanks SG
In the end, it's always the basics - earth, water and air - and who's got what and how much and how efficiently they can use them, that will matter!
Amazing explaination by shekhar sir 🌟😊
This is an informative CTC. Many thanks for making this episode. We need to know these too, besides politics and acrimony. Do you know? Tantalum and Neobium occur together. They are also substantially similar. These elements are named after two Greek mythology lovers who were inseparable.
SG.. love you.. You really did a boring (Chemistry 😜) but important CTC today.
Kudos to your team.
God bless India. Everyone deserves to live in dignity 🙏
11:44 cobalt is the stabilizer element NMC or NCA cathode based lithium ion battery, not used in LFP cathode LiIon battery.
Very informative. Thanks for this one
This is a pivot event to prepare ourselves for this century, thus addressing the practical measure of our progress and self reliance. Many thanks Shekarji for highlighting this session and the debrief thereof. 🙏
Great thing about Print, the news which is not covered by other is available here
One of the most important information brought out to the attention of public. Thank you, sir.
Good valuable information..
I always believe Cut the Clutter..with respect from Chennai
An excellent factual report. It also shows the excellent caliber of the viewers based on reviewing the comments.
Very informative .
Brilliant work by dynamic Mines & Minerals secy Mr Vivek Bharadwaj and his team. Kudos.
Fantastic episode. Thank you
Sir, Thorium is not listed although India has been a leader in Thorium research due to its potential to be used in production of energy in the future. India it is said has 25% of world's Thorium reserves. Could you give your opinion why it has not been included in the episode? Thank you
Because this is an import list and thorium reactors are not viable at the moment.
Thorium rich sand has been exported illegally from east coast since many many years. Multiple unreported deaths too been occured since so far. Every state and central government officials, polticians all were involved in the payroll. So no one is going to go against it, it's utterly waste if u or me talks
Informative and lucidly presentation
the problem with Indian democracy is that parties spend 95% of energy in saving or winning seats. Direction is not provided to bureaucracy to think about long term vision. Chinaduring Mao's time, had studied such limitations of democracy and is well positioned to do what is best for them. Indians on the other hand are getting foreign support to bring us down.
And still implemented 1 child policy which may break their country in few years, no doubt China is far far ahead but we are different and there is no one rule to fit all🎉
Would have agreed if didnt learned about China's history under mao .The problem in India is corrupt people think about short term profits than long term, thus what you said and same can be said about general public too
@@AbhishekSharma-im6zo agree. What I meant was the Chinese studied the limitations of democracy to interfere with democracies. Some of the funs to disrupt democracies comes from China
@@srisivaraman8063 that i agree
I was also part of the group who contributed in the booklet
The most critical part is having the technology. High tech products require high precision components. High precision components are made from materials, including metal of specifically defined purity. It is easy to get any metal to 99% purity. What if the part requires 99.999% purity? What if it requires an alloy of 81.655% of metal A and 18.345% of metal B; and an extremely even mix?
India has a big reswrvw of light rare earth in the beach minerals of the coastal areas of South.
It not important and let me tell you why. You need a "Market" to sell into. Just remember if their is no "Market" all it is is a bunch of rocks.
Shuu, don't say our politicians will sell it off.
Agree illegally from tn thoothukudi tons and tons of ree exported😢😢😢 there is a scam 10,000 crores this called out 5 years back still th worth is much more
@@ak99-to1gza DMK strongman has been selling it to china since 2005.
In AP they found a reserve of rare earth elements
SG: there is no way to build an EV without Cobalt.
Nexon EV: what is Cobalt?
MG ZS EV: Cobalt what?
BYD Atto3: Even I never heard of Cobalt.
Isn't Cobalt necessary in battery manufacturing?
@@SunilMeena-do7xnthere are many cars from Tesla to tata which do not use Cobalt. Another fact is Cobalt is used as an alloy in engine block and as a catalyst for refining petrol.
There are cars which use Cobalt, but 50% of EVs don't use Cobalt.
Sir, please do a CTC on the water situation in India, so that we know where we are heading
Opening the scope for New Minerals Era ✌️✌️✍️✍️🙏🙏
Can someone direct me to a pdf copy of the report?
Very interesting and important topic
With all the resources available in India, we'll only take full advantage of it if people who are involved are honest, efficient and work for a single goal of developing the country.
Sg, fantastic inorganic chemistry class. These minerals are our future strategic assets and need to be explored further, however the ulterior motive of NGO, religious groups as in sterlite is an example of disruption in the garb of environment and health
Where's the pdf?
Documentation and public dissemination of such information is good. Our policymaking is so f*cked up because everything happens behind closed doors, and "Babus" who can't see two centimetres beyond their own nose call the shots. We need details, reports, and a peek into the "thinking" behind the policy, esp in the current era of MISINFORMATION.
It not that remember that you don't have much of a Private Capital Market. So even though you have some mineral right now there just a bunch of rocks. Remember it is the government that creates the "markets" and private sector then invests in mining these minerals for production.
Too much variation in sound intensity in this vedio. Please address this issue.
All of this is a drawing in water without a sturdy private sector that can offer scale, r&d and more importantly "dhandha". A brief look at our markets will show how dominant SOEs are in the fertilizers production, we have no right to cry ", import reliance"
Good video
Lovely😊
Hey Why are you not making any video on Manipur ?
Still a volatile situation
Aren’t you following ? Focus , focus !
Manipur has been covered already and in detail .
@@ed5928 precisely. If Shekarji says something, it will probably become false the next moment. Things are changing quite rapidly for good or bad.
@@libshastra I have received some news from a local who was a exchange student in MH
Apparently it started off with Kukis demonstrating and some minor rioting after which some organizations used this to strike down Meitei homes and temples. These were drug trafficking orgs and smugglers from Myanmar
From that moment on Meitieis have taken up arms and blame both Centre and state to protect them and have gone on rampage against Kukis
Guy who wrote this is Naga btw but lives in Imphal
The PDF is missing
mines.gov.in/admin/storage/app/uploads/649d4212cceb01688027666.pdf
17:05 -Mine the people. Now that should put clean air and oxygen at the top spot
2:57 Critical Minerals
Agai Sekharji in continuation to my previous question
What will happen if RG becomes PM do you see this things continue to happen?
Shekhar Ji, thanks for picking up this topic. Please reduce your subscription to ₹ 120 per month. You will not make a loss.
Shekhar please upgrade your mic.
no thorium?
Will print have its own Newspaper or its News Channel? I think it should.
There is no money in those unless there is government support or black money.
@@rutvikrs Ohh Shekhar Gupta has enough of both. He is a good journalist but we all know what kind of deals he is involved in. From writing coup stories, to planting news abt political leaders to help certain politician in the same party and . UPA didn't gave him Padma Bhushan for doing good and ethical journalism. It is not his ideological moorings , but his involvement in corruption scandals even military equipment scandals acting as a middle man pocketing crores, which made him quite rich.
Thanks to Science to make our lives more convenient. Science is the force we need to embrace to become a powerful Nation!
Have to disagree with Shekhar. Chemistry is not boring. 😊
It amazes me how the bourgeoisie commentators dismiss Chemistry as the most boring subject! Such generalisations, kill curiosity at the first instance of any intellectual challenge to developing scientific understanding.
You must be fun at parties.
Copper exploration was stopped in Tamil Nadu
12:15 - India has commercially viable fuel cell tech ???? 😲😲😲
Thorium doesn't appear in the list. I remember being taught in school- 50 years ago- that Thorium is a valuable rare earth and India has large deposits of the same. Has Thorium lost its relevance?
This episode reminds me of Tom Lehrer's "The Elements" song.
We are late by 15 years on everything
What does it mean for the indigenous population under whose land one finds those rare earth elements? What will be their fate?
Rare earth minerals are important enough .. but where is Thorium ? Thorium based fast breeder reactor tech could be our ticket to energy independence in case Russia flips and decides to pressure China with EU countries. We have lots of monazite but the reactors are .. missing in action, to put it mildly.
Lithium was found in Rajasthan I think.
The Print investments are subject to intellectual risks
Guptajee, as a proponent of free market ideology I don't see you criticising the government choosing and rejecting important minerals?
It was very bad of u to declare chemistry as a boring subject in a public forum.😢😢
Sulfur...???
Etc...
Hi Shekhar, what is your take on 20 percent tax on money send outside. Isn’t it kind of protectionism? I think People will use hawala to send money
It is an inconvenience. You can get it back when you submit IT return.
And BITCOINS.
@@jishudas7099 Lmao chacha, you have too much confidence in the competence of our IT dept babus & banks. Not to mention the fact that even if they do the refund fairly, govt. will hoard onto my capital interest-free for a year, money I could have used in that period for more spending/investment/savings. 20% TCS makes absolutely 0 sense, especially for salaried people who anyway pay advance tax via TDS, since govt. can easily track these transactions.
I personally feel Modi is the lesser of all evils from the realistic options we have in 2024, but he's been nothing but an utter nightmare for middle & upper middle classes from an economic/fiscal standpoint. Anyway, karte ho bhakti boomer chacha
👌👌👌👌👍
Shekar Gupta is treading so carefully in this politically charged environment, he keeps reading the phone directory.
Unfortunately we don't have substantial reserve for it. That's why india need to invest bi in south America those countries have huge reserves of these minerals
I'm not sure if we explored every part of the country properly
@abhinashkumar3161 It is reported that Bolivia has signed a deal with Russia and China for lithium.
potash extremely large deposites in rajasthan . except exploration nothing done
Unfortunate that Thorium is not in the list of critical elements.
We have enough thorium deposits.
Why silicon is a critical element, Every where sand is available. Especially in Rajasthan we have entire deserts of it.
One question raises again and again whenever a discussion on minerals crops up.
Most of the mineral deposit areas lie in tribal belts.
Other concerns are the effects of mining on ecological and environmental.
So what effect would it have on people and earth, and how does the Govt propose to overcome these problems?.
questions are not the exclusive prerogative of NGOs or the left intellectuals or the decimated socialists fighting their last battle for oxygen.
However , the concerns related to development and national security can not be obviously ignored.
It is learned from media reports that Bolivia has signed deals with Russia and China for lithium.
SG, need a ctc on riots in france, far too many stories are floating, need something credible. Waiting 😊
why opposition parties say "make in india" is not at all possible or fake , is it wrong on Current govt part to move in that direction.
Asteroid mining is a good option for this policy🙄
I am surprised that babus, even thought about it. Not sure how much analysis they have done to come up with this.
How lucrative n viable is recycling these minerals n given that Indian consumption should be high, can private players take a stab at it while the govt is doing heavy lifting task of mining them.
Think China will share some their REEs with India?
Wish, Print had a more knowledgeable person than Mr Gupta to script and give this commentary ..
The consistency of the policies is dependant on the same govt coming back to power. If UPA or any other group were to come,, imagine how many alpha males and females are vying for power...
Today after two months an Indian leader visited Manipur a state burning since two months. No cut the clutter? Hijrey!
Already India is having such classification. Take the book of central exise rate of tax... So nothing new. Tatas were having Special Steel Co Ltd ie fusion of one or more metals called bimetallic. Indian rare earth is in kerela and TN. Boring. It is demand supply and hazard decides the list.
This mean prepping for a waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrr
Myself Mohammed Reaz
Yet another area where India is decades behind. Now scrambling.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣what a compliment on chemistry