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India possesses a wide spectrum of dimensional stones including granite, marble, sandstone, limestone, slate, and quartzite, found across various parts of the country. The stone industry in India has evolved to focus on the production and manufacturing of blocks, flooring slabs, structural slabs, monuments, tombstones , sculptures , cobbles ...
In 2022, the Reserve Bank of India had total gold reserves of 787.4 tonnes. [62] India had the world's 9th largest gold reserves in 2022, and also became the world's 4th largest gold recycling country in the same year. [63] [64] The country has increased its organised gold refining capacity, with an increase from just 300 tons in 2013 to ...
(The data below does not seem to include shale oil and other unconventional sources of oil such as tar sands. For instance, North America has over 3 trillion barrels of shale oil reserves, [ citation needed ] and the majority of oil produced in the US is from shale, leading to the paradoxical data below that the US will finish all its oil at ...
This is a list of countries by recoverable shale gas based on data collected by the Energy Information Administration agency of the United States Department of Energy. [1] Numbers for the estimated amount of recoverable shale gas resources are provided alongside numbers for proven natural gas reserves .
Slate has been quarried in north Wales for almost two millennia with the Segontium Roman fort at Caernarfon being roofed by local slate in the late second century. Export of slate has been carried out for several centuries, which was recently confirmed by the discovery in the Menai Strait of the wreck of a 16th-century wooden ship carrying finished slates.
This page shows the state-wise list of dams and reservoirs in India. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] As of July, 2019, total number of large dams in India is 5,334. [ 3 ] About 447 large dams are under construction in India . [ 4 ]
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Conservation Reserves are the legally protected areas which act as a buffer zone or connectors or migratory corridors between two ecologically separated wildlife habitats to avoid fragmentation. The wildlife conserves are declared by the state government in official gazette. [ 1 ]