{"id":119381,"date":"2021-07-30T10:15:17","date_gmt":"2021-07-30T10:15:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/?p=119381"},"modified":"2021-07-30T10:15:18","modified_gmt":"2021-07-30T10:15:18","slug":"exploration-of-lithium-by-gsi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/exploration-of-lithium-by-gsi\/","title":{"rendered":"Exploration of Lithium by GSI"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Question: On 28 July 2021; the Union government announced in the Parliament exploration of which of the following metal will be done by the Geological Survey of India (GSI)?<br><\/strong>a) Lithium<br>b) Magnesium<br>c) Aluminium<br>d) None of these<br><strong>Answer: (a)<br>Related Facts:-<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>On 28 July 2021; the Union government announced the Parliament that the Geological Survey of India (GSI) has taken up seven projects for exploration of lithium.<\/li><li>The government said that GSI, in 2021-22, will go for exploration of lithium reserves in various states of the country.<\/li><li>Lithium, a strategically important metal and a key element for new technologies.<\/li><li>Lithium (Li) finds its use in battery, ceramics, glass, telecommunication and aerospace industries.<\/li><li>The well-known uses of Lithium are in Lithium ion batteries, lubricating grease, high energy additive to rocket propellants.<\/li><li>It is also used in the optical modulators for mobile phones and as convertor to tritium used as a raw material for thermonuclear reactions i.e. fusion.<\/li><li>It should be known that at present China is the number one producer of lithium-ion batteries in the world.<\/li><li>Chinese lithium-ion battery manufacturers are likely to retain their recently acquired number one position in the next five years.<\/li><li>The U.S. and Sweden may emerge third and fourth by 2025, respectively.<\/li><li>Above position of China has been reported according to the forecast in Bloomberg New Energy Finance\u2019s (BNEF) \u2018Global Lithium-Ion Battery Supply Chain Ranking.<\/li><li>Lithium-bearing minerals fall under Part B \u2018Atomic Minerals\u2019 of the First Schedule of the Mines and Minerals Development and Regulation Act, 1957.<\/li><li>Their reserves are not available in the National Mineral Inventory.<\/li><li>According to a press release issued by the ministry, the GSI takes up different stages of mineral exploration as per the approved field season program.<\/li><li>Between 2016-17 and 2020-21, GSI carried out 14 projects on Lithium and associated elements.<\/li><li>That time GSI had taken in the exploration the states Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu &amp; Kashmir, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh, Meghalaya, Karnataka, and Rajasthan.<\/li><li>For 2021-22, GSI has taken up seven projects for Lithium exploration in Arunachal Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Jammu &amp; Kashmir, and Rajasthan.<\/li><li>Apart from the GSI, the Atomic Minerals Directorate for Exploration and Research (AMDER) is also present in this field.<\/li><li>AMDER is a constituent unit of the Department of Atomic Energy.<\/li><li>AMDER had undertaken exploration for Lithium in potential geological domains in parts of Karnataka and Rajasthan.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Links:-<\/strong><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.indianext.co.in\/2021\/07\/geological-survey-of-india-undertakes-seven-projects-for-lithium-exploration\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.indianext.co.in\/2021\/07\/geological-survey-of-india-undertakes-seven-projects-for-lithium-exploration\/<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/pib.gov.in\/PressReleseDetailm.aspx?PRID=1739885\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/pib.gov.in\/PressReleseDetailm.aspx?PRID=1739885<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: On 28 July 2021; the Union government announced in the Parliament exploration of which of the following metal will be done by the Geological Survey of India (GSI)?a) Lithiumb) Magnesiumc) Aluminiumd) None of theseAnswer: (a)Related Facts:- On 28 July 2021; the Union government announced the Parliament that the Geological Survey of India (GSI) has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":119382,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1123],"tags":[3067],"class_list":["post-119381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-snes","tag-scientific"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119381"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119381\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":119383,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119381\/revisions\/119383"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/119382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}