{"id":629151,"date":"2024-01-19T09:45:59","date_gmt":"2024-01-19T04:15:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=629151"},"modified":"2024-01-19T10:19:04","modified_gmt":"2024-01-19T04:49:04","slug":"coal-india-plans-to-begin-mining-of-critical-minerals-including-lithium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/coal-india-plans-to-begin-mining-of-critical-minerals-including-lithium\/","title":{"rendered":"Coal India plans to begin mining of critical minerals, including lithium"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>State-owned Coal India Ltd (CIL) is mulling entering into the mining of critical minerals, including lithium, an official said.<br \/>\nCIL plans to get a block from the government for exploration and once lithium reserves are proved, the PSU would go for mining, the official said. <\/p>\n<p>Lithium is the &#8216;cosmic&#8217; mineral which is needed as part of the country&#8217;s energy security plans. It is being seen as a game-changer mineral to achieve the Net Zero goals in the coming years. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We will take one block from Government of India and do exploration and once lithium is proved then we can go for mining,&#8221; Coal India Director (Technical) B Veera Reddy told reporters here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>State-owned Coal India Ltd (CIL) is mulling entering into the mining of critical minerals, including lithium, an official said. CIL plans to get a block from the government for exploration and once lithium reserves are proved, the PSU would go for mining, the official said. Lithium is the &#8216;cosmic&#8217; mineral which is needed as part of the country&#8217;s energy security plans. It is being seen as a game-changer mineral to achieve the Net Zero goals in the coming years. &#8220;We will take one block from Government of India and do exploration and once lithium is proved then we can go [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,170,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-629151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-coal-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=629151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629151\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=629151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=629151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=629151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}