{"id":644558,"date":"2025-08-28T08:20:35","date_gmt":"2025-08-28T02:50:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=644558"},"modified":"2025-08-28T09:36:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T04:06:12","slug":"govt-cancels-auction-of-5-critical-mineral-blocks-due-to-poor-response","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/govt-cancels-auction-of-5-critical-mineral-blocks-due-to-poor-response\/","title":{"rendered":"Govt cancels auction of 5 critical mineral blocks due to poor response"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The government has cancelled the auction of five critical mineral blocks, including a rare earth element (REE) block in Karnataka, in the fifth round of auction due to poor response.<\/p>\n<p>There were no bids for three blocks &#8212; two glauconite mines in Gujarat and Chhattisgarh and one Nickel and PGE (Platinum Group Element) block in Karnataka, which led to cancellation of their auction, the mines ministry said in a notice.<\/p>\n<p>Besides, sale of two other blocks &#8212; a tungsten mine in Maharashtra and an REE block in Karnataka &#8212; was annulled for lack of minimum three technically qualified bidders, it said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The government has cancelled the auction of five critical mineral blocks, including a rare earth element (REE) block in Karnataka, in the fifth round of auction due to poor response. There were no bids for three blocks &#8212; two glauconite mines in Gujarat and Chhattisgarh and one Nickel and PGE (Platinum Group Element) block in Karnataka, which led to cancellation of their auction, the mines ministry said in a notice. Besides, sale of two other blocks &#8212; a tungsten mine in Maharashtra and an REE block in Karnataka &#8212; was annulled for lack of minimum three technically qualified bidders, it [&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":[194,130,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-644558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coal-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644558","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=644558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644558\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=644558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=644558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=644558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}