Solution: (d)
Hutti Gold Mines Limited (HGML) is a company located in the state of Karnataka, India and engaged in the mining and production of gold. It was first established as Hyderabad Gold Mines in 1947. It is the only company in India which produces gold by mining and processing the gold ore.
Which of the following oilfields is situated in the North-eastern region of India?
(a) Kalol
(b) Ankaleshwar
(c) Mehsana
(d) Digboi
Solution: (d)
Digboi is a town and a town area committee in Tinsukia district in the north-eastern part of the state of Assam. It has the distinction of being India’s oldest continuously producing oilfield.
What is Khetri in Rajasthan famous for?
(a) Copper mines
(b) Mica mines
(c) Bauxite mines
(d) Limestone mines
Solution: (a)
Khetri is a town in Jhunjhunu district of Rajasthan. It s situated at the foothills of the Aravalli Range, which hosts copper mineralization, giving rise to a 80 km long metallogenetic province from Singhana in the north to Raghunathgarh in the south, popularly known as Khetri Copper Belt.
“Panna” is an important place in Madhya Pradesh. It is famous for :
(a) Gold mines
(b) Silver mines
(c) Diamond mines
(d) Iron mines
Solution: (c)
Panna is famous for its diamond mines. A large group of diamond deposits extends North-East on a branch of the Vindhya Range for 240 km or so, and is known as the Panna group. Diamond mines in Panna are managed under the Diamond Mining Project of National Mineral Development Corporation (NMDC Ltd) of Government of India.
Huge deposits of uranium were recently found in
(a) Andhra Pradesh
(b) Karnataka
(c) Kerala
(d) Tamil Nadu
Solution: (a)
Tummalapalle Mine is a uranium mine in Tumalapalli village located in Kadapa of the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. Results from a research conducted by the Atomic Energy Commission of India in 2011 made the analysts conclude that this mine might have one of the largest reserves of uranium in the world.
