Editing Geography of India (section)

==== Minerals and ores ====
[[Image:Coal mine in Dhanbad, India.jpg|thumb|Coal mine in [[Jharkhand]].]]
India is the world's biggest producer of mica blocks and mica splittings.<ref name="MINES">{{cite web |title=India's Contribution to the World's Mineral Production |url=http://mines.nic.in/imsene.html#INDIA’S%20CONTRIBUTION%20TO%20THE%20WORLD’S%20MINERAL%20PRODUCTION |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081216005817/http://mines.nic.in/imsene.html#INDIA’S%20CONTRIBUTION%20TO%20THE%20WORLD’S%20MINERAL%20PRODUCTION |archive-date=16 December 2008 |access-date=20 November 2008 |publisher=Ministry of Mines, Government of India}}</ref> India ranks second amongst the world's largest producers of barite and chromite.<ref name="MINES" /> The Pleistocene system is rich in minerals. India is the third-largest coal producer in the world and ranks fourth in the production of [[iron ore]].<ref name="EE2" /><ref name="MINES" /> It is the fifth-largest producer of bauxite, second largest of crude steel as of February 2018 replacing Japan, the seventh-largest of [[manganese ore]] and the eighth-largest of aluminium.<ref name="MINES" /> India has significant sources of titanium ore, diamonds and limestone.<ref name="CIA">{{cite web |title=India |url=https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/countries/india/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210318202107/https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/countries/india |archive-date=18 March 2021 |access-date=16 June 2007 |work=CIA Factbook}}</ref> India possesses 24% of the world's known and economically viable [[thorium]], which is mined along shores of Kerala.<ref name="WNA">{{cite web |title=Information and Issue Briefs – Thorium |url=http://www.world-nuclear.org/info/inf62.htm |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061107083059/http://www.world-nuclear.org/info/inf62.htm |archive-date=7 November 2006 |access-date=1 June 2006 |publisher=[[World Nuclear Association]]}}</ref> Gold had been mined in the now-defunct [[Kolar Gold Fields]] in Karnataka.<ref name="Rediff">{{cite web |title=Death of the Kolar Gold Fields |url=http://www.rediff.com/news/2000/may/08gita.htm |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081210131307/http://www.rediff.com/news/2000/may/08gita.htm |archive-date=10 December 2008 |access-date=21 November 2008 |work=Rediff.com}}</ref>