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Offshore Areas Atomic Minerals Operating Right Rules, 2025
July 25 , 2025
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- The new rules are notified under the Offshore Areas Mineral (Development and Regulation) Act, 2002.
- The Ministry of Mines, in the coordination with the Department of Atomic Energy, notified this rule.
- These Rules will only apply if the concentration of atomic minerals is above a certain minimum level.
- The Department of Atomic Energy and the Atomic Energy Regulatory Board (AERB) will serve as the nodal oversight agencies.
- The Foreign firms are very effectively barred from the direct participation unless subcontracted under highly restrictive guidelines and only with the prior security clearance from ministries including defence, home, and environment.
- Under the rules, exploration will be allowed without a license, but only for notified government agencies.
- Any later discovery of the atomic minerals above threshold grades, as defined in alignment with the Atomic Mineral Concession Rules, 2016, must be reported to the Directorate of Atomic Minerals Exploration and Research (AMD).
- Exploration and production plans should comply with the “Offshore Area Mineral Conservation and Development Rules, 2024”.
- India has a limited resource of uranium but a large resource of thorium.
- Most of the uranium deposits in India are small and of far lower grade compared to those in the leading uranium-producing countries in the world.
- The beach sands of Kerala and Orissa have rich reserves of monazite.
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