Limestone
The cement industry has great potenial in kutch since the basic raw matirial Limestone of cement grade is available in abundance.
The cement industry has great potenial in kutch since the basic raw matirial Limestone of cement grade is available in abundance.
- Location:- All over Kutch specially the western part of Kutch that is Lakhpat and Abhadasa.
- Use:- for manufacturing cement, as a building stone, as a flux in the metallurgy industry and also for manufacturing calcium carbide and calcium cyanide.
- Controlled by:- Department of Mining.
- In abhadasa Taluka 2.6 Million Ton capacity cement plant in under construction by Sanghi Cement.
- Other cement plants in offing are the AGB,DLF,Anjin,JK corpn etc.
- Yellow limestone equilant to Jesalmar yellow marbal is found at Andhav Khadir area. Marbal cuting and polishing unit is working in Bhuj GIDC.
- Production(in thousands):-3000MT. It has been also named as "Costal wealth of Kutch".The entire cement requirements of Gulf countries could be met by 7000 million mt of lime stone deposits available in western Kutch.
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