India’s zinc consumption is estimated to increase
Context:
Recently, International Zinc Association (IZA), estimated that India’s zinc consumption is going to increase to over 2 million tonnes in the next 10 years from the current 1.1 million tonnes.
Relevance:
GS01 (Minerals and energy resources)
Highlights:
- The zinc consumption and demand in India is 1.1 million tonnes (MT), which is higher than the current production in India.
- The global zinc market is around 13.5 million tonnes per annum in terms of primary production
More information:
- India is the world’s fourth-largest producer of zinc and in the year 2022, India produced 830,000 metric tons of zinc.
- Reserves: India is also the seventh-largest in the world in terms of zinc reserves. It has an estimated 9.6 million metric tons of zinc reserves.
- Mines: The country also houses world’s largest zinc mines. The Rampura Agucha mine, was the third-leading zinc producing mine in the world in 2022.
- India consumes 0.4 kg of zinc per capita.
- India has banned open cast mining of zinc since 2018.
- India began producing zinc with modern technology in 1966 at the Smelter at Debari.
- Rajasthan is the largest producer of Zinc in India.
- Udaipur is known as the Zinc City because of it mines and smelter.
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