3872 x 2592 px | 32,8 x 21,9 cm | 12,9 x 8,6 inches | 300dpi
Date de la prise de vue:
décembre 2011
Lieu:
Chavara Beach,Chavara,Kollam,Kerala,India
Informations supplémentaires:
The Heavy Mineral Sand deposits in Kerala contain an assemblage of Ilmenite, Rutile, Leucoxene, Monazite, Zircon and Sillimanite. The kerala State (South Indian state of India) possesses one of the world class deposits of mineral sands in the coastal tracts.Chavara deposit in Chavara Beach portion contains concentration of heavy minerals above 60%. The Chavara deposit is estimated to contain 127 million tonnes of heavy minerals with ilmenite content of 80 million tonnes from the total reserve of raw sand of the order of 1400 million tonnes.Precious soils in Chavara beach is of black and white mixed colors (seen in the photograph) .KMML factory (The Kerala Minerals and Metals Limited) Doing Soil mining and exploring the precious mineral content with the permission of geological survey of India and Indian government.Due to Mining, some parts of beaches are now taken by the Arabian sea and coastal area is depleting to a certain extend.Scene of Mineral rich beach taken from Chavara Beaches at Kerala, India.
