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Natural Resources
Natural Resources play an important role in industrial development. Gujarat is endowed with important resources like minerals, marine, agriculture; as also animal wealth and human resources. The state government has taken several measures to explore and exploit these resources for further processing and value addition.
Information on important natural resources useful for industrial processing in the state is as under:

Mineral Resources
The important mineral resources in Gujarat include limestone, lignite, bauxite, bentonite, chalk, china clay, dolomite, marble and granite; besides oil and natural gas. Information on reserves and location of the important minerals is as under:
Mineral Reserves of Gujarat
Mineral Main Locations (District)
Base metal Banaskantha
Bauxite Kachchh, Jamnagar
Bentonite Kachchh, Bhavnagar, Sabarkantha
Calcite Sabarkantha
Chalk Porbandar, Rajkot
China clay Kachchh, Mahesana, Sabarkantha
Dolomite Bhavnagar, Vadodara
Fluorite Vadodara
Fireclay Surendranagar, Sabarkantha, Rajkot
Gypsum Kachchh, Jamnagar
Lignite Bharuch, Kachchh, Bhavnagar, Surat
Limestone Amreli, Kachchh, Kheda, Jamnagar,
Junagadh, Panchmahal, Banaskantha,
Bhavnagar, Sabarkantha, Porbandar
Quartz Panchmahal, Vadodara
Siderite Kachchh, Bhavnagar
Marble Panchmahal, Banaskantha, Vadodara
Coal Mahesana
Graphite Panchmahal, Vadodara
Manganese Ore Panchmahal, Vadodara
Nepheline Syenite Junagadh, Vadodara
Wollestonite Banaskantha
Granite Banaskantha, Sabarkantha, Vadodara,
Panchmahal, Mehsana

Most of Maharashtra’s known mineral resources—including manganese, coal, iron ore, limestone, copper, bauxite, silica sand, and common salt—occur in the eastern districts, with some deposits in the west. The Bhandara, Nagpur, and Chandrapur regions are particularly rich in bituminous coal. Undersea oil deposits were discovered near Mumbai in the 1970s and have since been exploited, enhancing the city’s economic importance nationally. The