Proceedings : National Seminar on Mineral Exploration and Resource Survey : Base Metals, Strategic Minerals and Rare Earths : Jaipur, December 19 and 20, 2001

Contents: 1. Study of volcanism and related metallogeny in the proterozoic South Delhi Fold Belt of Western India/P.R. Golani, A.B. Reddy, J. Bhattacharjee and K.N. Mathur. 2. Mineral resources of Rajasthan, India -- a developing scenario/Arun Vyas and B.S. Paliwal. 3. Delineation of favourable locales for lead-zinc mineralisation by integrated geophysical surveys in southern part of Sawar Metasedimentary Belt, Ajmer District, Rajasthan/L.N. Singh. S.L. Singh and A.K. Agrawal. 4. Underground gravity survey for depth persistence of Pb-Zn lodes in Zawarmala mine, Udaipur District, Rajasthan/Babu Lal, R.L. Regar and H.S. Ranhotra. 5. Geophysical studies in Dariba-Bethumbi Polymetallic Belt, Rajsamand District, Rajasthan, India/Ram Gopal. 6. Mineral and mineral based industries in Rajasthan  : some challenges and strategies for future with emphasis on conservation and environment protection/C.P. Gaur. 7. A model for the molybdenum mineralisation in Harur-Uttangarai Belt, Tamil Nadu, India/K. Nagarajan, B.V. Srinivasan, V. Ganesan, E. Balasubramanian and P. Sundar Rajan. 8. Regional pedogeochemical survey of a part of North Singhbhum Mobile Belt, Medinipur District, West Bengal -- New insight/A.K. Huin, P. Jana and N.C. Bhattacharyya. 9. Copper occurrence of Rungdu - Sodunglakha - Kerabari area, East District, Sikkim/P. Tarafdar, H. Bahuguna, P. Bhowmik and N.C. Bhattacharyya. 10. Exploration for copper in Kennedlu and Oraguntamalige Blocks, Chitradurga Schist Belt, Karnataka/M.B. Beeraiah and V. Srinivasa Murthy. 11. Soil geochemical surveys for gold and base metal targeting along the contact of acid and basic volcanics in Hutti-Maski Schist Belt, Karnataka, India/T.V. Ramachandran, S. Ramakrishna Setty Venkataswamy and A.L. Shashimohan. 12. Integrated surveys for locating concealed zinc-lead deposit in Kayar Area, Ahmer District, Rajasthan/C.P. Sisodia and A.K. Chattopadhyay. 13. Geology, metallogeny of Panchmata-Bhinder Belt and its comparative study with neighbouring proterozoic, Cover Belts, Southeastern Rajasthan/Saurabh Ray and R. Srinivasa Rao. 14. GIS based similarity analysis using multielement soil geochemistry : a tool for prospect targeting in Pindwara-Watera sector, South Delhi Fold Belt, Sirohi District, Rajasthan/D. Bhattacharyya, I.R. Kirmani, I.J. Qureshi and J.L. Narang. 15. Sustainable environment for Zawar Group of mines/M.L. Jhanwar. 16. Occurrence of rare metal bearing pegmatites in Silli Area, Ranchi District, Jharkhand/S.K. Dutta and S.P. Singh. 17. Geology, geochemistry and tectonic setting of volcano sedimentary sequence of Betul Belt, Madhya Pradesh and genesis of zinc and copper sulphide mineralisation/P.K. Raut and S.P. Mahakud. 18. Search for basemetal in Sikkim Himalaya/Amareswar Dutta, P. Bhowmick, R.K. Roy and D.L. Basu. 19. Morphology, mineralogy, paragenesis, metamorphism and genesis of lead-zinc mineralisation near Shergaon, West Kameng District, Arunachal Pradesh/S.K. Patel and Basab Mukhopadhyay. 20. Study of basemetals in Gossan zones from northern part of South Delhi Fold Belt, Rajasthan/Shabbir Hussain and V.K. Kanchan. 21. Nature and control of copper - gold mineralisation in Dhani Basri prospect, District Dausa, Rajasthan/R.K. Sharma. 22. Ore petrography, mineralogy and localization of sulphide-gold mineralisation of East Central Block, Bhukia, Banswara District, Rajasthan/D.B. Guha. 23. Correlation of major metals in Lead-zinc Deposit, Central sub-block of North Sindesar Ridge Block, Dariba-Bethumbi-Surawas Belt, Rajsamand District, Rajasthan/B.B. Sharma and S.S. Ameta. 24. Regional geochemical survey in parts of South Delhi Fold Belt, Pali District, Rajasthan/Shabbir Hussain, V.K. Chittora and D.J. Das Gupta. 25.  Occurrences of base metals and lithium in Sirban limestone and associated Jammu bauxite crust, Jammu and Kashmir/M.R. Kalsotra, Mohan Lal, K.K. Sharma, and S.C. Uppal. 26. Review of base metal exploration in Rajasthan and future strategy/Y.K. Arora and J.L. Narang. 27. Genetic implication of sulphide mineralisation in Southern Haryana - a review/Sheo Prasad, Sanjiv Sharma, R.N. Srivastava and J.L. Thussu. 28. Sediment hosted sulphide mineralisation of lesser Himalaya : evidences for carbonic-aqueous immiscibility and mixing of the fluids/Rajesh Sharma. 29. A discussion on the peripheral metamorphic piles of Gangpur Group with special reference to basemetal mineralisation in Sargipalli Area, Sundargarh District, Orissa/G.C. Das, S.P. Ghosh, P.K. Jena and M.M. Mukherjee. 30. Application of conceptual modelling for targeting of multi-metal mineralisation in Central India/K.G. Bhoskar. 31. Fluid inclusion studies in quartz and associated vein minerals of Tons Valley base metal mineralised Belt, Dehradun District, Uttaranchal/G.S. Tiwari, G.S. Agarawal and Vikram Rai. 32. Observations on the nature and type of ancient metallurgical slags present in different basemetal belts in parts of Rajasthan and Gujarat/A.K. Grover. 33. Stromatolites-a new tool for mineral exploration and resource surveys of base metals and strategic minerals in proterozoic sedimentary basins of India/K.K. Verma. 34. Sodic metasomatism - a feature of tectonomagmatic activation and its implication on metallogeny in Khetri Sub Basin, Rajasthan, India/O.P. Yadav, S.K. Saxena, A.K. Pande and K.R. Gupta. 35. Tourmalinites and its significance as pathfinder in search for mineralisation in Singhbhum Group of Rocks, Bankura District, West Bengal/Kamal K. Gangapadhyay and Subhransu Sengupta. 36. Lead mineralisation and its significance in Mahakoshal Rocks of Sonbhadra and Sidhi Districts, U.P. and M.P./G.N. Dwivedi, M.L. Yadav, Mangala Prasad, D.P. Sharma, M.A. Khan, Ram Chandra and R.D. Mehrotra. 37. Contemplations on the role of the Bundelkhand massif on structural evolution and mineralisation in the Western Indian Craton, Rajasthan, India/A.K. Basu. 38. Ore-mineralogy of Mamandur Polysulphide Deposit, South Arcot District, Tamil Nadu/J.Simhachalam and M.S. Rao. 39. National Spatial Data Infrastructure (NSDI) and the role of Geological Survey of India/E.V.R. Parthasaradhi. 40. Neoproterozoic Peralkaline Siwana Granite, Barmer District, Rajasthan and its potential for rare earth element mineralisation/M. Mohanty and S.K. Bhushan. 41. Rare earth elements and tungsten bearing pegmatites of Rakcham granitoids, Kinnaur district, Himachal Pradesh/Joginder Singh and Manoj Kumar Kaistha. 42. Structure, petrography, REE and metal characteristics of Dadhalia metaultramafic rocks of Sabarkantha District, Gujarat/A.C. Dinesh, C. Jayaprakash, B.K. Sahu and P.K. Yadav. 43. Determination of rare earth elements in geological samples by inductively coupled plasma atomic emission spectrometry/N.K. Roy, N.G. Mandal and P.C. Mandal. 44. REE Bearing albitized quartz-biotite schist of Narda Area, District Sikar, Rajasthan/Shubhabrata Mukhopadhyay and V.K. Kanchan. 45. REE pattern in Delhi Supergroup of rocks, Mahendragarh District, Haryana/A.K. Bajaj. 46. The alkali basalts of Kachchh -- a possible source for the search of REE : A case study of Anjar Area, Western India/Z.G. Ghevariya and C. Srikarni. 47. A study of rare earths and related elements in alkaline and ultramafic plugs of Kachchh, Gujarat/Z.G. Ghevariya and C. Srikarni. 48. PGE and rare-elements in Seawa Orthogneiss, Northwest lesser Himalayas/M.R. Kalsotra, K.K. Sharma and S.C. Uppal. 49. Rb/Sr values in rare metal pegmatite and aplite of Chhotanagpur Gneissic Complex, Purulia District, West Bengal - a guide for cesium investigation/S.K. Som, R.K. Prasad and M.K. Dhara. 50. Tungsten mineralisation in Sewariya Granite of South Delhi Fold Belt, North Western Indian shield/R. Krishnamurthi and T. Prabhakar. 51. Tungsten mineralisation in Rajasthan/S.S. Jain. 52. Petrochemical indicators for search of tin - tungsten mineralisation associated with malani igneous suite - an extension of metallogenic model of tosham deposit/R.K. Khorana, N.K. Dhir and R.N. Srivastava. 53. Multidisciplinary approach utilizing geological, radiometric, and radon (soil gas) surveys for delineation of subsurface polymetallic (U-Cu-Mo) veins in the Sandmata Complex, Near Chhota Udaipur, Ajmer District, Rajasthan/D.K. Sinha, B.C. Sarkar, Sohail Fahmi and M.K. Roy. 54. Mineral potential of the albitite line of Northern Rajansthan/Sumit Kumar Ray.  (One article is in Hindi).