IBM, NMDC hold CMEMT-2025

 

 

A DAY-LONG seminar on ‘Critical Minerals’ Extraction from Mines Tailing & Waste: Opportunities and Challenges’ CMEMT-2025, jointly hosted by the Indian Bureau of Mines (IBM) and the National Mineral Development Corporation (NMDC) Limited in Nagpur, recently. Around 180 attendees participated in the brainstorming technical session. P N Sharma, Controller General (I/c), in his address, said the era of fossil fuel-basedy energies is gradually going away. Pankaj Kulshrestha, Chief Controller of Mines, said technological advancements have paved the way to search for alternative methods to secure the supply of critical minerals.

 

S K Adhikari, Chief Mining Geologist, IBM, noted that there is a huge gap between exploration and exploitation which has led to a shift in the focus of the Government. M Jaypal Reddy, Executive Director, NMDC Limited, thanked IBM for offering to jointly host the seminar. The keynote address was delivered by Rajib Maitra, Partner, Consulting, Delloite India. Dr Abdul Rauf Sheik, Principal Scientist, CSIR-IMMT, Bhubaneswar; Chandrakala Kari, Lead Scientist, Metals & Mining, Hindalco; Abhinav Sengupta (PwC); Niroj Kumar Panda (AMD); Keshaw C Mandal (HCL); Gajanan U Kapure (Tata Steel), Dr Upendra Singh (JNARDDC), Mohammad Dasthageer (MECL) were among the speakers.