Answer» Correct Answer - Option 4 : All of these
The correct answer is option 4. - Marble Development and Conservation Rule - 2002
- Notified by Government of India in 2002.
- Rajasthan Mineral Policy - 2015
- Rajasthan Mineral Policy 2015 released by the chief minister Vasundhara Raje.
- It raises the mineral exploitation area in the state to 1.5% from the existing 0.54%.
- District Mineral Foundation Trust Rules - 2016
- Rajasthan state government issued notification dated 31-05-2016, enacted DMFT Rules, 2016.
- It will establish District Mineral Foundation trust in each district of the state as a non-profit body in the mining operation affected districts.
- Rajasthan Minor Mineral Concession Rules (Amended up to May 2016)
- In exercise of the powers conferred by section 15 of the Mines and Minerals (Development and Regulation) Act, 1957.
- The State Government repealed the Rajasthan Mineral Concession Rules, 1986.
- The new rules are called the Rajasthan Minor Mineral Concession (Amendment) Rules, 2016.
- As per the available legislations in the country, all minerals have been classified into two categories namely:
- Major Mineral
- Major Mineral are minerals like Agate, Asbestos, Barytes, Bauxite, Cadmium, Calcite, China Clay, Coal, Copper Lead, Manganese, Mica, Nickel, Rock Phosphate, Soapstone, Tungsten, Wollastonite, Zinc, etc.
- It is specified in Second Schedule appended with the MMDR Act 1957.
- Minor Mineral
- The Minor Minerals are Building Stone, Gravel, Ordinary Clay, Ordinary Sand and any other mineral which the Central Government may by notification in the official Gazette declare as Minor Mineral.
- The Minor Minerals are Bajri Brick Earth, Chips and Powder making minerals, Diorite, Granite, Kankar, Limestone, Marble, Masonry stones, Sand Stone, Serpentine and other Decorative Stone, etc.
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