Abstract
India is endowed with 6000 line km coastal length, and hosts largest and richest shoreline placer heavy mineral deposits. Innumerable REE-bearing heavy mineral placer deposits are located in various coastal stretches, including a few inland, in parts of Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Odisha and Andhra Pradesh States. Ilmenite, rutile, garnet, monazite, zircon and sillimanite comprise heavy mineral assemblage of the beach sand deposits and dunes of India. LREE mineral, monazite, with variable grades is present in most of the placers deposits of eastern and southern Indian coasts. Garnet from Kalingapatnam coast, Andhra Pradesh contains heavy REE and can form low grade, but high tonnage REE resource. Monazite, garnet and zircon show variable contents of REE. Singular occurrence of xenotime in Narsapur coast, Andhra Pradesh points to scope for further search of xenotime in other dune sands and particularly upstream inland river placers. Some of the REE deposits in Odisha (Chatrapur), Tamil Nadu (Manavalakurichi, Midalam, Vayakallur) and Kerala (Chavara) are under active exploitation by the IREL (India) Limited for recovery of beach sand minerals including monazite. Monazite is used for recovery of REE and separation of individual rare earth elements by IREL (India) Limited, an industrial arm of the Department of Atomic Energy, Government of India.
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