TOTAL DISTRIBUTION OF VEDANTA M.N.C

ALL OVER THE WORLD

VASTLY DISTRIBUTED

STRETCHES ITS BRANCHES WORLD WIDE

Australia
Copper Mines of Tasmania: An underground copper mining operations located in Tasmania with ore production capacity of 2.8mtpa. This is supplied entirely to Sterlite’s copper smelter operations in India.

India
Sterlite Industries Limited: The business comprises of 0.4 mpta copper smelting and refining operations. The company is doubling the capacity to 0.8 mtpa with captive power plant.

MALCO: The company has a power plant with a generation capacity of 100 MW.

BALCO: A leading Indian aluminium producer with operations in the state of Chhattisgarh, BALCO currently has 245ktpa smelting capacity, 810MW power generation facilities

Vedanta Aluminium: VAL is based in eastern India and operates a 1mtpa alumina refinery at Lanjigarh. At Jharsuguda, VAL operates 500ktpa aluminium smelter and an associated 1,215MW captive power plant. VAL also has a 1.25mtpa aluminium smelter project at Jharsuguda.

Sesa Goa: Sesa Goa is India's largest private sector iron ore producer-exporter, with mining and processing facilities located in the states of Goa and Karnataka.

Sterlite Energy: It has two major power plant projects for commercial power generation – the 2,400MW power plant at Jharsuguda, Orissa of which two units were operations at the end of FY 2010-11, and the 2,640MW power plant at Talwandi Sabo, in Punjab.

Zambia
Konkola Copper Mines:
Namibia
Sterlite own the Skorpion mine in Namibia. This asset was acquired from Anglo American’s zinc business.

South Africa
Sterlite owns 74% of Black Mountain Mining in South Africa, which includes the Black Mountain Mine and Gamsberg project. This asset was acquired from Anglo American’s zinc business.

Liberia
Acquired Liberia Iron ore assets with an estimated 1bn tonne reserves and resources in FY 2011-12.

Ireland
Sterlite picked up 100% stake in the Lisheen Mine during the acquisition of the zinc business from Anglo American

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M.TECH IN MINING.

TOTAL NUMBER OF SEATS FOR M.TECH IN MINING ENGINEERING

ONLY 3 INSTITUTES OF TECHNOLOGIES IN INDIA GIVES A 2 YEAR M.TECH COURSE

IN MINING AND RELATED DICIPLINES.

Indian Institute of Technology,Kharagpur.

M.Tech in Mining Engineering------------------------------------------------------------------------------------30

Indian School of Mines Dhanbad.

M.Tech in Mining Engineering-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------12

M.Tech in Opencast Mining-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------18

M.Tech in Mine Planning & Design-------------------------------------------------------------------------------12

M.Tech in Rock Excavation Engg.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------18

M.Tech in Geomatics--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------18

M.Tech in Underground Space Technology-------------------------------------------------------------------18

Benaras Hindu University, Institute of Technoloby, Varanasi.Mining Engineering--------------23

a) Mine Environment

b) Rock Mechanics

c) Mine Planning

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10 reasons why Aakash tablet can be a failure

                            10 reasons why Aakash tablet can be a failure

Tablet cost – Rs 2500
Shipping cost – Rs. 200
A 4GB or 8GB MicroSD card – Rs 500 to Rs 800
No earphones given, purchase one – At least Rs. 400
Total: Rs 4000

Faulty Processor:
Low memory + short storage = no entertainment:
Low battery, 2100 mAh:
Poor display, reflects light
Touchscreen is resistive, but too resistive:
Heating up quickly:
No Bluetooth support:
No Android Market, no application upgrade:
Hardware won’t support upgrades:
Wi-Fi connectivity and poor network in India:
No external speakers:

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MINING IN AVATAR

AVATAR MOVIE BASED ON MINING IN PANDORRA FOR UNABTONIUM		t)
It's enough to make a mining executive grit his teeth or his kids to give him the slient treatment. In a case of art imitating life -- with perhaps a little poetic licence -- Oscar-winning movie Avatar paints big mining companies as the villians of the future. However, real-life executives are not entirely amused by their fictional colleagues being cast in evil roles in what is already the biggest-grossing Hollywood movie of all time. "I gritted my teeth a few times over the manner the mining company was presented," said Charles Jeannes, chief executive officer of Canada's Goldcorp. "I loved Avatar, once you get passed the storyline, I loved the graphics." The storyline of the James Cameron-directed movie, set in the year 2154, involves humans mining a mineral called unobtanium on the planet Pandora. Expansion of the mining colony threatens the existence of the tribe of Na'vi, a humanoid species. Unobtanium Dennis Wheeler, CEO of Coeur d'Alene Mines Corp said he was keen to see it. But, when informed the film's mining company was portrayed as damaging the environment with no regard for the local communities, Wheeler laughed: "Well, that's not futuristic!" He noted that was the perception of the mining industry by many people, even if it was not the reality. He noted his company established a partnership with Alaskan native groups to provide workers for its Kensington gold mine and had done similiar work in Bolivia and Mexico around its silver mines. Gerald Grandey, CEO of Saskatchewan, uranium miner Cameco Corp., appeared resigned to the fact mining companies get a bad reputation driven by environmentalists. "When you get a movie like Avatar -- I have seen it and actually enjoyed it -- I thought it was just unfortunate they defaulted to the easy conflict. It was too convenient to go back to the old stereotypes. "In Saskatchewan, there are 28 aboriginal communities who had never heard of mining ... and now, after 25 years, well over 50 per cent of our employees are aboriginal. "What we've done is ... overcome the peer pressure, the stereotypes, the culture, the welfare dependecy, the drug and alcohol abuse, and one movie can put that back." Richard Adkerson, Freeport-Mc-MoRan Copper & Gold's president, CEO, took a measured approach. "Well I don't consider ... us a whipping boy and I don't consider the environmentalists to be those characters," Adkerson said. "We have a big impact on the environment where we operate. And we spend huge resources to manage that impact and to try to do things in the right way," said Adkerson, who said he wanted to see Avatar in 3-D. Mining Unobtanium on Pandora

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mining

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