Soapstone Mining in Bageshwar District
- Recently, the Supreme Court allowed 29 leaseholders in Uttarakhand’s Bageshwar district to resume soapstone (talc) mining using machinery.
- Bageshwar district, located in the ecologically sensitive Kumaon Himalaya region, is rich in soapstone deposits.
- Soapstone is a soft metamorphic rock composed of talc with varying proportions of chlorite, dolomite, and ....
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