India: zinc concentrate production volume 2024

In financial year 2022, the volume of zinc concentrate production in India amounted to an estimated 1.49 million metric tons. This is estimated to have increased to around 1.53 million metric tons of zinc concentrate in financial year 2024.

Zinc mining in India

As of 2022, India was ranked as the world's fourth-largest zinc mining country, with mine production having amounted to an estimated 830,000 metric tons. Furthermore, India's zinc reserves amounted to an estimated 9.6 million metric tons that year, which placed India as having the seventh-largest zinc reserves in the world. India is home to several of the world's largest zinc mines, including the Rampura Agucha mine, which produced some 434,240 metric tons of zinc concentrate in 2022, and which was the third-leading zinc producing mine in the world that year. Since 2018, there has been a ban on open cast mining of zinc in India.

Zinc trade from India

In the financial year 2022, the value of India's exports of zinc and its products amounted to over one billion U.S. dollars. There was also considerable imports and exports of zinc slab from India in 2021.

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Release date

August 2024

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Region

India

Survey time period

FY 2012 to FY 2024

Supplementary notes

* Provisional figures. India's financial year starts in April and ends in March. For example, FY 2019 started in April 2018 and ended in March 2019.

One Indian rupee is equal to 0.011 euros and 0.012 U.S. dollars (as of September 2024).

Figures have been rounded.
This statistic was compiled using several releases of the publication.

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