Ministry of Mines Invites Science and Technology Project Proposals
New Delhi, June 22, 2017
Projects are invited from Academic
Institutions, Universities, National Institutes and R&D Institution
recognized by the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, Government
of India, for upto 3 years duration in the following thrust areas which have
direct bearing on mineral sector, applied and sustainable aspect of mining and
industrial applications:
2.
THRUST AREAS OF
RESEARCH IN MINES
The
broad thrust areas for supporting Research in Mining are given below:
i)
Prospecting/exploration for strategic rare and
rare earth minerals.
ii)
Development of new technology for mineral
exploration and mining on land and deep sea to locate and exploit new mineral resources.
iii)
Research in mining methods. This includes rock
mechanics, mine designing, mining equipments, energy conservation,
environmental protection and mine safety.
iv)
Improve efficiency in process, operations,
recovery of by-products and reduction in specification and consumption norms.
v)
Research in metallurgy and mineral beneficiation
techniques to utilize lower grade and finer size ores.
vi)
Extraction of value added products from mine
waste, plant tailings etc.
vii)
Development of new alloys and metal related
products, etc.
viii)
Evolve low capital and energy saving processing systems.
ix)
Production of materials of high purity.
x)
Cooperative research among organizations
associated with the mineral sector.
3.
Scientific and
Technical Merit and relevance to Industry
All organization should follow the instructions given
below before submitting the project proposals to the Ministry:-
a)
the proposal should be relevant to the overall
mandate of mining, exploration, minerals, metals value addition, waste and
environmental impact of mining and metallurgical processing
b) industry
inputs and participation
c)
Originality in terms of concept, method,
innovation, or in application;
d)
development of new methods, synthesis of advanced
materials,
e)
process improvements and innovation,
f)
design of apparatus and other research tools,
g)
process development for waste/secondary/low grade materials recovery,
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h)
zero waste mining, large data analysis and
simulation modeling etc.
i)
nature of study as experimental,
modeling/simulation and both
j)
There must be a clear enunciation of objectives
and deliverable in the proposal
k)
detailing of research methodology, design of
experiments, chosen methods of analysis appropriate and valid.
l)
intended/potential application area has to be
made clear in the proposal, industry relevance, industry participation if
appropriate
m)
potential scalability to pilot plant and later
on plant levels
n)
what are the techno economic benefits (at least
rough estimates).
Science
& Technology (S&T) projects are funded through grant-in- aid by the
Ministry of Mines through the process of project evaluation by Project
Evaluation and Review Committee (PERC) and recommended projects are approved by
the Standing Scientific Advisory Group (SSAG) constituted by the Ministry.
Projects can be submitted to the Section Officer, (Metal-IV section), Room No. 528, Block
11, 5th Floor,
CGO Complex, Ministry of Mines, Lodhi
Road, New Delhi-110001 (Phone No.-011-24364196 in the prescribed proforma by 15th July 2017
alongwith soft copy of the project proposal in
MS word format (not more than 3 MB) to the E- mail vikas.raj@nic.in . The details of terms and conditions and
the prescribed proforma are available at the website www.mines.nic.in. Those projects, which are shortlisted shall be directed
to present their
proposal either in Delhi or any other city. The Grants-in-aid will be
governed by Government of India terms and conditions as amended from time to
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