Vaikundarajan, VV Minerals Taking Heavy Mineral Mining Of India To Global Heights
Tamil Nadu, India, October 17, 2014 (Newswire.com) - Specifically talking about heavy mineral mining and its importance, the article further goes ahead to talk about pioneers of this industry in India, that have proven to the entire nation that India has great scope in global markets in this sector.
Heavy minerals are found either on the beach or on mountain tops. One the beach they are found as placer deposits, settled over the course of time due to motion of the waves. Such deposits are abundantly found in India on the South Indian coastline along Tamil Nadu and Kerala. These deposits are processed and separated from normal sand particles and then can be useful for myriad industrial and daily life processes. Products like Garnet are used in water filteration, sand blasting. Ilmenite and Rutile are used in making TiO2 used in paints ship building and defense industries; and a few others.
In Tamil Nadu, the heavy mineral mining is still at the nascent stage. Whatever progress has been seen is because of the tremendous efforts put in by few private mining companies like VV Minerals. This can all be credited to private miners like Mr. Vaikundarajan. They conduct beach sand mining of minerals like garnet, zircon, rutile and ilmenite. They have been one of the first private companies in India to start exporting such minerals commercially to other nations. Established in 1989, they have now become a global super power in this industry. Nonetheless, they now aim to be the best all over the world.
Mr. S. Vaikundarajan owns a heavy mineral mining company named VV Minerals, India. VV Mineral is based in Tamil Nadu. Mr. Vaikundarajan had started this company 2 decades ago and today his company stands to be nation’s leading private heavy mineral mining company. They have an annual output of about 7,00,000 tonnes of heavy minerals.
VV Mineral, Vaikundarajan have received innumerous awards and accolades in the export business. The Industry in Tamil Nadu is right now at a standstill, because of the illegal sand mining activities conducted by a few private miners. Initially, even VV Mineral was alleged in this scam but after the investigations were conducted and concluded they were given the green chit from the central government, as their involvement in the scam was proven a hoax.
Mr. Vaikundarajan comes from a very humble background; all that he is today has been achieved by his own efforts. He has provided India with a better future for global prospects in International trade and export business. He is the Chairman and Managing Director of the company right now. His son Mr. V. Subramanian is also one of the Directors of the company. It is a family owned business; the other directors include Mr. J. Muthurajan and S. Jegatheesan.