Hindustan Copper

India needs to strengthen the critical mineral value chain while building international partnerships for resources and technology.

In episode 107 of the India Energy Hour, Mr. Sanjeev Kumar Singh, former CMD of Hindustan Copper Limited, joins Dr. Sandip Pai for a conversation on India's critical minerals trajectory.

Drawing on his experience at CMPDI, NTPC, and Hindustan Copper, Mr. Singh discusses where India's critical minerals strategy stands today and the gaps that need to be addressed.

The conversation also covers deeper exploration, stronger processing and refining, and greater collaboration across India's critical mineral value chain.

So what we had to design in that MDO document, the quality aspect, which Coal India doesn't take into account to that extent, but quality even 100 GCV plus minus was a lot for us because of the performance of the boilers and all that.

And because of that, some of our mines in, our captive mines in NTPC which were connected to power plants, the power plants, the cost of power generation was 70 paise, 71 paise, 72 paise by this type of, uh, planning and all that.

So that was what I did, and after that, I got selected by, uh, EACD, which is a government of India body, and I went to Hindustan Copper Limited as Director Mining.

And there I saw that the mines which were closed in Jharkhand, particularly that state, they got opened.