CURRENT AFFAIRS

Detailed explanation-1: -➡Arunachal Pradesh is likely to become India’s prime producer of Vanadium. Vanadium is a high-value metal used in strengthening steel and titanium. ➡Exploration being carried out by the Geological Survey of India (GSI) has placed the eastern Arunachal Pradesh on the vanadium map of the country.

Detailed explanation-2: -Arunachal Pradesh, considered a sleeping hydropower giant, could be India’s prime producer of vanadium, a high-value metal used in strengthening steel and titanium.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Geological Survey of India has found promising concentrations of Vanadium in the Tamang and Depo areas of Arunachal Pradesh.

Detailed explanation-4: -Geological Survey of India (GSI) has found promising concentration of vanadium in the palaeo-proterozoic carbonaceous phyllite rocks in the Depo and Tamang areas of Arunachal Pradesh’s Papum Pare district.

Detailed explanation-5: -According to the United States Geological Survey (USGS)1, China, South Africa and Russia are the world’s main producers of vanadium. Petroleum residue is another source of vanadium.