Updated on : 25/10/2004

MINES AND MINERALS

(DEVELOPMENT AND REGULATION) ACT, 1957

(No. 67 of 1957)

 

 

 

 New Delhi, the 14th   October, 2004

G.S.R..677(E).- In exercise of the powers conferred by sub-section (3) of section 9 of the Mines and Minerals (Development and Regulation) Act, 1957 (67 of 1957), the Central Government hereby makes with immediate effect, the following further amendments to the Second Schedule to the said Act,  namely :-

In the Mines and Minerals (Development and Regulation) Act, 1957, for the Second Schedule, the following Schedule shall be substituted, namely :-

"THE SECOND SCHEDULE

(See section 9)

RATES OF ROYALTY IN RESPECT OF MINERALS AT ITEM 1 TO 10 , 12 TO 38 AND 40 TO 51 APPLICABLE IN ALL STATES AND UNION TERRITORIES EXCEPT THE STATE OF WEST BENGAL.

1. Agate

Ten percent of sale price  on ad valorem basis.

2. Apatite and Rock  Phosphate                        ( i ) Apatite

                                                                                                        Five percent of sale price  on ad valorem basis.

(ii) Rock Phosphate

(a)   above 25 per cent

P2O5

  Eleven per cent of sale price  on ad valorem basis .

(b)upto 25 per cent

       P2O5

Five per cent of sale price  on ad valorem basis .

3. Asbestos

    (a) Chrysotile

                                                                                                     Eight hundred rupees per tonne.

(b)   Amphibole

Forty five rupees per tonne.

4. Barytes

Five and half per cent of sale price  on ad valorem basis.

5.Bauxite and   Laterite

(a) Zero point four zero percent of London Metal  Exchange Aluminium metal price chargeable on the contained aluminium metal in ore produced for those  despatched for use  in  alumina and aluminium metal extraction.

(b) Twenty percent of sale price on  ad valorem basis for those despatched  for  use  other than alumina and aluminium metal extraction and  for export

6.Brown Ilmenite (Leucoxene), Ilmenite,Rutile and Zircon

Two per cent of sale price  on ad valorem basis.

 

7. Cadmium

Ten per cent of sale price  on ad valorem basis.

8. Calcite

Fifteen per cent of sale price  on ad valorem basis.

9. China clay/Kaolin : (including ball clay, white shale and white clay)

(a) Crude

 

 

   Twenty three rupees per tonne.

 (b) Processed      (including washed)

Eighty five rupees per tonne.

10. Chromite

  Seven and half per cent of sale price  on ad valorem basis.

11. Coal (including Lignite)

*

12. Copper

 

 

Three point two per cent of London Metal Exchange Copper metal price chargeable on the contained copper metal in ore produced.

13. Corundum

Ten per cent of sale price  on ad valorem basis.

14. Diamond

Ten per cent of sale price  on ad valorem basis.

15.Dolomite

Forty five rupees per tonne.

16. Felspar

Ten per cent of sale price  on ad valorem basis.

17. Fire Clay  Including plastic, pipe, lithomargic and natural pozzolanic clay)

Twelve per cent of sale price  on ad valorem basis.

18. Fluorspar (also called fluorite)

Five per cent of sale price  on ad valorem basis.

19. Garnet : (a) Abrasive

(b) Gem

Three per cent of sale price  on ad valorem basis.

Ten per cent of sale price  on ad valorem basis.

20. Gold :

(a)   Primary

 

(b) By-product gold

 

One and half per cent of London Bullion Market  Association Price(commonly  referred to  as "London Price") chargeable on the contained  gold metal in  ore produced.

Two and half per cent of  London Bullion Market Association Price( commonly referred to  as  "London Price") chargeable on  the   by product gold metal  actually produced.

21. Graphite

    (a) with 80 per cent or more fixed carbon

Two hundred and twenty five rupees per tonne

(b)   with 40 per cent   or more  fixed carbon but less than 80 percent fixed carbon

One hundred and thirty rupees per tonne

(c)   with less than 40  percent fixed carbon

Fifty rupees per tonne.

 

22. Gypsum

Twenty per cent of sale price  on ad valorem basis.

23. Iron ore:

(i) Lumps:

(a)with  65 percent Fe content or  more

 

Twenty seven  rupees per tonne

( b) with 62 percent Fe content or more but less than 65 per cent Fe content

Sixteen  rupees per tonne.

(c) with less than 62 per cent Fe content

Eleven  rupees per tonne.

(ii) Fines:

(a) With 65 per cent Fe content or  more

(b) With 62 per cent Fe content or more but less than 65 per cent Fe content

(c) with less than 62 per cent Fe content

                                             

Nineteen  rupees per tonne .

 

  Eleven  rupees per tonne.

 

Eight  rupees per tonne .

 

 (iii) Concentrates prepared by beneficiation and/or concentration of low grade ore containing 40 per cent Fe or less

Four  rupees per tonne.

 

 

 

24. Kyanite

Ten per cent of sale price  on ad valorem basis.

25. Lead

Five per cent of London Metal Exchange lead metal price chargeable on the contained lead metal in ore produced

26. Limestone

  (a) L.D. Grade (less than one and half per cent silica content)

 

 

Fifty five rupees per tonne.

(b) Others

Forty five rupees  per tonne.

27. Lime Kankar

Forty five rupees per tonne.

28. Limeshell

Forty five rupees per tonne.

29. Magnesite

Three per cent of sale price  on ad valorem basis.

30. Manganese Ore

(a) Ore of all grades

 

  Three per cent of sale price  on ad valorem basis.

      (b) Concentrates

One per cent of sale price  on ad valorem basis.

31. Crude Mica, Waste Mica and Scrap Mica

Four per cent of sale price  on ad valorem basis.

32. Monazite

One hundred and twenty five rupees per tonne.

33. Nickel

 

Zero point one two percent of London Metal Exchange nickel metal price chargeable on contained nickel metal in ore produced.

34. Ochre

Fifteen  rupees per tonne.

35. Pyrites

Two per cent of sale price  on ad valorem basis.

36. Pyrophyllite

Fifteen per cent of sale price  on ad valorem basis

37. Quartz, Silica sand, Moulding sand and Quartzite

Twenty  rupees per tonne.

 

38. Ruby

Ten per cent of sale price  on ad valorem basis.

39. Sand for stowing

**

40. Selenite

Ten per cent of sale price  on ad valorem basis.

41. Sillimanite

Two and half per cent of sale price  on ad valorem basis.

42. Silver :

a)     By -product

  (b) Primary silver

 

Five per cent of London  Metal Exchange Price chargeable on by  product silver metal actually produced.

Five per cent of  London  Metal Exchange silver metal price  chargeable on the contained silver metal in  ore produced.

43. Slate

Forty five rupees per tonne.

44. Talc, Steatite and Soapstone

Fifteen per cent of sale price  on ad valorem basis.

45. Tin

Five per cent of London Metal Exchange tin metal price chargeable on the contained tin metal in ore produced.

46. Tungsten

 

Twenty rupees per unit per cent of contained WO3 per tonne of ore and on pro rata basis.

 

 

47. Uranium

Five rupees (for dry ore with U3O8 content of zero point zero five  per cent with pro rata increase/ decrease at the rate of  one rupee and fifty paise  per metric tonne of ore for zero point zero one per cent increase/decrease ).

48. Vermiculite

Three per cent of sale price  on ad valorem basis.

49. Wollastonite

Ten per cent of sale price  on ad valorem basis.

 

50. Zinc 

Six point six per cent of London Metal Exchange zinc metal price  on ad valorem basis chargeable on contained zinc  metal in ore produced.

51. All other minerals not here-in-before specified[Clay (Others), Chalk, Diaspore, Dunite, Felsite, Fuschite, Quartzite, Jasper, Perlite,Rock Salt, Shale, Pyroxenite, etc.]

Ten per cent of sale price  on ad valorem basis.

 

 

 

*.  Rates of royalty in respect of item  No. 11 relating to Coal including Lignite  as revised vide notification number G.S.R. 572 (E), dated the 16th August, 2002, of the  Government of India in the Department of Coal shall remain in force  until revised through    a separate notification by the Department of Coal.

**.       Rates of royalty in respect of item No.39 relating to Sand For Stowing as revised vide notification number G.S.R. 214(E), dated  the 11th April, 1997,  will remain in force until revised through a separate notification by the Department of Coal.

  Note : The rates of royalty for the State of   West Bengal  in respect of the minerals except the mineral specified against item No.11 shall remain the same as specified in the notification of the Government of India in the Ministry of Steel and Mines (Department of Mines) number G.S.R. 458 (E), dated the 5th May,1987.”.  

                                                                                                                              (F. No. 3/1/2002-MVI)

 

(PRASHANT  MEHTA)

JOINT SECRETARY TO GOVERNMENT OF INDIA

  Note :   The Second Schedule  to  the Mines and Minerals (Development and Regulation)Act, 1957 was amended earlier vide notification numbers.:-

1.      GSR No. 175(E) dated 31st March, 1975

  1. GSR No. 407(E) dated 14th July, 1975.
  2. GSR No. 584(E) dated 13th December, 1975.
  3. GSR No. 321(E) dated 12th June, 1978.
  4. GSR No. 2(E) dated 1st January, 1979.
  5. GSR No. 67(E) dated 13th February, 1979.
  6. GSR No. 63(E) dated 12th February, 1981.
  7. GSR No. 449(E) dated 23rd July, 1981.
  8. GSR No. 458(E) dated 5th May, 1987.
  9. GSR No. 856(E) dated 14th October, 1987.
  10. GSR No. 516(E) dated 1st August, 1991.
  11. GSR No. 100(E) dated 17th February, 1992.
  12. GSR No. 748(E) dated 11th October, 1994.
  13. GSR No. 27(E) dated 13th January, 1995.
  14. GSR No. 214(E) dated 11th April, 1997.
  15. GSR No. 713(E) dated 12th September 2000.
  16. GSR No. 187(E) dated  15th March, 2001.
  17. GSR.No.572(E) dated  16th August, 2002.