National Mineral Development Corporation

The NMDC limited (, ) is a state-controlled of the Government of India. It is fully owned by the Government of India and is under administrative control of the Ministry of Steel.

It is involved in the exploration of iron ore, copper, rock phosphate, limestone, dolomite, gypsum, bentonite, magnesite, diamond, tin, tungsten, graphite etc.

It is India's largest iron ore producer and exporter producing about 30 million tons of iron ore from 3 fully mechanised mines in Chhatisgarh and Karnataka. It also operates the only mechanised diamond mine in the country at Panna in Madhya Pradesh.

Operating mines

• Bailadila Iron Ore Mine, Kirandul Complex
• Bailadila Iron Ore Mine, Bacheli Complex
• Donimalai
• Panna

Strong back up of an ISO 9001 certified R&D centre, which has been declared as the "Centre of Excellence" in the field of mineral processing by the Expert Group of UNIDO.

NMDC has made valuable and substantial contribution to the national efforts in the mineral sector during the last five decades and has been accorded the status of schedule-A Public Sector Company. The company has been recently categorized by the Department of Public Enterprises as "NAVA RATNA" Public Sector enterprise.

The story of NMDC is woven around the dreamy hills and the deep jungle land of Bastar in Chattigrah, known as Dandakaranya from the epic periods. The Bailadila iron ore range – "The hump of an ox" – in the local dialect, was remote, inaccessible and replete...
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