Arunachal Pradesh is likely to become India’s prime producer of Vanadium, a high-value metal used in strengthening steel and titanium. It is to be mentioned that exploration carried out by the Geological Survey of India (GSI) has placed the eastern Arunachal Pradesh on the vanadium map of the country.

Reports say, geologists are confident of identifying a deposit soon. Even though India is a significant consumer of Vanadium, it has not been a prime producer of the essential metal. As per the GSI officials, the metal has been recovered as a by-product from a slag that was collected from the processing of vanadiferous magnetite ores.

According to a geo-specialist, they have found promising concentrations of vanadium in the palaeo-proterozoic carbonaceous phyllite rocks in the Depo and Tamang areas in Papum Pare district of the Himalayan state. This high vanadium content is associated with graphite with a fixed carbon content of up to 16 percent.