IREL (India) Limited (Official)- CPSE under DAE

IREL (India) Limited incorporated on August 18,1950 established its first unit in Rare Earths Division (RED), Aluva, Kerala to extract Rare Earths and other strategic elements for the energy security of the Country. It became a full-fledged Government of India Undertaking under the administrative control of Department of Atomic Energy (DAE) in the year 1963 and subsequently, took over companies engaged in mining and separation of heavy minerals in southern part of the country, by establishing two Mineral Divisions, one at Chavara, Kerala and the other at Manavalakurichi, Tamilnadu. IREL commissioned its largest flagship heavy mineral mining & separation unit, Orissa Sands Complex (OSCOM) at Chatrapur, Odisha in 1986. Presently IREL has established plant capacity of about 6 lakh tons per annum (tpa) of minerals production i.e. Ilmenite and other associated heavy minerals viz. Rutile, Zircon, Sillimanite and Garnet at its three Mineral Divisions. IREL has also set up a Rare Earths Ext...