Industrial Minerals Completes C$2.1M Financing
OTTAWA, ONTARIO–(Marketwire – March 8, 2010) – Industrial Minerals Inc. (“IDSM”) (OTCBB:IDSM) announces that its wholly-owned subsidiary, Northern Graphite Corporation (“Northern” or the “Company”), formerly Industrial Minerals Canada Inc., has completed a non-brokered private placement financing consisting of the issuance of 5,900,000 units at a price of C$0.25 per unit, each unit being …

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Minerals are one of the essential materials those are widely being used in our everyday life. Directly or indirectly we come across many of the things or objects that are being made from these materials. Many a times we even can’t identify them in common things with which we come across usually. Minerals are among the most important resources of the country as they serve a considerable contribution to the country’s foreign exchange. They are natural chemical compounds and are constituents of rock and ores. They are of different kinds and play significant role in country’s economic & industrial development.

Are you aware of India’s stockpile of minerals? & which kind of business it is enjoying in the international market of minerals & metals?

Do you know India’s position in the global stadium of minerals?

India is among the richest countries in having the mineral resources. It is grabbing many chances of getting bulk of foreign exchange that is from the large export of minerals like iron ore, manganese ore, titanium, granite & bauxite.

India has quite a wide mining sector. It owns more than 3000 mines which provide heaps of different minerals where about 8 lakh people are being employed. This is the sector which helps in the country’s Industrial development as it accounts for about 11% of India’s industrial output.

India is playing a significant role in producing and exporting the variety of minerals around the world and there are a large number of mineral suppliers in the country. About 20% of world’s total reserve of iron ore is contributed by India and about half of it is being exported to the European & Gulf countries and also to the countries like Japan and Korea. Isn’t this surprising to know that the major economic power, Japan imports iron ore from India and that is three-fourth of India’s total export of iron ore? This gives us wide idea about India’s stock of the minerals. India is counted among the largest producers of many other minerals.

India is holding the fifth position in the list of largest manganese producers that too is being exported to Japan. About 60% of world’s total production of mica is from India and it has vast reserves of bauxite too. The major countries in U.S.A., U.K., Russia and Europe export mica from India to the higher extent.

This of course gives us the idea about the wide list of Indian mineral suppliers, dealers and exporters. India has many Industrial Mineral suppliers and Industrial Mineral exporters who are dealing with the global buyers and importers. And due to the huge reserve of minerals many Metal Products manufacturers, exporters, suppliers and dealers are having a wide business of metals in & out of India. These all are having a strong hold on the international market of the respective sector.

Online business is always proved as an effective medium for the international as well as any domestic business. Online Business-2-Business portals are playing very crucial role regarding this. www.made-from-india.com is providing better chances of finest dealings with prominent business players of India in this sector. It is the most efficient B2B portal of its kind which is catering effective services globally. It has a wide dictionary of Indian Minerals & Metals manufacturers, wholesale suppliers and exporters of minerals & metals with whom a quality business of Minerals & Metals can be experienced.