NMDC

National Mineral Development Corporation or NMDC

It was incorporated in 1958 as a Government of India wholly owned public enterprise. It comes under the administrative control of the Ministry of Steel, Government of India.

And since inception, it is involved in the exploration of a wide range of minerals which includes iron ore, and copper, rock phosphate, limestone, dolomite, gypsum, bentonite, magnesite, diamond, tin, tungsten, graphite, beach sands, and many more. It is also India's single largest iron ore producer and exporter, which is presently producing about 30 million tonnes of the iron ore from three fully mechanized mines which are Bailadila Deposit–14/11C, and Bailadila Deposit–5, 10/11A in Chhattisgarh State and lastly Donimalai Iron Ore Mines in Karnataka State, and all of these are awarded the ISO 9001–2000 certification.

It is the only mechanized diamond mine in India with a capacity of 1.00 lakh carats per annum at Panna in the Madhya Pradesh. This particular mine remained non–operational since August 22, 2005, according to the directives of the MP Pollution Control Board. And now, when the issues have been resolved, and the formal orders had been received from the state government on June 19, 2009, the mining operations have taken up a quick pace.

It has a secure back up of an ISO 9001 certification R&D Centre, which has also been declared as one of the 'Centre of Excellence' in the field of mineral processing by the Expert Group of UNIDO.

It has also made some of the most valuable and substantial contributions to the national efforts specifically in the mineral sector during the last five decades & also has been accorded the status of the schedule–A Public Sector Company. If we keep the recognition of the company's growing status and consistently excellent performance, then it has been categorized by the renowned Department of Public Enterprises as the 'Navratna' Public Sector Enterprise in 2008.