Indian Bureau of Mines - Bauxite and Aluminium Statistics

Indian Bureau of Mines - Bauxite and Aluminium Statistics is the Aluminum catalog's official-government record of the Indian aluminium value chain, compiled by the Mining and Mineral Statistics and Mineral Economics divisions of India's federal mining bureau in Nagpur. Four publication families ride behind one record: the National Mineral Inventory (NMI), maintained since 1970, which holds reserves and resources for 64 minerals across more than 5,500 freehold and 7,500 leasehold deposits under the UNFC classification system; the annual Indian Minerals Yearbook, whose 2024 edition runs to roughly 680 pages including a dedicated Bauxite chapter and an Aluminium and Alumina chapter with capacity, production, reserves and company tables; monthly Average Sale Price reports for minerals and for metals; and the State Reviews that break production down state by state.

The headline number anchors everything else: all-India bauxite resources of 4,958 million tonnes as on 1.4.2020 - 646 Mt of proved Reserves plus 4,311 Mt of Remaining Resources - with metallurgical-grade ore making up about 79% of the total. Of the 74 datasets in Datadory's catalog that cover India geographically, this is the one that speaks to bauxite at source, from the same government that regulates the leases.

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Exactly as the rows land after cleaning - one row per statistic, with the chapter it came from and the reference date that governs it:

Chapter                  Indicator                              Value              Reference date
32. Bauxite              All-India resources (UNFC)             4,958 Mt           1.4.2020
32. Bauxite                ...of which Reserves                   646 Mt           1.4.2020
32. Bauxite                ...of which Remaining Resources      4,311 Mt           1.4.2020
32. Bauxite              Metallurgical-grade share              ~79%               IMYB 2024
11. Aluminium & Alumina  Major producers tracked                4 companies        IMYB 2024
ASP Minerals             Avg sale price report, latest edition  monthly table      June 2026

Reading the rows: the split between Reserves and Remaining Resources is the UNFC confidence axis, not an arithmetic remainder - the 646 Mt figure is what bankable mine plans draw on. The producer count in the Aluminium chapter traces an industry structure back to INDAL's founding in 1938, merged into HINDALCO in 2004, so company-level history rides along with the tonnage.

Those seven are verified against the publications themselves. The deposit-level NMI database carries further attributes - location, geology, exploration status, physical and chemical properties, beneficiation detail - whose exact column layout we fold under additional fields on request rather than promise sight unseen. Ask with your sample and the full sheet arrives documented.

• Geography: India, with state-level breakdowns throughout the mineral chapters and State Reviews
• Temporal: National Mineral Inventory maintained since 1970, with UNFC stock dates such as 1.4.2020; Indian Minerals Yearbook editions from 2015 through 2024; Average Sale Price reports monthly, June 2026 being the latest observed
• Granularity: monthly for sale prices, annual for yearbook production and reserves statistics, periodic multi-year updates for NMI stock figures

No other record in the catalog covers Indian bauxite at the regulating authority itself - global-series publishers stop at India as one line in a world table.

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Pick the channel and the cadence; the rows arrive identical either way - cleaned, typed, and documented against the field dictionary above. The PDF-born statistics ship as structured tables, not page scans, so the UNFC splits and state totals load straight into your models.

• Aluminium producers and smelting groups — reserve positions and state-wise ore availability when siting refineries or negotiating raw-material security.
• Mining and metals investors — the UNFC Reserve versus Remaining Resource split as the first screen on Indian bauxite exposure.
• Competitive intel and product teams — monthly domestic average sale prices to benchmark supplier quotes and import-parity arguments.
• Market researchers and consultants — the yearbook's company and capacity tables for market-sizing decks on the Indian aluminium chain.
• Journalists and academics — citable government figures with a provenance chain reaching back to 1970, useful for policy work on mineral federalism.
• Data scientists — a long-running official series for modelling Indian commodity cycles against global benchmarks.

Methodology note — the UNFC cut-off means stock figures carry a stated as-on date rather than a continuous time series; models needing yearly reserve deltas should interpolate between inventory editions and say so.

Provenance note — the yearbook compiles from multiple reporting sources and says some data are used as-is; treat single-cell values as official-but-secondary where they conflict with a primary statistical release.

Completeness note — the portal distributes much of its content as rendered documents rather than machine-readable tables, which is precisely the gap Datadory's cleaning step exists to close.

Where to go next:

• USGS Mineral Yearbook - Aluminum and Bauxite chapters — the US counterpart view with world production by country, so Indian tonnage lands in a global frame.
• International Aluminium Institute Statistics — monthly-to-annual global production series aggregated across ten regions.
• IndexMundi Aluminum Monthly Price — a 30-year monthly world benchmark to pair against IBM's domestic Indian price line.
• Best aluminum datasets — the ranked shortlist across all 13 cataloged aluminum sources.
• Aluminum data hub — every aluminum dataset, use case and persona page in one place.