Concerns grow over depletion of barytes reserves
Environmentalist Boliseti Satyanarayana is calling for an urgent ban on the export of high-grade barytes from the Mangampeta mines in India. He argues that the mineral is a strategic resource for oil security and that current extraction practices are causing environmental degradation.
Why it matters
Barytes are essential for global oil drilling, and the depletion of these reserves could impact India's long-term energy security and industrial stability.
Environmentalist Boliseti Satyanarayana on Monday called for urgent measures to protect the barytes deposits at Mangampeta in Kadapa district, describing them as a strategic mineral resource critical to the country’s oil security rather than an ordinary mineral.
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