Overview

• At CII’s Indian Mining Summit in New Delhi, speakers said smart policy and AI-enabled exploration are essential to supply EVs, semiconductors and clean energy industries.
• Leaders cited momentum under the National Critical Minerals Mission and the NMET while stressing that downstream refining and purification capacity is still lacking.
• Hindalco’s CTO highlighted by‑product resources such as gallium, vanadium and tellurium that require purification facilities and flagged acute shortages in mining and metallurgy talent.
• Executives urged stronger circularity systems, pointing to Novelis’s closed‑loop can recycling as a model, and called for export rules that enable scale while protecting national interests.
• Exploration finance and partnerships were identified as immediate needs, with government support for overseas exploration tied to bringing minerals back to India welcomed as a positive step.