For over two decades, VV Minerals India, a beach sand mining company, has been operating under the leadership of its founder, S Vaikundarajan. Recently, Atomic Energy Regulatory Board (AERB) confirmed the lack in technology to separate thorium from monazite, earlier expressed by the company.
VV Mineral India which is a heavy mineral mining company from Tamil Nadu that works with heavy minerals such as rutile, ilmenite, granite and zircon. They are one of the forerunners in the mining industry until their fame was smeared with alleged illegal heavy mineral mining activities. However, the owner and Chairman S Vaikundarajan is confident that they will come out clean.
The world’s largest reserve of Thorium can be found on the coasts of Tamil Nadu and Kerala. If the current reports are anything to go by, the Thorium deposits on Indian shores have seen a considerable decline. While the reason could be erosion, illegal export of minerals has been cited as the major problem behind this depletion. For a long time, VV Minerals has been the highest stakeholder of the mining business in these areas. While there is no evidence to justify illegal actions on behalf of the company, the scam has already done a considerable amount of damage to its reputation.
Over the last few years, VV Mineral Vaikundarajan have been under harsh criticism. From being accused of illegal sand mining to having powerful political influence, several allegations have surfaced without supporting evidence. VV Minerals India, however, has denied all the allegations against him and deemed them as a conspiracy by rival businesses to slander his company
According to research, excluding minerals like ilmenite, rutile and zircon in sand mining process could create about 5 lakh jobs and lead to big forex earnings. Following these results, Beach Sand Mineral industry has sought exclusion of these minerals. VV Minerals India founder and MD S Vaikundarajan said, “They are not used in atomic energy production and the Department of Atomic Energy (DAE) de-listed them from the list of prescribed substances with effect from January 1, 2007. But they have not been de-listed from the MMDR Act.”
The Tamilnadu Police carried out a raid at the Tirunelveli district factory and office premises of S Vaikundarajan, in association with the alleged charges of illegal beach mining of atomic particles like monosite and thorium. Vaikundarajan is the Managing Director and owner of VV Minerals.
A CBI inquiry has been sought by members of Fishermen United Front into the illegal beach sand mining. Director Secretary of the Front, A. Subash Fernando quoted that the coastal population had little faith in the inquiry team set up by CM Jayalalitha.
This presentation gives information about the current scenario of heavy mineral mining industry in india. It also talks about the top heavy mineral miners and exporters like VV Minerals, owned by S. Vaikundarajan. Read more to get more details.
Vaikundarajan Subramanian, the director of V. V. Minerals, represented the heavy minerals industry at the ‘India Mining Summit’ organized by Assocham. V. V. Minerals is one of the country's largest players in mining, manufacture and exports of garnet & ilmenite in the country.
Founded by S Vaikundarajan in late 1980s, VV Minerals is one of the largest exporters of beach minerals in India today. Ramesh Kumar Raja of Governance Today interviewed VV Mineral Vaikundarajan on India’s current position and its improvement in the world heavy minerals market.
A district collector from Tuticorin was fast to raise a voice against VV Minerals India when he was refused access to an area that was off limits to anyone who is not from the mining company. In addition to that the officer was also not carrying a valid search warrant to support his intentions. And now he claims that the company is indulging in illegal heavy mineral mining? Vaikundarajan says, “This is absurd.”
Established in 1989, VV Minerals is now India’s largest and world’s second largest mining, manufacturing and exporting company for Garnet & Ilmenite. VVM, the first Indian private Ilmenite exporter, is now present across Europe, Middle East, East Asia, Australia and the USA. VV Mineral Vaikundarajan, Director, said in an interview, “We are proud to be the largest producer of Garnet in the world, the first private producer of minerals like Zircon, Ilmenite, Rutile, Sillimanite and Leucoxene.”
Water is where life takes form and transforms into a living, breathing being and this is followed by a billion species. At VV Mineral, knowing the importance of water as a resource in the process of mineral separation, we ensure that it isn’t exploited. Instead we ensure a smart, pragmatic and studied approach to water utilisation.
A new mining law by the Centre will contain new rules defining the limit of radioactive content beyond, which private companies will not be allowed to mine. The concession period and the area to be given out on lease will also be defined by the same, VV Mineral.
Following the illegal beach mining allegations, the state government had set up a special investigation team to look into the matter. However, it has been observed that the coastal population has shown little faith in the inquiry team. The members of Fishermen United Front have been seeking a CBI inquiry.
VV Mineral Vaikundarajan has been accused of amassing assets and pecuniary resources between 2009 and 2011. The petition was dismissed citing that the petitioners failed to produce adequate documents. VV Mineral Vaikundarajan loyalists were not happy with the verdict and stood firm by their leader.
The low faith shown by Fishermen United Front in judiciary is yet unclear. Vaikundarajan, chairman of VV Minerals India, has also been accused of having political relations with the CM. While there is no evidence to prove so, fingers are being pointed at the founder of VV Minerals.
The importance heavy minerals in our daily lives. Zircon is utilized as a part of things, for example, Blades, Scissors and Golf Irons due to its strength and biocompatibility. Ilmenite is broadly utilized as a part of the assembling of excellent Photograph ash sun glasses. It can likewise be utilized as a part of plastics. VV Mineral is the largest company to export Ilmenite in India.
The new mining laws have put private rare earth mineral sector in an uncertain position. With the industry raising their concern against the law, the Centre has decided to come out with rules governing leases of atomic minerals. VV Mineral Mining is India’s largest garnet miner and exporter. “These minerals are used in ceramic and higher technology items. The origin of these minerals is traced to Western Ghats,” informs VV Minerals India.
VV Mineral Vaikundarajan is a mining industry veteran and a businessman to land the first ever commercial mining license back in the 1980’s when he started VV Mineral. VV Minerals India is now over 20 years old and is commonly known as the forerunner of the mining industry in Tamil Nadu. However, the recent allegation pertaining to a suspected beach sand mining scam has brought VV Mineral Vaikundarajan under the scanner.
The one name that comes to mind when talking about heavy mineral mining in Tamil Nadu, India is VV Mineral Mining. Garnet and Ilmenite exports from India – The company is owned By S. Vaikundarajan, with dynamic and professionally qualified family members like V Subramanian, J Muthurajan, S Jegatheeesan
VV Minerals is one of the leading heavy mining company situated in Tamil Nadu. They have been masters in maintaining business in different parts of the world and exporting raw materials safely, easily and faster. Award winning 'Garnet Exporters' of our country have become experts in transporting Heavy Mineral Raw Materials across the globe.
VV Mineral a mineral mining company based in Tamil Nadu were strained on to close their mining sites. This ban would cause an adverse affect on 50,000 families and also create unemployment for many poor people living around mining zones.
An organization called Meenavar Viduthalai Iyakaam has lodged an FIR against companies for being involved in illegal beach mining. A petition to stop illegal activities was submitted at the District Police Office in Tuticorin district. The recent allegation of illegal beach sand mining has put several mining companies in a fix. The state government has suspended all illegal activities and set up an investigation team to look into the matter. These developments are causing financial losses to companies like VV Minerals and others.
S Vaikundarajan, a sand mining baron, established VV Minerals India in 1989. For over two decades now, the company has been running under his tutelage and grown into a profitable organization. VV Minerals has bagged several national awards for its contribution to the export business. It is the first to export ilmenite and exports zircon, garnet and rutile.
The Madras High Court observed that the mining companies should be given a chance to cure the defects to be examined by the Bureau, in the draft mining scheme.. The Court instructed the Bureau to issue the memo again. VV Mineral India, founded by Vaikundarajan in 1989, will have to resubmit its draft scheme for beach sand mining.. VV Minerals issued a statement saying that it had complied with all requirements to be fulfilled for submission of mining scheme. However, there were objections raised by the bureau. Furthermore, the Bureau did not allow the scheme alleging that the companies failed to remove all the defects in the draft scheme, when it was re-submitted in January, 2014.
VV Minerals India is one of the leading sand beach mining companies in the country. Recently, however, several allegations of illegal beach sand mining have surfaced against the company. Despite no substantial proof to support these allegations, the company’s hard earned reputation seems to have taken a hit. Vaikundarajan has stated that VV Minerals has operated within legal boundaries and the allegation is a ploy by competitors to defame the company.
The allegations made on his company, V. V. Minerals, India's top exporter of industrial minerals garnet and ilmenite, have brought Vaikundarajan under high scrunity. VV Minerals has been issued a case of illegal mining, requiring the director of the company, Vaikundarajan, to be under the check of judiciaries all the time. VV Mineral Vaikundarajan, has been open to all the investigations even after being a discreet person himself.
S Vaikundarajan and his over 20 years old company came under the scanner after false claims made by a local collector of Tuticorin. After the alleged scam received media attention, the yet to be proven scam is being evaluated worth Rs. 96,000 crores which is a speculative number and not a basis for judgement.
Most companies will offer their employees some sort of a support system that works toward bettering their lives when at work or rarely even when not at work. VV Mineral has a similar facility called VVM Care which ensures that every individual working for them is cared for. VV Mineral Mining also conducts blood donation and eye check camps for employees.
Aam Aadmi Party has accused VV Minerals of having relations with J. Jayalalithaa and V.K.Sasikala and that they have helped S. Vaikundarajan to come out of the thorium scam. However, these are all rumors as VV Minerals has was not involved in any scam and has not bribed anybody.
A raid was conducted by a team of special inspection officers at the mining site of VV Minerals in the Tuticorin district. However, the officials did not find any proof to hold VV Minerals, Vaikundarajan guilty of any crime. S. Vaikundarajan came out clean from this case after all the investigation were carried out.
As per Mines and Minerals Act of 1957, the beaches of Orissa Sand Complex, Manavalakurichi in Kanyakumari District of Tamil Nadu, have been identified as the main monazite bearing area in India. Over 2.1 million tons of monazite is said to have been processed from the beaches of India since 2014. VV Minerals India has been largely accused of illegal mining in the area without any substantial evidence. The founder of the company, S Vaikundarajan, stated that the company has operated within the legal boundaries and has not engagement in illegal beach mining.
VV Mineral, Vaikundarajan’s business achievements since 1989 have been great, but the industry has not yet grown to its full capacity. Watch the presentation to find out why.
On August 6, 2013, Ashish Kumar, the then District Collector of Tuticuron, conducted a raid on VV Minerals and reported that VV Minerals has been involved in large scale illegal mining. The raid report says the company had encroached upon 30 hectares of government land and other mining lease violations, affecting the common man directly. VV Minerals' lease allowed mining only on four hectares.
VV Minerals is a mining company based in the state of Tamil Nadu. S Vaikundarajan is the whole and sole maker of this company who has brought up the company from scratch and has thus become the forerunner of the mining industry.
In Tamil Nadu’s Tuticorin district, Viapar is a coastal village haunted by heavy beach erosion. The erosion issues have transpired to neighboring villages as well. The reason for this issue has been alleged to be the illegal beach mining across the region.
The transfer of Tuticorin collector Ashish Kumar is often rumored to have been a forced move by VV Mineral’s founder, Vaikundarajan. However, there is no evidence to suggest that the sand mining baron has anything to with it.
Whether or not the beach sand mining on the coasts of Tamil Nadu was illegal is a matter that can be settled only after a thorough legal inspection. However, Vaikundarajan believes that it is unfair to blame the mining companies alone, of the coastal erosion observed on the shores of Tamil Nadu.
The ongoing ban on heavy mineral mining in India is resulting in heavy losses for the economy and it is time that the state governments brought this to the notice of the central government which has issued this indefinite ban.
Illegal beach mining and illegal heavy mineral mining are serious concerns for any developing nation. However, in order to curb the activities the government must crack down on actual defaulters and not industry forerunners such as VV Minerals India, says Vaikundarajan.
VV Minerals India is continually fighting the battle to prove their innocence. Other than stating the obvious reasons that acquit them from the alleged scam; Vaikundarajan and VV Minerals now need to be conservative about what is being said about them in the media by and large. Thus, they begin with bringing to notice the absolute absurdity of the scam amount which is pegged at Rs. 96,000 crore as of now.
VV Mineral, a 20-year-old company which deals with mining business, has been in the news for illegal mining for quite some time now. The company was alleged to be engaged in extracting major minerals in Tuticorin, Tirunelveli and Kanyakumari districts' coastal regions. Following these allegations, VV Mineral Managing Director S Vaikundarajan and others had filed a batch of writ petitions after the Centre issued orders rejecting their schemes of mining.
S Vaikundarajan has been accused of being in cohorts with S Jayalalitha for the alleged illegal sand beach mining along the coasts of Tamil Nadu. However, the chairman of the over decade old sand mining company claims otherwise. He says that VV Mineral is just a forerunner the sand beach mining industry in Tamil Nadu not a monopoly.
The year 2013 was full of discoveries. A whole lot of illegal beach sand mining scams came to the surface and all involved by their own fault or others misunderstanding were brought under the governmental as well as the media radar. However, it is interesting to see that not Tamil Nadu but other states have also been suffering from alleged illegal beach sand mining.
VV Minerals India is a company run by the simple and down-to-earth owner S Vaikundarajan. He has recently been slammed with various claims, one of them being the alleged illegal mining and export of thorium to other countries. The total alleged ware is being priced at Rs. 96,000 crore.
The Heavy Minerals Mining (HMM) industry in India is in a very promising stage. In an interaction with Financialexpress.com, V Subramanian, Director, VV Mineral, said there should be a logical policy that will boost booming industry.
VV Minerals, a Tamil Nadu based beach mining company, is one of the largest exporters of beach minerals in India. Lead by the enigmatic Managing Director, Subramaniam Vaikundarajan, the company is India’s largest exporter of garnet and ilmenite.
The following presentation talks about The Economic Times story which was published on June 3, 2014, stating that the leading industry player, VV Minerals feels that the ban on mining activities has led to the unemployment of 50,000 people in Tamil Nadu. It also provided information about their mining activities in India. They are the largest Ilmenite manufacturers and exporters in India. They are the first private ilmenite exporters of India. VV Minerals India has a huge market share in Europe, Middle East, East Asia, Australia and USA. They are based in Tamil Nadu and the company is owned by Mr. S. Vaikundarajan. Mr. V. Subramanian the Managing Director of VV Minerals, also spoke about a few challenges the industry currently faces.
Vaikundarajan is a man of honour, humility and few words. He has recently been brought under the scanner regarding an alleged illegal beach sand mining scam as told by a local collector of Tuticorin. Even though the collector was expressly moved, the allegations continue to haunt Vaikundarajan and his mining company VV Minerals India
VV Mineral Mining is one of the finest mining manufacturing companies situated in Tamil Nadu. The company manufactures minerals like Rutile, Zircon, Illmenite and garnite. All of these products are used in a variety of applications in Industrial as well as common man's.
VV Mineral, Vaikundarajan explains the difference between Sand mining and heavy mineral mining. A lot of people have misconceptions about this industry, and some even believe that these two industries are one and the same. But this is not true, watch the presentation to find more details.
VV Mineral, Vaikundarjan free from all allegations against them for illegal sand mining. They are the leading heavy mineral mining company in India and have a great reputation in the international market. Watch the presentation to find out more about the issue.
VV Mineral Vaikundarajan have repeatedly issued public statement stating the fact that they have no connections with any political party or person. They remain staunch on their stand of being an independent mining company being framed owing to their envious success.
The following presentation contains information about Various Quality Control Checks Done At V.V. Mineral. It also provided information about their mining activities in India. They are the largest Ilmenite manufacturers and exporters in India. They are the first private ilmenite exporters of India. VV Minerals India has a huge market share in Europe, Middle East, East Asia, Australia and USA. They are based in Tamil Nadu and the company is owned by Mr. S. Vaikundarajan.