Domiasiat
25° 30' N 91° 30' E
Adequate resources of uranium have been identified by the Uranium Corporation of India Ltd. to meet the requirements of India's currently envisaged nuclear power program. There are four promising uranium mining areas in India: the Singhbhum district (Bihar), West Khasi hills (Meghalaya), the Bhima Basin area (Gulbarga district of Karnataka), and the Yellapur- Peddagattu area of Nalgonda district (Andhra Pradesh). The large sand stone type deposit discovered in cretaceous tertiary sedimentary basin at Domiasiat in the State of Meghalaya has been planned for the next commercial exploitation.
Some time prior to 1991 the Atomic Mineral Division of the Department of Atomic Energy discovered uranium in the West Khasi Hills in Meghalaya state. Initial prospecting and sampling operations involved the extraction of hundreds of tons of ore. The deposit has been characterized as the largest, richest, near-surface and low- cost sandstone-type uranium deposit discovered in India. The ores are spread over a 10-square-kilometer area in deposits varying from eight to 47 meters from the surface. The Uranium Corporation of India Ltd. (UCIL) has proposed to acquire 10 square kilometers of land in the uranium deposit areas of Domiasiat in Hima Langrin of the West Khasi Hills (in the northeast of India). About 30,000 people are likely to be displaced as a result.
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