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Hindustan Zinc Limited (HZL) is an Indian integrated mining and resources producer of zinc, lead, silver and cadmium.It is a subsidiary of Vedanta Limited. [4] Earlier it was a Central Public Sector Undertaking, sold by Government of India to Vedanta Limited when Atal Bihari Vajpayee and Bharatiya Janta Party Government was in power in the year 2003.
Zinc oxide is widely used as a white pigment in paints and as a catalyst in the manufacture of rubber to disperse heat. Zinc oxide is used to protect rubber polymers and plastics from ultraviolet radiation (UV). [126] The semiconductor properties of zinc oxide make it useful in varistors and photocopying products. [145]
Zinc was extracted in India as early as in the 4th to 3rd century BCE. Zinc production may have begun in India, and ancient northwestern India is the earliest known civilization that produced zinc on an industrial scale. [44] The distillation technique was developed around 1200 CE at Zawar in Rajasthan. [34]
This is a list of prices of chemical elements. Listed here are mainly average market prices for bulk trade of commodities. Data on elements' abundance in Earth's crust is added for comparison. As of 2020, the most expensive non-synthetic element by both mass and volume is rhodium.
The first production of zinc in quantity seems to have been in India starting from 12th century and later in China from 16th century. [11] In India, zinc was produced at Zawar from the 12th to the 18th centuries, although some zinc artifacts appear to have been made during classical antiquity in Europe. [12]
HZL is the country's largest integrated producer of zinc and as of 2023, the company an 80% market share in primary zinc production in India. [90] [91] As of 2023, HZL is also the second largest integrated zinc producer in the world. [92] Rampura Agucha, owned by HZL, is the world's largest underground zinc mine as of 2022. [93] India's 5 ...
Vedanta Resources Limited is a diversified mining company headquartered in London, United Kingdom.It is the largest mining and non-ferrous metals company in India and has mining operations in Australia and Zambia [4] and oil and gas operations in three countries.
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