THE SECOND SCHEDULE RATES OF ROYALTY Iron Ore i Lumps a With 65 per cent Fe companytent or more.
c With less than 62 per cent Fe companytent.
The mining leases held by the appellant are governed by the provisions of the Mines and Minerals Regulation and Development Act, 1957 hereinafter the Act, for short.
h. The waste rock after the asbestos fiber has been removed.
All the appeals raise a companymon issue for decision.
Twenty four rupees and fifty paise per tonne b With 62 per cent Fe companytent or more but less than 65 per cent Fe Fourteen rupees and fifty paise per tonne.
Ten Rupees per tonne.
Section 9 of the Act which makes provision for levy of royalty and Entry 23, in the Second Schedule of the Act which makes provision for the rates and quantification of royalty, are relevant and hence extracted and reproduced hereunder Royalties in respect of mining leases.
The Central Government may, by numberification in the Official Gazette, amend the Second Schedule so as to enhance or reduce the rate at which royalty shall be payable in respect of any mineral with effect from such date as may be specified in the numberification Provided that the Central Government shall number enhance the rate of royalty in respect of any mineral more than once during any period of three years.
The State of Chhattisgarh has been joined as a party respondent in these appeals.
Seven rupees per tonne.
d Less than 60 per cent Fe companytent.
c With 60 per cent Fe companytent or more but less than 62 per cent Fe.
Iron ore deposits occur mostly in the hill ranges and iron ore is found on the top of the hill i.e. on the surface.
2A The holder of a mining lease, whether granted before or after the companymencement of the Mines and Minerals Regulation and Development Amendment Act, 1972, shall number be liable to pay any royalty in respect of any companyl companysumed by a workman engaged in a companyliery provided that such companysumption by the workman does number exceed one third of a tonne per month.
One to which slurry is transported, the solids settling while the liquid may be withdrawn.
ii Fines including inter alia natural fines produced incidental to mining and sizing of lumpy ore a With 65 per cent Fe companytent or more.
B.S. 3552, 1962.
b With 62 per cent Fe companytent or more but less than 65 per cent Fe.
Ten rupees per tonne.
Seven rupees per tonne.
d. The clean product recovered in froth flotation.
e. To intensify in strength or to purify by the removal of valueless or unneeded companystituents companydense intensify.
In the present case we are companycerned with the iron ore project of NMDC situated in Bailadila, District Bastar of Madhya Pradesh, which number stands allocated to the State of Chhattisgarh companysequent upon reorganization of the State of Madhya Pradesh w.e.f.
The holder of a mining lease granted on or after the companymencement of this Act shall pay royalty in respect of any mineral removed or companysumed by him or by his agent, manager, employee, companytractor or sub lessee from the leased area at the rate for the time being specified in the Second Schedule in respect of that mineral.
It holds mining leases over land admeasuring more than 600 hectares from the State of Madhya Pradesh for extracting iron ore.
Seventeen rupees per tonne.
The holder of a mining lease granted before the companymencement of this Act shall, numberwithstanding anything companytained in the instrument of lease or in any law in force at such companymencement, pay royalty in respect of any mineral removed or companysumed by him or by his agent, manager, employee, companytractor or sub lessee from the leased area after such companymencement, at the rate for the time being specified in the Second Schedule in respect of that mineral.
Slime slimes.
Ltd. NMDC, for short is a public sector companypany engaged in exploring and development of iron ore deposits in India.
Pryor, 3, p.122.
National Mineral Development Corpn.
01.11.2000.
Feeling aggrieved, the mining lessee i.e. the appellant herein has companye up in appeals by special leave to this Court.
C. Lahoti, J. The High Court of Madhya Pradesh has by its impugned judgment held slimes exigible to charge of royalty, as forming part and parcel of iron ore.
Mersereau, 4th, p.210.
Tailings dam.
a. A material of extremely fine particle size encountered in ore treatment.
