Bhubaneswar, March 2: The Orissa government has cleared the proposal to lease a new bauxite mine in the southern district of Koraput to National Aluminimum Company Limited (Nalco), a central Navaratna public sector undertaking.
The state government gave the nod to Nalco for the Pattangi mines after a decade. The new mine is estimated to have bauxite reserve of over 70 million tonnes.