A panel set up by India's top court recommended lifting a ban on iron ore mining in Goa, albeit with conditions that include lowering production.

Miners in the western state, which exported almost all its ore before the Supreme Court order in October 2012, should limit output to 20 million tonnes, the panel said on Wednesday in a report. The quantity is about 40 per cent of what the state produced in the year ended March 31, 2012.