Goa to auction six iron ore blocks on April 16

Thursday, 29 January 2026 10:48:00 (GMT+3)   |   Kolkata

The government of the western Indian coastal state of Goa will auction six iron ore blocks on April 16, a government official said on Thursday, January 29.

The official stated that five iron ore blocks were located in the northern part of the state, while the sixth was an iron ore-manganese ore block in the southern part of the state.

The auction documents will be up for sale until March 16 after which the government’s Departments of Mines and Geology (DMG) will hold the action on April 16.

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I graduated from the University of Kolkata with a degree in economics and have three decades of experience in reporting for leading print media publications, covering key manufacturing industries like iron and steel, energy (fossil and renewable), chemicals and petrochemicals and mining sectors (coal, bauxite, iron ore and copper). I work as a correspondent for SteelOrbis reporting on the Indian steel industry covering pricing and trade trends across the value chain, capacity creations and utilizations, corporate developments, government policy frameworks and industry related news.

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