The Journey – Gujarat Mineral Development Corporation Ltd

Visitors: 80819
Last Updated Date: 23-03-2023

A journey of expanding operations

GMDC was incorporated on 15th May, 1963 to develop major mineral resources in the State of Gujarat. From a single product company at inception, today, 58 years later we are a multi-product company supplying a variety of high utility minerals, as well as power that we produce from Lignite, Wind and Solar sources.

2015

Lignite Mine opened at Umarsar, Kutch / GMDC becomes the largest merchant seller of lignite in the country.
GMDC has set up a 1.5 million TPA Pyrite Removal Plant at Bhavnagar Lignite Project on Built on Operate (BOO) basis for removal of Pyrite nodules.

2011

The GMDC also embarked on a sophisticated Enterprise Resource Planning system in 2011 covering the whole ambit of mining operations throughout Gujarat to achieve efficiency and complete the tasks in time with the minimum resources required.
5 MW Solar Power Project of GMDC was installed on the reclaimed mined out land of Panandhro Lignite Mine in Kutch which is first of its kind in the country, experiment to utilize the reclaimed land of mined out area

2010

GMDC implemented ISO-9001
GMDC is in process to obtain for all the mines in operation with Occupational Health and Safety systems (OHS-18000) along with Environmental Management systems (ISO-14000)

2009