<P> India's proven Nuclear reserves include Uranium, Thorium . </P> <P> In Nalgonda District, the Rajiv Gandhi Tiger Reserve (the only tiger project in Telangana) has been forced to surrender over 3,000 sq. kilometres to uranium mining, following a directive from the Central Ministry of Environment and Forests . </P> <P> In 2007, India was able to extract 229 tonnes of U O from its soil . On 19 July 2011, Indian officials announced that the Tumalapalli mine in Andhra Pradesh state of India could provide more than 170,000 tonnes of uranium, making it as the world's largest uranium mine . Production of the ore is slated to begin in 2012 . </P> <P> The Department of Atomic Energy (DAE) recently discovered that the upcoming mine in Tumalapalli has close to 49,000 tonne of uranium reserves . This could just be a shot in the arm for India's nuclear power aspirations as it is three times the original estimate of the area's deposits . </P>

India has the largest deposit of which mineral