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Jharkhand, Orrisa, Chhattisgarh, Karnataka and Tamil Nadu accounts for most of the reserves of which among the following?

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Coal reserves
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Natural Gas reserves
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Metallic minerals
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Petroleum reserves
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The correct option is C Metallic minerals
Jharkhand, Orissa, Chhattisgarh and Madhya Pradesh, parts of Rajasthan, Karnataka and Tamil Nadu account for most of the reserves of metallic minerals. This area, therefore, particularly the north-eastern part of the peninsula, has a very high concentration of heavy metallurgical industries with almost all the steel centres situated here.

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