India's omission from Fraser survey to shrink foreign funds into mining

Calendar 2019 marked the third straight year in which India did not feature; country may also lose access to state-of -the-art technology due to exclusion from benchmark study

India’s omission from Canada-based Fraser Institute’s annual survey of mining and exploration companies is set to have serious ramifications on the inflow of foreign capital and technology into the domestic mining sector.

In calendar 2019, India was excluded for the third year on the trot from the survey. The survey is a barometer of the overall Mining Attractiveness Index driven by factors like geological attractiveness, effects of government policies on exploration investment, taxation levels and quality of infrastructure. Western Australia is perched on the top of 76 mining jurisdictions across resource rich nations covered in the survey followed by Finland and