ZAWAR GROUP OF MINES is located at a distance of 40 kilometers from the Udaipur district of Rajasthan State in INDIA.

ZAWAR GROUP OF MINES is one of the oldest metal mine in ASIA. Here the ore is extracted from the ancient times by the kings.The estimated age of mine is about 4000 years.Earlier the extraction of ore was done by OPENCAST method of mining.But with the passage of time different metal mining companies were engaged for the extraction of metal.

At present the ore is extracted by the collaboration of two major metal mining companies.

• HINDUSTAN ZINC LIMITED
• VEDANTA

The Annual Production is an average of about 10,000,00 tonnes per annum.

SUBLEVEL method of underground metal mining is used for the extraction of ore.

ZAWAR is a small village named after the goddess ZAWARMATA .The ore deposits are the of Zinc (Zn) [Sphalerite] and Lead (Pb) [Galena] in major and some sorts of Silver (Ag) and Iron (Fe) are also present in ore but the later are considered as waste and are not extracted.The ore deposits are present on the Hills.The deposits are extracted from the four main Hills........

• MOCHIA
• BALARIA
• ZAWARMALA AND BAROI
  

Click on the names of the Hills to know more details of them.