STATE REVIEWS Indian Minerals Yearbook 2013
Andhra Pradesh is the leading producer of apatite, barytes, ball clay, dolomite, garnet, laterite, mica, limestone and vermiculite. The State is the sole producer of asbestos. It accounts for 94% barytes, 78% kyanite, 70% corundum, 61% ball clay, 21% limestone, 41% mica and 33% garnet resources of the country . Andhra Pradesh is endowed with the