Rare Minerals Survey Unit brought under Atomic Energy Commission on July 29 and renamed as ‘Raw Materials Division’ (RMD), with Headquarters at New Delhi.

Discovery of uranium deposit at Jaduguda, Singhbhum district, Jharkhand. First borehole drilled by the Associated Drilling Company, London.

Procurement of four drilling rigs and commencement of exploratory drilling departmentally in the Singhbhum district, Jharkhand.
Commencement of Airborne radiometric surveys.
Indigenous fabrication of field instruments for exploration of Atomic Minerals.

Discovery of uranium mineralisation at Umra, Udaipur district, Rajasthan.

Renaming of RMD as ‘Atomic Minerals Division’ (AMD).

Exploratory mining commenced at Bhatin, Singhbhum district, Jharkhand.

Exploratory mining started at Narwapahar, Singhbhum district, Jharkhand.

Fabrication and installation of Mass Spectrometer and Proton Precession Magnetometer at New Delhi.

Evaluation and resource estimation of Jaduguda uranium deposit, Singhbhum district, Jharkhand was completed.

Evaluation and resource estimation of Narwapahar uranium deposit, Singhbhum district, Jharkhand was completed.

Discovery of xenotime occurrence at Kunkuri, Raigarh district, Chattisgarh.

Discovery of uranium deposit at Bodal, Rajnandagaon district, Chattisgarh.

AMD Headquarters shifted from New Delhi to Hyderabad.

Setting up of the Northeastern Circle Office at Shillong, Meghalaya.
Commencement of exploratory mining at Bodal and Jajawal, Chattisgarh.

High-sensitive Airborne gamma ray spectrometric and magnetic surveys started.

Evaluation and resource estimation of Bhatin and Turamdih (East) uranium deposits, Singhbhum district, Jharkhand was completed.
Discovery of spodumene bearing tantaliferous pegmatite at Marlagalla, Mandya district, Karnataka.

Construction of calibration pads at Nagpur, Maharashtra for calibration of gamma ray spectrometry instruments.

Discovery of sandstone-type uranium deposit at Domiasiat, West Khasi Hills district, Meghalaya.

Evaluation and resource estimation of Bodal uranium deposit, Rajnandagaon district, Chhattisgarh was completed.

Discovery of dolostone-hosted uranium mineralisation at Tummalapalle in the western margin of Cuddapah basin, Andhra Pradesh.

Evaluation and resource estimation of Turamdih (West) (Banduhurang) uranium deposit, Singhbhum district, Jharkhand was completed.

Northwestern (presently Western) and South Central Region Offices were set up at Jaipur and Hyderabad respectively.
Evaluation and estimation of heavy mineral resources of Kuttumangalam and Vettumadia sand deposits was completed.
Commencement of AMD’s Publication, Exploration and Research for Atomic Minerals ‘EARFAM’.  

Evaluation and resource estimation of Mohuldih Uranium deposit, Singhbhum district, Jharkhand was completed.
AMD participated in Antarctica Expedition.

Discovery of uranium mineralisation at Lambapur, Nalgonda district, Andhra Pradesh.
National Mineral Award for discovery of the Domiasiat Uranium deposit.

Discovery of beach sand heavy mineral deposit at Kalingapatnam Coast, Srikakulam district, Andhra Pradesh.
Setting up of test recovery plant at Domiasiat for extraction of uranium.

Evaluation and resource estimation of Domiasiat uranium deposit, West Khasi Hills district, Meghalaya was completed.

Discovery of uranium deposit at Wahkyn, West Khasi Hills district, Meghalaya.

Discovery of uranium mineralisation in brecciated limestone at Gogi, Gulbarga district, Karnataka in the Bhima basin.

AMD enters the Golden Jubilee Year.
Atomic Minerals Division renamed as ‘Atomic Minerals Directorate for Exploration and Research’.
National Mineral Award in the field of Geophysics for valuable contribution in instrumentation of air borne geophysical surveys.
S. Narayanaswamy Award of the Geological Society of India, Bangalore for the discovery of uranium mineralisation at Gogi, Gulbarga District, Karnataka.

National Mineral award for discovery of Gogi uranium occurrence, Gulbarga district, Karnataka.

Evaluation and resource estimation of Lambapur-Peddagattu uranium deposit, Nalgonda district, Andhra Pradesh was completed.
Discovery of rich heavy mineral concentration in beach sands at Bramhagiri, Puri district, Orissa.

Office building at Western Region Jaipur was inaugurated by Dr. Anil Kakodkar, Chairman AEC.