Dr. Hari Shankar Pandalai
Professor
Department of Earth Sciences
Phone : +91-22-2576 7265
pandalai [at] iitb.ac.in
About Me
Teaching
Academics
Positions
Research
Publications
Work
Membership
About Me
Research Interest
- Ore Geology
- Geostatistics
- Mining Geology
Teaching
- Economic Geology
- Ore Petrology
- Geostatistics (Mining and Petroleum)
- Mining Geology and Mineral Exploration
Member, Editorial Board, Journal of Mathematical Geosciences , Jan 2005 –
Academics
- Ph.D. (Applied Geology) Indian School of Mines (ISM), Dhanbad, India
- DEA (Geostatistics) Centre de Geostatistique, Fontainebleau, Ecole des Mines, Paris, France
- M.Tech. (Applied Geology) Indian School of Mines (ISM), Dhanbad, India
- M.Sc. (Applied Geology) Indian School of Mines (ISM), Dhanbad, India
Positions
- Academic Professor
Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay, Mumbai, India - Associate Professor
Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay, Mumbai, India - Assistant Professor
Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay, Mumbai, India - Lecturer
Indian School of Mines (ISM), Dhanbad, India - Junior Geologist, February 1981 – November 1981
Geological Survey of India - Officer Trainee, August 1979 – February 1980
MECL
Responsible Administrative positions held internally:
- Deputy Director (Finance and External Affairs), IITB
- Head, Centre for Studies in Resources Engineering, IITB (Sept. 2008 – August 2010)
- Head, Department of Earth Sciences, IITB (2003-2006)
- Organizing Chairman, JEE-2007 (2006-2007)
- Chairman Sports, IITB (2002-2004)
- Chairman IITB Hospital Advisory Committee, IITB (2006-2010)
- Member, Senate Nominations Committee (2016-till date)
- Convenor, Executive Council, Institute Recreational Facility (2008-till date)
Research
Linear Geostatistics, 1988-1990
- Problems of estimation of in situ reserves
- Conditional Simulation of Mineral Deposits
Non Linear Geostatistics, 1990 – till date
- Estimation of Recoverable Reserves
- Study of change support problem, mosaic-type RF models Orthogonal residual model
- Application of concepts of recoverable reserves to mine planning
- Geostatistical estimation of recoverable reserves (DST)
Ore Petrology, 1988 – till date
- Study of hydrothermal ore deposits
- Deposits studied Ingaldhal Copper deposit
- Zawarmala Lead-Zinc deposit
- Geochemistry of mineralising fluids in the Hutti gold deposit, Raichur district, Karnataka (DST)
- Transport and deposition of metals in hydrothermal environments
Publications
Papers in Refereed Journals/edited Books
- Pandalai, H.S., Majumder, T., and Chandra, D. (1983) Geochemistry of pyrite and black shales of Amjhore, Rohtas district, Bihar, India. Econ. Geol., v. 78 : 1508-1513.
- Pandalai, H.S., and Basumallick, S. (1983) Packing in clastic sediments – concepts and measures. Sed. Geology, v.39 : 87-93.
- Samsuddin, A.K., Banerjee, K.C., Chandra, D., and Pandalai, H.S. (1984) Studies on the mineral matter of G-III coal seam, Korba, Madhya Pradesh to be utilized as feedstock for the production of fertilizers. Quart. Jour. Min. Metall. Soc. India, v. 56 : 197-201.
- Roy Mahapatra,S.S., Mishra, A.K., Chandra, D., Pandalai, H.S., Ghosh,P.K., and Banerjee, P.K. (1985) Oxidation of pyrite from pyritiferous shale using Thiobacillus ferrooxidans. Ind. Jour. Exptl. Biol., v.23 : 42-47.
- Pandalai, H.S., and Armstrong, M. (1985) A test of two methods of simulation of regionalized variables. Proc. Australas. Inst. Min. Metall., v.290 : 77-79.
- Pandalai, H.S., and Chandra, D. (1986) Textural studies on the ores of the Amjhore pyrite deposit, Rohtas district, Bihar. Jour. Geol. Soc. India, v.27 : 527-530.
- Pandalai, H.S. (1987) Conditional simulation as a basis for the simulation of mining operations for grade control – a case study. Jour. Mines Metals and Fuels, Spl. No. on Surface Mining : 213-218.
- Mukherjee, K.N., Dutta, N.R., Chandra, D., Pandalai, H.S., and Singh, M.P. (1988) A statistical approach to the study of distribution of trace elements and their organic/inorganic affinity in Lower Gondwana coals of India. Coal Geology, v.10 : 99-108.
- Pandalai, H.S., Changkakoti, A., Krouse, H.R., and Gunalan, N. (1991) A study of the relationship between carbon, sulfur and pyritic iron in the Proterozoic Amjhore pyrite deposit, Bihar, India. Econ. Geol., v.86 : 862-869.
- Kannan,S., Patel, K.B., and Pandalai, H.S. (1993) A geostatistical study of alumina content in ores of an Indian iron ore deposit. Jour. Geol. Soc. India, v.41 : 39-50.
- Patel, K.B., Pandalai, H.S., and Subramanyam, A. (1996) Estimation of proportions of lithotypes using auxilliary information. Mathematical Geololgy, v.28 : 765-781.
- Sinha, S.K., Pandalai, H.S., Panchapakesan, V.P., and Krishnamoorty, R.K. (1996) A note on the geology of the Ingaldhal copper deposit, Karnataka with special reference to the distribution of gold in the ores. Indian Journal of Geology, v.68 : 263-275.
- Subramanyam A., and Pandalai, H.S. (1998) Models and techniques in recovery estimation. In Pandalai, H.S., and Saraswati, P.K. (eds) Geological Data Analysis : Statistical Methods. New Delhi, Hindustan Publ. Corp. Ltd., p.
- Sahoo, N.R. and Pandalai, H.S. (1999) Integration of sparse geological information in gold targeting using logistic regression analysis in the Hutti-Maski schist belt, Raichur, Karnataka, India – a case study. Natural Resources Research, v.8, no. 3: 233-350.
- Talluri, J.K., Pandalai, H.S. and Jadhav, G.N. (2000) Fluid chemistry and depositional mechanism of the epigenetic, discordant ores of the Proterozoic, carbonate-hosted, Zawarmala Pb-Zn deposit, Udaipur district, Rajasthan, India. Economic Geology, v. 95 : 1505-1525.
- Sahoo, N.R. and Pandalai, H.S. (2001) Secondary geochemical dispersion in the Precambrian auriferous Hutti-Maski schist belt, Raichur district, Karnataka, India. Part I: Anomalies of As, Sb, Hg and Bi in soil and groundwater. Jour. Geochem. Exploration, v. 71 p. 269-289.
- Sahoo, N.R., Pandalai, H.S. and Subramanyam, A. (2001) Secondary geochemical dispersion in the Precambrian auriferous Hutti-Maski schist belt, Raichur district, Karnataka, India. Part II : Application of factorial design in the analysis of secondary dispersion of As. Jour. Geochem. Exploration, v. 71, p. 291-303.
- Subramanyam A., and Pandalai, H.S. (2001) Characterization of symmetric isofactorial models. Mathematical Geology, v. 33,no.1, p. 103-114.
- Pandalai, H.S., Jadhav, G.N., Mathew, B., Panchapakesan, V., Raju, K.K. and Patil, M.L. (2003) Dissolution channels in quartz and the role of pressure changes in gold and sulfide deposition in the Archean greenstone-hosted Hutti gold deposit, Karnataka, India: Petrography and Fluid inclusion studies. Mineralium Deposita, v.38, p. 597-624.
- Subramanyam A., and Pandalai, H.S. (2004) On the equivalence of the cokriging and kriging systems. Mathematical Geology, v. 36, no. 4, p. 507-523
- Pandalai, H.S., Jadhav, G.N., Mathew, B., Panchapakesan, V., Raju, K.K., Patil, M.L. (2004) Reply to Discussion on “Dissolution channels in quartz and the role of pressure changes in gold and sulfide deposition in the Archean greenstone-hosted Hutti gold deposit, Karnataka, India: Petrography and Fluid inclusion studies. Mineralium Deposita” by Kolb, J., Rogers, A. and Meyer, F.M. Mineralium Deposita, v 39, p. 117-121.
- Chankakoti A., Pandalai, H.S., Gray, J., Ahmad, S. and Perasud, E.R. (2006) Origin of fluorite mineralization and hydrothermal alteration at the Chandidongri deposit, Rajnandgaon district, Central India – Evidence from oxygen and hydrogen isotopes. J. Geol. Soc. India, v. 67, p. 33-40.
- Subramanyam A., Pandalai, H.S. (2008) Data configurations and the cokriging system: simplifications by screen effects. Math. Geosciences, v. 40, p. 425-443.
- Nevin, C.G. and Pandalai, H.S. (2010) Fluid inclusion studies on barite from Hutti Gold Mines, Karnataka,India: Inferences on late-stage hydrothermal fluid. Current Sci. v. 98, no. 7, p. 955-962.
- Nevin, C.G., Malli, V. and Pandalai, H.S. (2010) Modeling the Hutti gold deposit: Challenges and Constraints. In Deb, M. and Goldfarb, R. (eds.) Gold Metallogeny: India. Narosa Publ., New Delhi, p. 168-190.
- Kusuma, K.N., Ramakrishnan, D., Pandalai, H.S. and Kailash G. (2010) Noise-signal index threshold: A new noise-reduction technique for generation of reference spectra and efficient hyperspectral image classification. Geocarto International, v. 25: 7, p. 569 – 580.
- Kusuma, K.N., Ramakrishnan, D and Pandalai, H.S. (2012) Spectral pathways for effective delineation of high grade Bauxites: a case study from the Savitri River Basin,Maharashtra, India using EO-1-Hyperion data. International Journal of Remote Sensing, v. 33 (22), p. 7273–7290.
- Rani, V.R., Pandalai, H.S. (2014) Geomorphology and its implication in urban groundwater environment: case study from Mumbai, India. App. Water Research, DOI 10.10007/s13201-014-0168-8
- Badhe,K.V., and Pandalai, H.S. (2015) Investigations into possible re-equilibration of aqueous fluid inclusions in barite: a study of barite and calcite from the Hutti gold deposit, Karnataka, India. Acta Geologica Sinica v.89 (3), p. 715 – 725.
- Illyas, M. and Pandalai, H.S. (2017) Fluid inclusion studies on quartz associated with massive ores of the Paleoproterozoic carbonate-hosted Pb-Zn deposit at Balaria, Rajasthan: possible evidence for fluid-mixing. Jour. Geol. Soc. India, v.90, pp.577-585
- Badhe, K V., Pandalai, H.S. and Pande K. (2018) 40Ar-39Ar age constraints on timing of a late hydrothermal event in the Hutti greenstone belt, Karnataka, India, submitted to Journal of Asian Earth Sciences (09 Oct 2017).
- Badhe, K.V. and Pandalai, H.S. (2018) Evolution of Hutti-Maski greenstone belt of the Eastern Dharwar Craton- evidence for metamorphic and hydrothermal phases from the Hira-Buddini deposit, Raichur district, Karnataka, India, accepted Journal of Earth System Sciences v. 127:91, p 1-15.
- Badhe K.V. and Pandalai, H.S. (2018) Alteration assemblages and P-T during the second phase of hydrothermal mineralization in the Hutti gold deposit, Raichur district, Karnataka, India, accepted in Journal of Geological Society of India (23 Dec 2017).
Papers in Conference Proceedings
- Laul, V.P., Kumar,V., Pandalai,H.S., and Sen, A.K. (1981) Environment of formation of phosphatic nodules in Jaisalmer basin, W. Rajasthan, India. Proc. 4th Intl. Field Workshop and Seminar on Phosphorites, Udaipur, 1981.
- Pandalai, H.S., and Chandra, D. (1984) Distribution of sulfur in the Bijaigarh Shales at Amjhore and a preliminary geochemial study of the pyrite deposit with special reference to its origin. Proc. of the Symposium on Three Decades of Petrology, Mineralogy and Petrochemistry in India. Spl. Publ. Geol. Surv. India No. 12 : 367-371.
- Dhar, Y.R., Choubey, V.D., and Pandalai, H.S. (1990) Site characteristation for tunnels in jointed rock. Price, D.G. (ed.) Proc. 6th Intl. Congr. of the Intl. Assn. of Engg. Geology, Amsterdam, 6-10 Aug. 1990, A.A. Balkema, Rotterdam : 593-599.
- Panchapakesan, V.P., Pandalai, H.S., Srivastava, R.K., Krishnamurthy, R., and Jadhav, G.N. (1996) A note on fluid inclusions in mesothermal gold deposits of Archean greenstone belts. Naqvi, S.M. (ed.) Proc. National Workshop on Exploration and Exploitation of Gold Resources of India, 2- 4 Dec., 1996, NGRI, Hyderabad : 274-280.
- Pandalai, H.S. (1999) Ore and fluid inclusion petrography of the Hutti gold deposit. Mahadevan,T.M. (ed.) DCS Newsletter v.9, no.1: 12-16.
- Pandalai, H.S., Dona, G., Nevin, C.G. (2010) Nature of silver mineralization in the Balaria Mines, Zawar Pb-Zn deposit, Rajasthan. In Shekahawat M.S. (ed.) Proc. National Semianr on Geology, Genesis, and Resources of Metallic Non-Metallic and Energy Minerals, 29-30 Jan, 2010, Udaipur, p. 9-13.
- Kalimuthu, R., Ramakrishnan, D. and Pandalai, H.S. (2018) Efficacy of hyper-core-logging in uranium exploration: An investigation from the Kaladgi prospect, India, WHISPERS, 23-26 Sept, 2018, Amsterdam, p.
Papers presented in conference, abstract published.
- Ashok Kumar, Pandalai, H.S., Jadhav, G.N. and Panchapakesan, V.P. (1998) A model for the precipitation of gold in the Hutti deposit, Raichur district, Karnataka. Presented at the National Seminar on Conceptual models on the evolution of granite-greenstone belts, granulite terranes and associated mineral deposits, Mysore 4-6 Feb., 1998, Abstracts in Jour. Mineral. Soc. India v.32 : 64.
- Sahoo, N.R., and Pandalai, H.S. (1998) Hydrogeochemical anomalies associated with gold mineralisation in a part of the Hutti-Muski schist belt, Karnataka.In, Patil, M.L. (ed.) Golden Jubilee vol., Hutti Gold Mines Ltd., p. 50-54.
- Pandalai, H.S., Jadhav, G.N. and Patil, M.L. (2006) Fluid inclusion and textural evidence for the role of pressure changes in gold and sulfide deposition in Archean greenstone-hosted deposits. Presented at the Asian Current Research on Fluid Inclusions, Nanjing 26-28 May, 2006, Abstract volume eds. Pei Ni and Zaolin Li : 159-161 .
- Kusuma, K.N., Pandalai, H.S. and Ramakrishnan, D. (2008) The distribution of laterite in Savitri river basin, India – a remote-sensing and GIS-based study. Presented at Tectonics of the Indian Subcontinent, IIT Bombay, 3-6 March, 2008, Abstract volume eds. Biswal, T.K., Pandalai, H.S., Pande, K and Shilpa, P.P., International Assn for Gondwana Research, Conference Series, No. 5, p. 121.
- Pandalai, H.S., Nevin, C.G. and Dona Goswami (2008) Variations in C-O-H-N fluid chemistry in the Proterozoic carbonate-hosted Pb-Zn Zawar group of deposits. Presented at ACROFI-II, IIT Kharagpur, 12-14 Nov 2008. Abstract volume ed. Panigrahi, M.K. Proceedings of the Second meeting of second meeting of Asian Current Research in Fluid Inclusions, IIT Karagpur, p-140-143.
- Nevin, C.G. and Pandalai, H.S. (2008) Structural and fluid inclusion evidence for the genesis of scheelite associated with gold in Hutti deposit, Karnataka, India. Presented at ACROFI-II, IIT Kharagpur, 12-14 Nov 2008. Abstract volume ed. Panigrahi, M.K. Proceedings of the second meeting of Asian Current Research in Fluid Inclusions, IIT Karagpur, p-123-125.
- Pandalai, H.S. and Nevin, C.G. (2008) Modeling the Hutti gold deposit: Challenges and constraints. Presented at “International Field Workshop on Gold Metallogeny in India”, 3-13th Dec, 2008 NGRI, Hyderabad. Pre-workshop volume International Field Workshop on Gold Metallogeny in India”, ed. M.Deb, p. 81-86.
- Pandalai, H.S. (2008) Estimation of global and local grade–tonnage curves and its implications: An example from the Zawarmala deposit, Udaipur district, Rajasthan. Presented at National Seminar on Ore-body modelling, ore-genesis, predictive metallogeny and resources analysis, 16-18 Dec. 2008. Abstract volume ed. Harsh Bhu and N.K.Chauhan, p. 3-9.
- Nevin, C.G. and Pandalai, H.S. (2010) Hydrothermal fluids and vein-types in the gold-bearing Hutti-Maski greenstone belt, Raichur, Karnataka, India. Presented at ACROFI-III and TBG IV, V.S. Sobolev Institute of Geology and Mineralogy, Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, Russia, 16-18 Sept. 2010. Abstact Vol. ed. Sharygin, V.V., p. 150-151.
- Pandalai, H.S. and Nevin, C.G. (2010) Interpretation of the evolution of high- and low-salinity fluid inclusions in shear-zone hosted orogenic gold deposits: A case-study of the Hutti gold deposit, Karnataka, India. Presented at ACROFI-III and TBG IV, V.S. Sobolev Institute of Geology and Mineralogy, Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, Russia, 16-18 Sept. 2010. Abstact Vol. ed. Sharygin, V.V., p. 158-159.
- Shilpa, N and Pandalai, H.S. (2013) Geochemistry of Savitri River Basin, Raigad District, Maharashtra: Implications to Chemical Weathering of Deccan Basalt. Invited Lecture In: Asthana, D., Sarangi, S., Varma, A.K., Singh, S.,Ed. Asthana, D., Sarangi, S., Varma, A.K., Singh, S.,(Eds.) International Conference on Future Challenges in Earth Sciences for Energy & Mineral Resources, ISM Dhanbad, 14-16th Nov., 2013, Abstract Vol., p.259.
- Badhe, K and Pandalai, H.S. (2014) Fluid inclusion sudies on barite and calcite of late hydrothermal barite veins in the Hutti gold mine, Karnataka, India. Presented in ACROFI V, X’ian, Peoples Republic of China, 15th-19th May 2014, Abstract Vol. Ed. Pei Ni, p.
- Saideswara Rao, P and Pandalai, H.S. (2014) Geostatistical Simulation of 3-D Sand-Channel Geometry: A Case-Study, Accepted for presentation at the IAMG Conference, New Delhi, Oct, 2014
- Ilyas and Pandalai, H. S (2016) Variable CO2-CH4-N2-(H2O) fluids in quartz of massive galena-sphalerite veins in carbonate-hosted Zawar Pb-Zn deposit, Rajasthan, India, In Pandalai, H.S. and Jadhav, G.N. (eds.) Extended Abstracts’ Volume AsianCurrent Research On Fluid Inclusions (ACROFI-VI), Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, 25th to 27th November, 2016, p. 97-100.
- Badhe K.V. and Pandalai, H. S. (2016) Fluids with Calcite-Albite-Chlorite-Epidote veins associated with late-stagesulfide-Au mineralization at Hutti, Karanataka, India, In Pandalai, H.S. and Jadhav, G.N. (eds.) Extended Abstracts’ Volume AsianCurrent Research On Fluid Inclusions (ACROFI-VI), Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, 25th to 27th November, 2016, p. 105-108.
- Ilyas, M and Pandalai, H.S. (2018) Fluid inclusions in sphalerite as a key to ore-forming solutions of Zn-Pb-Ag mineralization at Balaria deposit, Zawar, Udaipur, Rajasthan, India. In. (eds.) Extended Abstracts’ Volume AsianCurrent Research On Fluid Inclusions (ACROFI-VII), Chinese Academy of Sciences, 15th to 17th September, 2018, p..
Work
Current Work
- Metal transport and deposition in hydrothermal deposits
- Estimation of recoverable reserves : random function models
Ph.D. Supervised and Awarded
- Kumuda Bandhu Patel (1994) Geostatistical analysis of the problem of recoverable reserve estimation in the Noamundi iron ore deposit, Bihar, India: 183p.
- Pahala Kumar, S. (1996) Evaluation of groundwater potential index of Mandoi river subcatchment area (Goa), using remote sensing and geographic information system techniques: 105 p.
- Nihar Ranjan Sahoo (1998) An analysis of secondary dispersion patterns of selected elements in soil and groundwater of the auriferous Hutti-Maski schist belt, Raichur, Karnataka, India: 101p.
- Jawahar Kumar Talluri (1998) Ore Petrology of the Zawarmala Pb-Zn deposit, Udaipur district, Rajasthan, India: 148p.
- Kusuma, K.N. (2010) Imaging Spectroscopy of Laterite Regoliths of Savitri Basin with Special Reference to Laterite Landform Evolution of the Area: 236p.
- Shilpa V.N. (2011) Geochemistry of Savitri River basin, Raigad District, Maharashtra: Implications to Chemical Weathering of Deccan Basalt: 195p.
- Nevin C.G. (2012) Geochemistry and fluid characteristics of scheelite mineralization associated with gold in the Hutti deposit, Karnataka, India: 316p.
- Badhe, K.V. (2017) Ore Petrology, alteration studies and 40Ar-39Ar geochronology of the Hutti gold deposit, Raichur district, Karnataka, India: 228p.
Ongoing Ph.D work
- Lalit Nararyan: Conditional simulation for recovery estimation and grade control
- Ilyas: Nature and controls of silver mineralization in the Balaria deposit, Udaipur Dist., Rajasthan
Post Doctoral Research Fellow:
Dr Manoj Ozha (Jan 2018 – Dec 2018)
M.Tech Thesis Supervised : 34
Collaborations
- Geological Survey of India (GSI)
- Mineral Exploration Corporation Limited (MECL)
- National Mineral Developemnt Corporation (NMDC)
- Hinduatan Copper Limited (HCL)
- /Hindustan Zinc Limited (HZL)
- Hutti Gold Mines Limited
Membership
- Member, Review Commitee for Centre of Advanced Studies (under Special Assistance Program of UGC) at the Department of Mining Engineering, BHU, Varanasi
- Fellow, Geological Mining and Metallurgical Society of India, Calcutta
- Member, International Association of Mathematical Geology
- Fellow, Geological Society of India, Bangalore
- Fellow, Indian Geological Congress, Roorkee
- Member, Research Advisory Committee, ISM, Dhanbad
- Member, Editorial Board, Journal of Mathematical Geosciences, IAMG, Springer (2005-2018)
- Member Academic Council, ISM Dhanbad
- Member, Board of Studies, ISMU, Dhanbad, Pondicherry University, MS University, Baroda