<h1>Critical mineral security: Andhra Pradesh opens coastline to build a domestic rare earth and titanium value chain.</h1> Andhra Pradesh seeks to open its coastline to large-scale beach sand mining to build an integrated domestic value chain for titanium minerals and rare earths. APMDC has identified and secured approvals for multiple ilmenite, rutile, zircon and monazite deposits and plans extraction, separation, refining and downstream manufacturing near ports and industrial corridors to reduce import dependence and supply-chain vulnerability.