Lucky Minerals

Lucky Minerals is based out in Barbil, which is in the Keonjhar district of Orissa. If you’ve ever been to Barbil, you know it’s all about the red dust from the mines. We are located c/o Dr. S. C. Das, so we are in a spot that most locals can find pretty easily. It’s a rugged kind of place to work. Everything around here is connected to the earth and the minerals we pull out of it. Our office is a simple one, nothing fancy because there’s no point in having nice carpets when everyone’s boots are covered in iron ore dust anyway. We spend our days tracking shipments and talking to the drivers who take the trucks across the state. It’s a tough environment, but the people are solid. We don’t have any marketing brochures or big sales pitches. We just deal in minerals and make sure the logistics are handled. The weather is either very dusty or very muddy depending on the rain, but we are used to it by now. Sometimes we sit out on the porch and just watch the hills. It’s a slow-paced life in some ways, but the work itself never really stops because the mines are always going. We aren’t some big corporate entity from the city; we are just local folks working in the mining belt, trying to get the job done and keep things moving. It’s honest, hard work in a dusty town.