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The mineral wealth of India is largely confined to the igneous and metamorphic rocks of Peninsular India, while the Great Plains of India and the Himalayan region are almost devoid of the metallic minerals. The states which are rich in the metallic and non-metallic minerals are Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh, Odisha, Bihar, West Bengal, Madhya Pradesh, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Gujarat, Uttarakhand, Andhra Pradesh, and Assam. The states of Uttar Pradesh, Haryana, Punjab, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, and Gangetic West Bengal are, however, poor in mineral resources.