Coastal sands can contain heavy minerals such as garnet and titanium-bearing minerals. IBM's AP review records resources of garnet and titanium minerals, while its occurrence list places garnet in several coastal districts under older names. This is a geological-resource fact. It is not proof that every AP beach is open to mining or that any particular stretch is currently under extraction.

The coast also supports fishing, settlements, wetlands, ports and tourism. Mineral exploration or mining there requires the applicable permissions and environmental scrutiny. A beach-sand MCQ should separate mineral type from lease status. A port cargo table may show mineral exports, but it does not identify the precise beach where the cargo originated. The map therefore uses a concept comparison instead of implying one continuous permitted mining strip along the Bay of Bengal.

Worked example: Coastal mineral sands may contain valuable heavy minerals, but extraction near beaches has environmental and regulatory limits. A map showing coastline is not a mining lease map. An MCQ can test the class of resource; a claim about active operation needs dated permission and output records. Do not infer that every coastal strip is exploitable because it has sand.

Active recall: What is the difference between a coastal heavy-mineral resource and a legally operating beach-sand mine?