Nabarangpur District has a treasure of many ores like iron, chlorite, mica quartz and so on. The Heeraput village near Umerkote contains a fair deposit of haematite and limonite, each of which possesses about 60% iron. Similarly the Tentulikhunti area of Nabarangpur has fairly large deposit of granites. The north of Nabarangpur district up to the boarder of Kalahandi has rock beds covering layered of coarse white quartz.