VV Minerals India is vastly known for extracting and exporting garnet and ilmenite to over 20 countries. The company had admitted that it could no separate thorium from monazite to the lack of technology. This was also confirmed later by Atomic Energy Regulatory Board (AERB).

Despite all these confirmations, former principal scientist at Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute in Kochi raised his concerns by stating, “Indian Rare Earth Ltd (IREL), Manavalakurichi, uses the sand from the same area and produces thorium, so what happens to the monazite in the VV mines?