Odisha Mineral Development Corporation (up 5.00%),
Dvpt Corporation (up 2.57%), Oriental Trimex (up 1.21%), 20 Microns (up 0.86%), NMDC Ltd (up 0.85%), KIOCL (up 0.48%), Aro Granite Industries (up 0.34%), Ashapura Minechem (up 0.34%), Pokarna (up 0.25%) and Coal India (up 0.22%) were among the top gainers.
Madhav Marbles and Granites (-0.59%) and MOIL (-0.55%) were the top losers.
The NSE Nifty50 was up 10.45 points at 18628.5, while the 30-share BSE Sensex was up 6.18 points at 62688.02 at around 9.59am.
Hindalco Industries (up 2.56%), Mahindra & Mahindra (up 1.12%), Tata Steel (up 1.08%), JSW Steel (up 1.06%), Dr Reddys Laboratories (up 1.04%), Bajaj Auto (up 0.9%), Nestle India (up 0.76%), Britannia Industries (up 0.69%), Grasim Industries (up 0.63%) and TATA CONSUMER PRODUCTS (up 0.61%) were the top gainers in the Nifty pack.
On the other hand, HCL Technologies (-0.94%), Tech Mahindra (-0.9%), Bharat Petroleum Corporation (-0.8%), Infosys (-0.71%), Enterprises (-0.62%), Wipro (-0.46%), Tata Consultancy (down 0.38%), Divis Laboratories (down 0.37%), Reliance Industries (down 0.31%) and Bajaj Finance (down 0.29%) all posted losses.