PANJIM: After acting against 19 mines, the Indian Bureau of Mines (IBM) is in the process of issuing notices to 25 more mines which have extracted iron ore in excess of the permissible capacity spe

The Indian Bureau of Mines (IBM) has taken action against 25 mines from Goa in terms of the provisions of the Mineral Conservation and Development Rules, 1988 for exceeding the production limits.

PANJIM: Several village groups under the banner of ‘People’s Movement against Regional Plan 2021’ have decided to approach High Court against State Government’s move to grant permissions for constr

PANJIM: Even as environmentalists in Goa desire that iron ore extraction should be kept to the minimum, Goa government’s mineral policy, which is in the draft stage, is moving in diametrically opposite direction by creating framework for attracting foreign capital investment in exploratory works in the mining sector.

Minister questions Mines department's description of excess production as handling of dumps

PANJIM: In what could be a major problem for the mining industry, the Regional Plan 2021 document has mapped only 117 mining leases while there are additional 219 leases, which are bound to be oper

PANJIM: Goa government, had forwarded an application to Ministry of Environment and Forest (MoEF) to renew the deemed mining lease of M/s Shantilal Khushaldas & Bros Pvt Limited, in July 2011, by violating its own moratorium.

PANJIM: State Government in their submission to Bombay High Court at Goa has ruled out that mining industry in the state were extracting ore more than Environment Clearance (EC) limits.

PANJIM: In a major setback to the mining industry, Shah Commission during their first round of investigations is learnt to have found that 90 percent of the mines in the state have some kind of illegalities.

Sources stated that Shah Commission’s senior members Justice R A Mehta and U V Singh reprimanded Chief Wildlife Warden Dr Shashi Kumar and Director of Mines and Geology Arvind Lolienkar on the illegalities, which were allowed to be continue by authorities.

The Goa government on Tuesday filed a reply before the Goa Bench of the Bombay High Court to a Public Interest Litigation petition on illegal mining, claiming that the extraction, which the petitio