Vedanta Aluminium Ltd (VAL), which had announced to close down its alumina refinery in Odisha from December 5 for want of bauxite, may go for a temporary shutdown of the facility in a day or two, much before the due date.

With no immediate supply of bauxite in sight, the company said, it will be compelled to shut the refinery for 10-15 days, latest by Friday. “Going by our current stock of bauxite, we will not be in a position to run the refinery after a day or two. Then, we have to take a painful decision to shut our refinery plant for 10-15 days.

The Orissa government which faces the allegation of large-scale irregularities in mining operations, has sparked off yet another controversy by bringing out an “ambiguous” resolution to regulate the sector.

The resolution is viewed by mining experts as a “hurried” move to give an impression to the visiting Shah Commission that it is serious to check illegal mining.

The ongoing enquiry into illegal mining in Odisha by the members of Shah Commission may get an extension due to huge pile of files and some complexity detected in the mining lease papers.

So far, the commission has checked files of only 32 mining leases, out of the list of 142 leases it had submitted to the government. With the remaining period of their visit, which ends on October 11, it is impossible to verify the documents related to rest of the mines.

Conspiracy theories are a handy standby when one wants to avoid the effort of critical thinking.

The state steel and mines department has circulated a new guideline for second and subsequent renewal of iron ore, manganese, chromite and bauxite mines in the state.

While framing the guideline, the department has invoked a 1996 judgement of the Supreme Court which ruled that second and subsequent renewals cannot be claimed by lessees as a matter of right.

Union tribal affairs and panchayati raj minister V Kishore Chandra Deo says his ministry will take a closer look at mineral resource projects, bauxite, iron ore or any other mineral, in areas where

The exports have increased substantially in the last 2-3 years

Trade body Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (Ficci) has urged the Union ministry of commerce and industry to ban bauxite exports fearing closure of alumina refineries for shortage of the key raw material required to produce alumina. “India has a large and developed aluminum industry. But the industry is today at cross roads primarily owing to severe shortage of raw materials, forcing plant closure and jeopardizing employment,” Arnab Kumar Hazra, Director, Ficci wrote to SR Rao, Union Commerce Secretary.

With locals protesting against Hindalco’s move to mine Mali Parbat, the contractor who was working on making the mine operational has left.

Union Tribal Welfare Minister Kishore Chandra Deo has vetoed the move by the AP Government to undertake bauxite mining in the eastern ghats of Visakhapatnam district and brought the curtains down o

Bhubaneswar: Odisha is not in a position to immediately supply bauxite to Vedanta Aluminium Limited (VAL), the State Government said today while the company had sought permission to shut down its r