The Supreme Court today asked all stakeholders in mining in Haryana to sit together and thrash out a solution in two weeks for allowing mining of minor minerals (used in construction) on 600 hectar
After Bellary, the spotlight on Friday fell on the mining operations in its two adjoining districts of Tumkur and Chitradurga after the Central Empowered Committee (CEC) filed a report showing larg
The Central Empowered Committee (CEC) has recommended to the Supreme Court that it extend the ban on mining in the districts of Tumkur and Chitradurga in Karnataka, as was done in Bellary district.
Detection of illegal iron-ore mining in Karnataka has led to developments that impinge on the sustained supply of the critical input to the steel-making industry.
The Supreme Court-appointed Central Empowered Committee (CEC) conducted inspections in the mining areas bordering Tumkur district at Doddabyaladakere of Hosadurga taluk of Chitradurga district on Tuesday.
The goods train transporting ore has been at the Sasalu railway station in Holalkere taluk for one week now. Companies have stopped mining activities as a last ditch effort to avoid facing a ban in the face of the visit of the Supreme Court-appointed Central Empowered Committee (CEC) to the district to study the impact of mining on the environment.
Bangalore/Chitradurga : Despite clumsy efforts by some mining firms to camouflage the brown hills, laid bare through consistent exploitation, with artificial green cover, the Supreme Court-appointed Central Empowered Committee has discovered a shocking increase in production of ore and total lack of clarity on lease boundaries during its visit to Chitradugra on Sunday.
In a relief to the domestic steel industry, the Supreme Court on Friday allowed state-owned NMDC to operate its two mines for production of one million tonne iron ore per month in Karnataka’s Bellary district.
NMDC The Supreme Court marginally relaxed its tough stand on mining iron ore in Karnataka's Bellary region, allowing only public sector NMDC to operate there. Private operators have been stopped from further mining and export.
Bangalore : While economical losses due to illegal mining in Bellary is pegged at around Rs 16,000 crore, what is more shocking is the ecological shock that the district has been subjected to.
