Indonesian police carrying out an environmental crackdown in the main tin producing region of Bangka island, should stop targeting small-scale miners as it is hindering domestic smelters' supplies,

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.

Karnataka-based iron and steel makers say that it might prove difficult for NMDC to fulfil Supreme Court's order of one million tonnes per month supply to the industry.

Britain has been urged by a major business organisation to exempt high energy users such as Tata Steel from a carbon levy, which, it is argued, could cripple many industries and lead to carbon leak

The signing of a $1.5bn agreement between African Minerals and China’s state-owned Shandong Iron & Steel Group should end some of the scepticism about the deal and broader reservations over the

After Bellary, Tumkur district has emerged as a hotbed of rampant illegal mining activities in the State.

The Supreme Court on Friday suspended all mining operations in the Bellary district of Karnataka with immediate effect, a day after state Lokayukta Santosh Hegde submitted a damning report that has forced the state chief minister BS Yeddyurappa to resign.

Iron and steel manufacturers in South India, who are facing severe shortage of raw materials, will be ‘totally devastated’ with a complete halt on mining, said industry sources.

The Supreme Court on Friday dealt a blow to illegal mining by ordering suspension of all mining activities in Karnataka’s Bellary district with immediate effect.

The landscape of illegal mining in Karnataka that emerges from the final report on illegal mining submitted by Lokayukta N. Santosh Hegde is vast and murky.