Mining

 Making India's mining sector socially and environmentally viable

While mining continues to exploit mineral-rich areas and impoverish their people, a government panel ignores these costs to focus on fast-tracking private investment in the sector.
By Chandra Bhushan

Publication Date: 
29/04/2007
Chandra Bhushan
Down to Earth
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Water Pollution, River Pollution, Land Pollution, Mining, Mineral-Based Industry, Stone Industry, Minerals, Brahmani, Water Quality, Health Effects, Poverty, Orissa (Odisha)
Industry

 Goa's mining problems

We were standing between a massive mine and a stunning water reservoir. Local activists were explaining to me that this iron ore mine was located in the catchment of the Salaulim water reservoir, the only water source for south Goa. Suddenly, as I started clicking with my camera, we were surrounded by a jeepload of men. They said they were from the mine management and wanted us off the property.

Publication Date: 
14/04/2007
Sunita Narain
Down to Earth
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Water Pollution, Land Pollution, Mining, Mineral-Based Industry, Conflicts, Mining Waste, Goa
Mining

 Bolivia to nationalise mines

Bolivian vice-president Alvaro Garcia recently said that the nationalisation of the country's largest tin smelter, the Vinto tin smelter and refinery, was irreversible. The plant, located in Oruro

Publication Date: 
14/03/2007
Down to Earth
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Mining, Mineral-Based Industry, Economy, Bolivia
Mining

Tata Steels romance with Orissa

Historically, Tata Steel has been exploiting exhaustible mineral resources of Orissa without contributing to the local value-added activities.

Publication Date: 
01/02/2007
Jaya Prakash Pradhan
Institute for Studies in Industrial Development
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Mining, Mineral-Based Industry, Tata Iron and Steel (TISCO), Minerals, India, Orissa (Odisha)
Environment

 Sponge iron industries are killing fields

The sponge iron industry is growing fast and polluting alarmingly. K Radhika in Chhattisgarh and Maureen Nandini Mitra in Jharkhand and Orissa examine the problem

Publication Date: 
14/09/2006
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Environment, Air Pollution, Land Resources, Mining, Mineral-Based Industry, Iron And Steel Industry, Health Effects, Economy, Tribals, Conflicts, Poverty, Gram Sabhas, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Orissa (Odisha), Statistics, Pollution
Mining

Underdevelopment by design?

Based on primary source material, this paper unravels the undermining of development of vital transport infrastructure in Orissa, namely, Paradeep port and a proposed railway line for exploiting the rich mineral resources of the state

Publication Date: 
18/02/2006
Keshab Das
Economic and Political Weekly
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Mining, Mineral-Based Industry, Iron And Steel Industry, Ports, Dredging, Transport, Rail Transport, Public Sector, Politics, Orissa (Odisha), Cuttack (D), Keonjhar (D), Infrastructure Development
Industry

 REHABILITATION AND RESETTLEMENT

Orissa first drafted a comprehensive rehabilitation policy back in 1994, but that was never enacted. Currently, the state draws up R&R policies on industry-specific basis.

Another UNDP/DFID aided draft was presented to the state revenue department on 8 July 2005. After sitting on the draft since last year, the state now wants the 5-member ministerial committee, headed by Industries and Law Minister Biswabhushan Harichandan, to review the draft and submit a report within a month.

Publication Date: 
14/02/2006
Down to Earth
Tags:
Land Ownership, Mineral-Based Industry, Irrigation, Displacement, Rehabilitation, Compensation, Wildlife, Sanctuaries, UNDP, Orissa (Odisha)
Mining

Mining and reclamation, water quality and endangered species: reconciling conflicts and recognizing opportunities

A presentation by Wayne Whitlock to the California Mining Association Annual Conference in May 2005 addressed the impacts of growing water quality and endangered species requirements on the already heavily regulated mining industry. These requirements add increasing complexity and conflicting demands to the permitting, operation and reclamation of the state's mines and quarries.

Publication Date: 
01/09/2005
Wayne M Whitlock
Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman
Tags:
Mining Reclamation, Mining, Mineral-Based Industry, Water Quality, Endangered Species, Conflicts, California
Mining

Organising the unorganized

The Mine Labour Protection Campaign (MLPC) came into being over a decade ago. It works under the aegis of The School of Desert Sciences (SDS) and draw its strength from its networking partner NGO's, CBO's, experts and individuals. For a decade MLPC has been engaged in organizing mineworkers in Rajasthan, who constitute some of the most deprived sections of society.

Publication Date: 
01/01/2005
Bahar Dutt
Mine Labour Protection Campaign
Tags:
Environment, Mineral-Based Industry, Minerals, Workers, Child Labour, Rajasthan, Mining
Mining

Mining environmental activities of APMDC: a cse study

The Andhra Pradesh Mineral Development Corporation (APMDC) was incorporated in the year 1961 as a wholly owned undertaking of the Government of Andhra Pradesh.

Publication Date: 
01/06/2004
Subba Rao
The Andhra Pradesh Mineral Development Corporation Ltd
Tags:
Environment, Mineral-Based Industry, Minerals, India, Andhra Pradesh, Mining

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