Mining

Proposed Trump executive order would allow US firms to sell 'conflict minerals'

The Trump administration has prepared a new executive order that would extinguish regulatory controls designed to prevent US companies profiting from and encouraging the spread of “conflict mineral

Publication Date: 
09/02/2017
Guardian (UK)
Tags:
Mining, Minerals, Congo, Conflicts, United States Of America (US), Africa
Mining

The impact of mining on spatial inequality recent evidence from Africa

This paper investigates the relationship between mining and spatial inequality in Africa during 2001-12. The identification strategy is based on a unilateral causation between mining and district inequality. The findings show that when minerals are aggregated, mining increases district inequality.

Publication Date: 
07/02/2017
Tony Addison, Amadou Boly, Anthony Mveyange
The World Bank
Tags:
Minerals, Mining, Africa, GDP, Economic Development
Mining

More amendments to minerals bill

The Department of Mineral Resources is relying on the support of provincial legislatures to be able to introduce 56 new amendments to the Mineral Resources and Petroleum Development Amendment Bill,

Publication Date: 
06/02/2017
Business Day (South Africa)
Tags:
Mining, Minerals, Legislation, South Africa, Africa
Mining

Intergenerational equity case study - Iron-ore mining in Goa

The public trust doctrine makes natural resources a part of the commons, owned equally by all, and legally owned by the state. The resources and opportunities that the present generation have inherited must be available to future generations in perpetuity. In the Goa mining case, the Supreme Court wanted to implement intergenerational equity on the grounds of the exhaustion of the iron-ore reserves as well as the widespread damage to the Goan environment and social fabric.

Publication Date: 
04/02/2017
Rahul Basu
Economic and Political Weekly
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18-21
Tags:
Mining, Iron, Goa, Supreme Court, Public Interest Litigation (PIL), Minerals
Mining

Draft Mines and Minerals Management Bill, 2016

An Act to reform the law on regulation and management of mining activities in the country for long term development of mining sector, building global value chain, ensuring broad-based ownership, achieving economy of scale of mines, enhancing transparency and accountability, and ensure environment-friendly and socially responsible mining.

Publication Date: 
28/12/2016
Government of Bhutan
Tags:
Mining, Minerals, Mining Regulations, Bhutan, Mineral - Based Industry, Mining Reclamation
Mining

Quarries, crushers to stop operations from Monday

The quarry and crusher units will stop operations indefinitely from Monday, said the office bearers of All Kerala Crusher & Quarry Co-Ordination Committee.

Publication Date: 
26/12/2016
Times Of India (Thiruvananthapuram)
Tags:
Kerala, Mining, NGO, Environment Clearance (EC), Supreme Court, Minerals
Mining

Question raised in Lok Sabha on Share of Mining Sector in GDP, 01/12/2016

Question raised in Lok Sabha on Share of Mining Sector in GDP, 01/12/2016. As per the information available with Indian Bureau of Mines (IBM), as on 31.03.2015, there were 3868 mining leases with an area of about 3.40 lakh hectares for minerals (excluding atomic, fuel and minor minerals). The details in this regards are at Annexure I.
The details of production of minerals (coming under the purview of the Mineral Conservation and Development Rules, 1988) during the last three years is at Annexure II.

Publication Date: 
Thursday, December 1, 2016
Lok Sabha
Tags:
Mining, Minerals, GDP, India, Statistics, Parliament
Mining

Adopt eco approach to bauxite mining: AU

Visakhapatnam: Geo-scientists and researchers of Andhra University have studied the environmental implications of open cast bauxite mining in the Agency area and came up with suggestions for eco-fr

Publication Date: 
24/11/2016
Sulogna Mehta
Times of India (Visakhapatnam)
Tags:
Andhra Pradesh, Bauxite, Mining, Aluminium Industry, Minerals, East Godavari, Environmentalists

Toward a national eco-compensation regulation in the People’s Republic of China

The Asian Development Bank and the National Development and Reform Commission of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) undertook a study on eco-compensation regulations development in the country, on which this publication is based.

Publication Date: 
24/11/2016
Asian Development Bank
Tags:
Ecosystems, Environment, Environment Management, Watershed Development, Forests, Grasslands, Wetlands, Marine Ecosystems, Minerals, China, Compensation, GDP, Ecosystem Services
Mining

Court asks mining company to give details of rare minerals

A court-appointed amicus curiae in the suo motu PIL proceedings examining the fairness of procedure in allotting 77 beach sand-mining licences involving extraction of rare atomic minerals worth tho

Publication Date: 
22/11/2016
Times Of India (Chennai)
Tags:
Tamil Nadu, Mining, Mineral - Based Industry, Minerals, Public Interest Litigation (PIL), Tirunelveli (D)

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