Lokayukta police on Wednesday busted a major illegal sand mining racket, arrested three persons and recovered 18 trucks, five tractors, five JCB machines and 30 HP Pumps.

Seven teams comprising 50 officials, raided eight villages in Devanahalli taluk in Bangalore Rural district - Chikkagollahalli, Karahalli, Mayasandra, Tailagiri, Misakanahalli, Byadarahalli and Goodrich.

This publication demonstrates that natural resources can contribute to growth, employment, exports and fiscal revenues in low-income countries, where natural capital constitutes a quarter of total wealth. It highlights the importance of policies encouraging the sustainable management of these resources.

One of the functions of the Standing Committee on Coal and

This analysis uses input-output analysis to examine the economic
contributions of U.S. mining in terms of output, employment, payroll, personal income and payroll taxes. For the purpose of this analysis, the U.S. mining includes the mining of coal, uranium, metal ores, stone quarrying, sand and gravel and other nonmetallic minerals. It excludes oil and natural gas extraction.

GUWAHATI, Jan 16

SALEM: Salem Corporation along with the police has made security arrangements to prevent the illegal mining of magnesite stones from its land allotted for the establishment of a modern compost yard in Chettichavadi near here.

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The public sector coal major had offered 18 abandoned or derelict mines with a total reserve of 1,647 million tonnes from its subsidiaries

Debjoy Sengupta KOLKATA

COAL India (CIL) will finalise its joint venture partners for coal extraction from abandoned mines by March 2009.

The Steel Ministry and the mining industry have finally found a common ground in opposing state-run mineral trading giant MMTC

Mining industry has contributed immensely to the economic development of the State but in its wake has also caused environmental degradation. Since humans have to live within their environment, the process of development should be sustainable so that environmental quality is maintained within safe limits.

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