Mining

Posco moves SC on Khandadhar mines

With the Orissa government dallying on going to the Supreme Court against the High Court order cancelling recommendation of prospecting licence (PL) for Khadadhar iron ore deposits in favour of Posco, the South Korean steel major has filed a special leave petition (SLP) in the apex court challenging the high court order.

The petition is in two parts.

Publication Date: 
29/10/2010
Business Standard (New Delhi)
Tags:
Orissa (Odisha), POSCO, Mining, Sundargarh (D), Supreme Court, Mines Act 1957
Mining

Posco set to contest HC order in apex court

Dilip Bisoi

Bhubaneswar: Posco-India has decided to challenge the Orissa High Court order on Khandadhar iron ore mines in the Supreme Court. Sources in Posco-India said the company will file a petition in the apex court on October 8 challenging the order.

The Orissa government has also decided to file a special leave petition in the Supreme Court against the high court order.

Publication Date: 
05/10/2010
Financial Express (New Delhi)
Tags:
POSCO, High Court, Supreme Court, Mining, Mines Act 1957, Orissa (Odisha)
Mining

Miners should not dig themselves out of their social responsibility

Kunal Bose / September 28, 2010, 0:56 IST

Democracy allows a hundred ideas on a given subject to bloom before a policy is finally made. That the draft mining bill will provoke miners, stand alone ones and those who dig earth to remove minerals for captive use, to react is expected. Perhaps that is what the government wants.

Publication Date: 
28/09/2010
Business Standard (New Delhi)
Tags:
Mining, Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), Mines Act 1957, Legislation, Mining Regulations, Rehabilitation, Displacement, Land Acquisition
Mining

Of profit-sharing and mining

JAIDEEP MISHRA

THERE

Publication Date: 
14/09/2010
Economic Times (New Delhi)
Tags:
Mines Act 1957, Minerals, Mining, India, Mineral-Based Industry, Iron
Mining

Amending the Mining Act

Profit sharing by mining firms might open an window of innovative accounting, says the author.

Publication Date: 
01/09/2010
Sugato Hazra
Resource Digest
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Tags:
Mining, Legislation, India, Mineral - Based Industry, Private Sector, Public Sector, Tata Iron and Steel (TISCO), Displacement, Mines Act 1957, Benefit Sharing
Mining

Environmental guidance manual: mines

The purpose of developing sector specific guidance manual for Mining projects is to provide clear and concise information to all the stakeholders i.e. project proponent, environmental consultant, Rajasthan State Pollution Control Board officials and the public to have a better understanding on the relevant environmental aspects in the initial stage itself.

Publication Date: 
31/08/2010
Administrative Staff College of India
Tags:
Mining, Environment, State Pollution Control Board (SPCB), Minerals, Environment Impact Assessment (EIA), Environment Management, Air Pollution, Hazardous Waste, Mines Act 1957, Water Act 1974, Rajasthan
Mining

State government to take steps to curb illegal mining

Vijesh Kamath, Bangalore, August 19, DH News Service:

Nearly a month after banning export of iron-ore, the State government has now begun to crack down on mining stockyards to curb illegal mining.

Henceforth, permits for establishing mining stockyards will be granted only to mining contractors and owners of ore processing units.

Traders, middlemen and other business persons have been b

Publication Date: 
20/08/2010
Deccan Herald (Bangalore)
Tags:
Illegal Trade, Mines Act 1957, Minerals
Mining

Top court: Regulate mining as per law

As mining is increasingly becoming the most controversial issue in the country, the Supreme Court in order to stem the resentment among people against the mega projects, has asked the Union and state governments to follow various Central and state legislations on acquisition of land and regulating mining strictly.

Publication Date: 
22/07/2010
Asian Age (New Delhi)
Tags:
Forests, Land Acquisition, Land Act 1894, Mining, Minerals, Mining Regulations, Mines Act 1957, Forest Act 1980, Supreme Court, Asian Age (New Delhi)
Mining

Orissa in a fix over Posco mines, had promised iron ore to 49 projects

Dilip Bisoi

Bhubaneswar: The Orissa High Court

Publication Date: 
21/07/2010
Financial Express (New Delhi)
Tags:
Mining, Mineral-Based Industry, POSCO, Mines Act 1957, Industry, Iron And Steel Industry, High Court, Orissa (Odisha), Financial Express (New Delhi)
Mining

Panel calls for probe on illegal mining

The Ad Hoc Committee (ADC) has recommended that the Central Empowered Committee (CEC) should conduct a fact finding study of the illegal mining activities, if any, and also investigate and study the modalities of the illegal mechanism.

Publication Date: 
21/07/2010
Herald (Panjim)
Tags:
Mining, Mines Act 1957, Illegal Trade, Goa, Herald (Panjim), Central Empowered Committee (CEC)

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