An ecological disaster brewed in the belly of the once pristine Western Ghats. The cause: the pipeline carrying iron ore slurry from the Kudermukh Iron Ore Company Limited (KIOCL) to Mangalore

Over 40 companies are keen on mining coal and other minerals in West Bengal. While about 20 private companies have expressed interest in coal projects in seven blocks, including Bagrakote-Gorubathan

Kerala Industries Minister P K Kunjalikutty, who has been criticised for a private company getting a mineral sand mining project, says mineral sand is to this state what oil is to the Middle East.

Despite the fact that the Left Front Government in West Bengal is against privatisation of the public sector coal companies, it has no qualms in proposing development of coal mines jointly with

The tragic accident in which 17 miners lost their lives in the Singareni coal mines in Andhra Pradesh on Monday highlights the poor safety practices followed in the country's mines. The toll would

Adding a new element to the ongoing controversy over ilmenite mining in Thrikkunnapuzha-Arattupuzha area, Kerala, S N Rajan Kartha, Chief General Manager of Cochin Minerals and Rutile Ltd, chief

Revenue Minister K.M.Mani said that the revenue secretary would probe the complaints that illegal sand-mining was rampant in the Periyar river and Thiruvanathapuram district administration in Kerala

In one of the worst mine accidents in Andhra Pradesh, 17 miners were feared dead after flooding of a coal mine in Karimnagar district. A fissure is one of the mines led to a sudden gushing of water

Fourteen Chinese coal miners were killed when a runaway tramcar crashed 300 metres underground, a mine official said. Twelve miners were injured and there were fighting for their lives in

As many as 250 people from Kadungallore panchayat in Ernakulam district in Kerala will participate in the human wall to be organised, as a part of the agitation against the proposed ilmenite mining