The Karanataka State Cabinet on Monday decided to dereserve 11,620 sq kms -- from a total reserved area of 26,464 sq kms -- to facilitate grant of mining licenses, according to Information Minister

The controversy raging over the location of the Uranium Corporation of India Limited (UCIL) uranium mine and mill in Nalgonda district, moved from the environmentalists' domain to the political arena

While the rest of the country is up in arms over the high levels of pesticides in their soft drinks, residents of Goa have to contend with mining waste in their drinking water. The state has faced

A round table on the dangers of the proposed uranium project in Nalgonda district held in Hyderabad has unanimously resolved to demand that the State government immediately suspend the mining lease

Provincial officials have given the green light to development of a metals mine in northern British Columbia that has been bitterly opposed by environmentalists, native groups and the state of

Deep red mine wastes from a lead and zinc mine owned by a subsidiary of the Toronto based TVX Gold, Inc., are discoloring the Bay of Ierissos in northeastern Greece. More than half a mile of the bay,

The NWFP forest department is reluctant to allow the directorate of mines and minerals to explore marble and iron deposits in the Malakand protected areas and Dera Ismail Khan regions, according to

It took no less than the President to intervene, but the Jharia coalfield fires that have been raging for the last 90 years, may soon be brought under control. A Rs 5,000-crore package to tackle the

The government has closed the Dodangaslanda graphite mines from yesterday as it could not be run profitably. The production in the mine had ceased about two months ago and only the maintenance work

Tension prevailed at Sankarapuram in Kancheepuram district as locals objected to granite quarrying in the village by a lessee. Official sources said the villagers were taking the lease every year by