Costa Rican President Abel Pacheco signed a decree this week banning open pit mining in a move expected to hit the mining and exploration plans of at least two Canadian firms. Pacheco said the decree

The Supreme Court's order to ban mining within 5 km of the Delhi-Haryana border has led to several changes in the field of mining and related activity in

In a significant decision the Gwalior bench of the MP High Court has given a stay order on the mining that is taking place in the mines of the Bara village (Shankarpur). The court has said that until

After more than a year of painstaking revision and top level deliberation, the South African government is about to alter the balance of power in the country's mining industry. Parliament will begin

Japan's biggest copper producer, Nippon Mining and Metals Co Ltd , said yesterday it had reached an agreement with Chile's state-owned Codelco to set-up a firm to develop biotechnology for mining

Three miners were killed in a coal mine collapse in northern Vietnam, a local gt official said on

The Stone Crusher Council of Himachal Pradesh has expressed resentment over the "discrimination" against Himachalis in the grant of mining lease and alleged that the government was adopting double

The Geological Survey of India (GIC) has located massive high-quality granite stockpile in different parts of Bihar. The GIC has traced 19 commercially viable granite prospects in five districts. At

South Eastern Coalfields Ltd (SECL), a Coal India Ltd subsidiary, has tied up with a British mining machinery manufacturing giant, Joy mining Machinery, for installing continuous miner at its zero

The Maharashtra state government will take action against illegal bauxite mining in a 30 sq. km plot in Satara reserved for windmill developers by the Maharashtra Energy Development