It is a healthy sign that the long suffering residents of Sanvordem have decided to take on the mining lobby. The callous attitude of local mine owners to the environmental depredations they inflict

The recent visit of MPs from Karnataka to the mining areas of the Kudremukh Iron Ore Company Limited (KIOCL) in Chikmagular and their 'hectic lobbying' to get the company's mining lease extended has

At least 43 miners were killed and 10 injured in two separate fatal gas explosions in China, official reports said here on Tuesday. A total of 25 people were confirmed dead and 10 others injured in a

Four miners were trapped in a collapse at a coal mine in the eastern Ukrainian Donetsk region, the emergency situations ministry said on Monday. They were 800 meters underground on Sunday morning

Following the call given by Lawyers' Environmental Action Team (leat) for an independent investigation into alleged killings in 1996 of artisanal miners at Bulyanhulu gold mine in Kahama, the

norway's plan to increase coal mining from Arctic Svalbard has invited the ire of environmentalists. The greens say that coal is the most polluting source of power and can wreak havoc on the

The Karnataka Government is not averse to the Centre's proposal to renew the mining lease of Kudremukh Iron Ore Company Ltd. (KIOCL) for another 20 years provided mining is restricted to the present

The Mining Department has initiated action against the erring officers found involved in granting short-time mining permits to lessees which had perpetuated the illegal mining operations in the

Canadian mining company Manhattan Minerals Corp. said it believes it will discover more gold in its giant Tambogrande project, where it already boasts major copper finds. "Tambogrande is a great,

With the Norwegian energy company, Norsk Hydro, announcing that it is pulling out its joint venture in Orissa to mine bauxite, from which alumina is derived, the curtain appears to be falling on this