The Parliamentary Consultative Committee of the Union Ministry of Steel has decided to ask the Karnataka Government to reconsider its affidavit filed before the Supreme Court regarding the extension

The Centre has asked Karnataka to give its nod to the extension of mining nod to the extension of mining lease in the bio-sensitive Western Ghats to Kuderemukh Iron Ore Company Limited (KIOCL) for

The Centre has decided to extend the mining lease period of KIOCL in the Kudremukh region to 20 years, said Union Minister of Steel Brijkishore Tripathy. The Department has now submitted a revised

The domestic coal mining sector is likely to undergo a major change during the Tenth Plan beginning from April 2002 with further amendments to the Coal Mines Nationalisation Act, restructuring of

The West Bengal government will introduce a mineral policy that seeks to review the state monopoly over mineral exploitation. The policy will be introduced this month. All facilities available under

The alleged move of the Kerala Government to hand over mineral mining to the private sector has come under fire from Titanium Complex Employees Congress (TCEC). TCEC has expressed apprehension that

Attempting to protect Buddhist relics from erosion or any damage due to quarrying in the Langudi, Kayemsa and Udaygiri hillocks, of the Kendrapara district, the state has banned quarrying in these

The US Government's Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has announced that it is to modify a Clinton era rule governing surface mining of gold, copper, zinc and lead on public lands which, the department

A Kenyan court has issued an injunction preventing Canada's Tiomin Resources Incorporation from mining titanium in an area located 12 km away from Kenya's Indian Ocean coastline. Andrew Hayanga, the

The Bush administration is set to abandon Clinton-era environmental restrictions on mining for gold, silver, copper and other metals on federal lands, green groups said yesterday.