A division bench of the Andhra Pradesh high court comprising Chief Justice Satya Brata Sinha and Justice VVS Rao in a recent order directed the state authorities to stop illegal quarrying and lifting

The government will be extending the deadline for mandatory utilisation of low ash coal by power generation companies. The environment ministry notification last year had made the use of coal with

The adivasis in Keonjhar district are beign threatened with displacement ever since the Rio Tinto Orissa Mining Limited (RTOML), in collaboration with RTZ, has been exploring the area for mining

New Caledonian environmentalists said yesterday they were seeking more time to review the environmental impact of a new nickel mine Canada's Inco Ltd is building in the territory's Southern Province.

The Kanara Small Industries Association (KSIA) has welcomed the Karnataka Government's 'bold decision' by which it is already supposed to have granted a 20-year mining lease to Kudremukh Iron Ore Co

A least two villages on the left bank of the Yamuna face the threat of getting flooded this year because of illegal sand mining very near the first marginal bundh. The bundh is the only barrier

Britain and Belgium are ignoring opposition from Russia and kickstarted efforts to halt the trade in "conflict diamonds". Britain is concerned that attempts to stop diamonds from fuelling conflict

The arrival of an open-pit mine extracting gold, copper and zinc sounds like very bad news for the San Lorenzo Valley (Peru).The company behind the mine, Manhattan Minerals of Canada, insists that

Hundreds of local residents of a fishing village blocked Peru's main north-south highway with boulders on Wednesday in protest at environmental fears surrounding the major new Antamina copper and

Additional reserves of quartz, steatite and felspar have been located in Anantpur district of Andhra Pradesh following change in mining plans on the advice of Indian Bureau of Mines. The Indian