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

The Peruvian government has decided to allow the residents of Tambo

From 4,000 feet above ground in a small airplane, the mountain graveyard of Larry Gibson's ancestors looks like a tiny peninsula of grass rimmed by desert on three sides. For 16 years Gibson has been

The South African government and the mining industry reached a landmark agreement on controversial new legislation that seeks to abolish private ownership of mineral rights, returning them to the

Going by the pace at which the unplanned mining activities around the River Kushawati are going on, it is high time that the Goa Government begins concrete measures to ensure that the flow of the

The Bicholim police have issued a show cause notice to a mining company for diverting ore pit water into the Madai river. According to the information provided by Bicholim Police Inspector, Shamba