A gas explosion has killed at least 13 coal miners and left another 18 missing in the latest disaster to strike China's accident-plagued mines, state media reported

Despite the cancellation of the tender for sand mining from the rivers of Kathmandu, the smuggling of san continues. Officials at the Kathmandu and Bhaktapur District Development Committee (DDC) say

Deep in the heart of a grassy valley, thousands of labourers are helping build India's nuclear dreams at the country's only uranium mining complex. Three kilometres away from Jaduguda, deformed

A case of illegal mining of stones in villages of Gutra Pahari, Basantpur, Pholidumar has come to light with the initiative of the Forest Department. This illegal mining has caused lakh of rupees

The Punjab and Haryana High Court issued Notice of Motion to the state of Haryana and others for November 17, on a writ petition filed by a Faridabad-based journalist,Subhash Sharma, who had alleged

The European Commission said yesterday it was looking at tightening regulations on metals mines to prevent environmental disasters caused by toxic waste spills. The Commission, the European Union's

The Union Government has agreed to take up the Karnataka's proposal for an eco-impact study of the Bellary-Hospet iron-ore belt with the French environmental organisation - Bureau de Recherches

Fertile fields on Bendigo's outskirts have become a battleground between the region's oldest farming families and mining companies that believe the farmers are sitting on a fortune in gold. State law

Following January's cyanide spill in Romania and new reports on mining disasters from China, environmentalists are calling for governments worldwide to adopt international mining standards. At

More than $800 million will be spent to clean up one of America's most toxic Superfund sites, a defunct copper mine that spews neon-green water.Federal scientists have called the highly acidic water