Around 105 houses in Ingalgi Tanda on the outskirts of Wadi in Chittapur taluk have been damaged because of quarrying operations by the ACC cement factory

Australian environmentalists yesterday took their concerns about the dangers posed to Kakadu National Park by the Jabiluka uranium mine to a United Nations meeting in Paris.The Jabiluka mine posed a

Companies are preparing to tackle mining's next frontier-mineral rich deposits on the ocean floor. For some miners, the potential bounty seems endless. With so much of the ocean's floor unexplored,

Illegal stone crushing mills and other quarrying activities not only continue to operate under the nose of officials as Navi Mumbai, but are also posing a major hazard to nearby industries storing

South Africa's Minerals and Energy Ministry has budgeted R100-million over the next 15 to 20 years to rehabilitate dozens of abandoned asbestos mines, after nearly a century of unscrupulous mining

The Broken Hill Pty Co Ltd said on Tuesday it would plead not guilty to charges it had violated Canadian fish protection rules at the Ekati diamond mine in the Northwest Territories. BHP, operator

A high human toll : "China produces one-fourth of the world's coal, but accounts for four-fifths of the world's coal-industry fatalities," Wang Shengshen, a mining engineer at the Chinese University

A "chain of custody" should be established for diamonds to satisfy people that they have not bought gems from conflict zones, according to a report, published by Global Witness. The influential

Some 61,000 acres in and around a Tennessee state park have been ruled out of bounds for surface coal mining at the urging of environmentalist groups, but an area farther upstream will be opened to

A threat by Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe to seize the assets of foreign minig companies dealt a further blow to investor confidence on Thursday in a country already suffering political and