Researchers unravel the origins of some of the most precious emeralds known to humankind

January's cyanide spill from a Romanian gold mine, that polluted 2,000km of rivers in Romania, Hungary and Yugoslavia, and killed many thousands of fish, was partly due to inherent faults in the

A U.N. report has blamed technical problems and bad weather for a spill of slurry containing cyanide from a Romanian gold mine in January. The spill from a mine in northwest Romania on January 30

Government today introduced in the Rajya Sabha the Coal Mines (Nationalisation) Amendment Bill, 2000 amidst stiff opposition from Left parties. As soon as mines minister P r Kumaramangalam rose to

A pilot project in Bhubaneswar could solve a major environmental problem by using the waste ore from Sukhinda's chromium mines to manufacture more useful metals.

The fourth National Consultation on Wildlife Conservation and People's livelihood Rights has unanimously called for total ban on mining in the Kudremukh National Park. The national park is from where

Mines and Geology Minsiter V Muniyappa today said quarrying had been banned in one-km outer radius of Bannerghatta National Park and action would be taken against the officials concerned if illegal

Mining laws are allegedly being flouted in Himachal Pradesh, apparently with the connivance of the authorities and without prior permission of the ofrest department.Widespread indiscriminate mining

It is bad enough, people around Farmersburg say, that their beloved Indiana countryside is being gouged by strip mines in a quest for coal. What is worse, they fear, is what the coal company wants

The Atomic Energy Regulatory Board (AERB) said on Thursday that the mining and processing operations being carried out by the Uramium Corporation of India (UCI) at its miners in Jaduguda in Bihar