More than 16 years after the Supreme Court set free bonded labourers of Surajkund stone quarries and directed the government to ensure minimum wages and housing for them as well, they are still

Around 50,000 Kol tribals of Shankargarh, engaged in quarrying of Silica sand and stones, have threatened to capture the land of the erstwhile Raja of Shankargarh and start working from January 1,

Phelps Dodge, the world's number two copper miner, has won a lawsuit in Chile which could have cost the US company up to $600m if it had lost. The dispute related to 30 hectares of the company's

Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold Inc. said it signed an agreement it hopes will improve strained relations with indigenous tribes living near the the company's vast mining operations in Indonesia's

Although coal-mining fatalities have decreased in India this year, government officials are still concerned that more should be done to curb mining accidents. Some 76 fatalities occurred between

Filling open-cast mines in East Germany is the most spectacular project to revive the town of Dessau, south of

The Orissa State Mining Workers Federation on Monday asked the State Government to impose a ban on trading of chromite ore from the mines in Sukinda valley leased out to various

Officials of the UN Interim Administration in Kosovo (UNMIK) have signed an agreement with an international mining consortium to bring the Trepca mining and metallurgical complex back to

The Haryana Government has turned a blind eye to the plundering of its mineral wealth on a massive scale, ostensibly under political patronage, in Faridabad and Gurgaon districts. The illegal mining

World Bank officials took a Hippocratic oath when they agreed in 1997 to led India more than a half-billion dollars to mine coal. PSU became 'productive and profitable' with loan but left most