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

Respiratory ailments, soil and water contamination, silting of water bodies, thick blanket of dust with the smell of sulphur dioxide, withering of coconut trees and changes in land use pattern. This

Two coal miners were killed and 22 were missing after water from a disused mine in Guangxi province (China) flooded another shaft where 172 people were working, state media reported yesterday.

The Karnataka Government proposes to make a study of the environment impact in the entire region of the Bellary-Hospet iron ore

After four years of negotiations, representatives of more than 100 countries have agreed on rules to govern the commercial extraction of a range of minerals from the international seabed. The rules,

World Bank officials took a Hippocratic oath when they agreed in 1997 to lend India more than half-billion dollars to mine coal.Above all, bank officials swore to themselves, the project would do no

A conservation row is brewing over an application by a mining company to mine coal on the border of the renowned Umfolozi Game Reserve in northern KwaZulu Natal, South Africa.According to