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

Kirthar-one of the first parks in Pakistan designated mainly for ecosystem preservation by United Nations, appears to be facing extinction itself owing to proposed mining exploration in the area.

Parliament on Monday decentralised authority on mining of minerals, devolving to state governments some powers in this regard. The Rajya Sabha approved, as a sequel to the Lok Sabha doing so last

The Gujarat government is contemplating to evolve comprehensive and intergrated plan to expedite the explorations of various minerals like bauxite, limestone, china clay and mica of which huge

The leakage of iron slurry into the Yennehole stream is being seen as a major ecological disaster by environmental groups. The issue quietly took a backseat while other matters caught the imagination

The Lok Sabha passed the Mines and Minerals (Regulation and Development) Amendment Bill, 1999 which delegates more powers to states and simplifies procedures regarding regulation of mines and

In a move to decentralise the mines and minerals sector, the Union Government has decided to amend the Mines and Minerals (Regulations & Development) Act,

The increasingly negative image of the global mining industry had led the World Council for Sustainable Development to commission a worldwide study on the global mining