A legal change will allow mines to cover up to 50,000 rai, leading to fears that Thailand's forests will be damaged. The Mineral Resources Department (MRD) is to amend the Mining Bill. It will also

Eleven years of wrangling over a giant open-cast mining project west of Cologne was resolved, ending the threat of government crisis in the German state of North Rhine Westphalia. After intervention

The Supreme Court isued notice to the Tamil Nadu Government on a petition by the Tamil Nadu Building Material Manufacturers and Transport Association to seek permission for stone quarries within 500

HAPHAZARD quarrying and mining on the bed of the Beas river and its tributaries is threatening the ecology of the Kullu valley. The river has been changing its course since 1995, causing damage to

The Ministry of Enviornment and Forests has granted permission to mining companies to carry out test-drilling without prior site clearance and public hearing which was so far necessary under the

In what could be termed as the biggest industrial severance, the board of Eastern Coalfields Ltd (ECL) --a Coal India Ltd's (CIL) subsidiary--has approved separation of 68,000 miners and shutting

The world's new aluminiun smelters in Mozambique and Alma will convert electric power that is at present surplus to local requirements into blocks of aluminium which can then be easily exported.

The World Heritage-listed Kakadu National Park is under immediate threat from uranium mining, a World Heritage delegation in Australia will be told this week. The unprecedented mission to Kakadu by

For the first time in Goa's history, the all-powerful mining lobby had to face the brunt of the Government authorities with over half of their non-registered mining machinery being raided and

Noted Indian geoscientists will meet in Calcutta, to reassess the country's vast mineral resources and evolve strategies to locate economic and workable deposits. The scientists, will be meeting on