The Centre has rejected the Orissa government's proposal to allow contract mining of chromite ore by Indian Charge Chrome Ltd (ICCL) at

A strip-mining operation is under way in Blair, West Virginia, in which mountain tops are blasted off and the rock and earth are dumped into the valleys. Mountaintop removal is hardly new to the

The two-month-old United Parliamentary Forum (UPF) Government of Meghalaya is yet to take a stand on the controversial issue of commercial mining of uranium by the Uranium Corporation of India

bailing out: Reliance Petroproducts (RP), a Reliance Group company, will help fish out Indian Polyfibres Ltd. (IPL), from troubled waters, according to an alliance between the two companies. IPL

The Madhya Pradesh government's rejection of the conditional offers made by De Beers and RTZ-CRA for undertaking exploitation and exploitation of diamond reserves in the state has brought the

For seven years, dispossessed farmers have been fighting the Mexican government and the biggest mininig company in Mexico for a treasure nestling in the foot hills of the Sierra Madre. Now the

The Bombay High Court has passed an interim stay order preventing Indal, a prominent aluminium manufacturing company, from carrying out bauxite mining in the Inderganj area of Kolhapur district,

The Madhya Pradesh government on Monday announced its new granite policy, allowing the mine lease holders to sell more raw granite every year. Making a suo moto statement in the assembly state

Large-scale iron ore mining operations in Goa have resulted in "wide-spread environmental degradation," leading to severe air pollution in the mining villages and road corridors in the state,

The "river of life" Periyar is dying a slow death. With over 437,000 tonnes of its sand being mined and sold every day, Periyar has sunk by 12 feet during the last seven years. Today, the river bed