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

Some 90 miners are feared dead in northern Tanzania following flash floods that caused pits to collapse, the state-owned Sunday News

A 50-year moratorium on mining in Antarctica notwithstanding expanding scientific activity and tourism pose a serious threat to the continent's fragile ecosystem, which could affect ocean chemistry

Philippines President Fidel Ramos halted the operations of small scale miners after they were found to be using mercury extensively in refining gold. Officials have said that high levels of mercury