More than 30 Ukrainian coalminers trapped below ground after a methane gas explosion were found dead on Sunday, raising the final death toll at the pit in Donetsk to 63. It was one of Ukraine's worst

Trading of mica in Bihar has been severely afflicted by the strict enforcement of the Forest Conservation Act, passed in 1980, and the collapse of the Soviet Union, its major consumer. The situation

At least 12 people are feared to have been killed with the roofs of two abandoned mines at Nirsa and Bermo caving in yesterday afternoon. The mines belonged to Eastern Coalfields Limited (ECL) and

A Mexican court in the northern city of Hermosillo has ordered Mexicana de Cobre, a subsidiary of Grupo Mexico, the country's largest mining group, to return 1,500 hectares of expropriated communal

The coal ministry is planning to put up a proposal by which captive coal mines would be accorded infrastructure status. The Minister of state for coal, Mr Dilip Ray, said that the ministry is

Foreign mining companies have scaled down their operations in the Philippines because of uncertainties over a new tribal law and mounting environmental concerns, industry leaders said last

A number of stone-crushing units in Krishna and Guntur districts of Andhra Pradesh are facing closure for failing to install pollution control equipment by March 31 this year, the deadline set by the

Either the National Mineral Development Corporation, or the Mumbai-based cartel of diamond merchants, Vishal Diamonds, would set up a joint venture company with the Madhya Pradesh State Mining

A fresh corporate war is brewing over the vast stretches of chrome-rich sukinda valley in Orissa. In a quite move, Orissa-based India Charge Chrome Ltd. (ICCL) is on the verge of cornering chrome

Water pollution from hard rock mining has become a global problem - made worse by countries relaxing their mining laws to encourage investment by multinational corporations. Mining operations in