After a delay of over a year, the Ministry of Environment and Forests (MEF) has given its nod to five mining projects in Rajasthan involving diversion of a total of 1503.42 hectares of forest land.

The Minister of State for Home, Mr. R. Roshan Baig, ruled out the opening of quarries in the Kollegal and adjoining areas in Karnataka as gelatine sticks and other explosives, likely to be used,

The Kullu valley faces serious ecological degradation because of large-scale, unscientific and illegal mining and quarrying. Despite the deployment of field guards to check this by the Department of

Encouraged by the successful application of geotextiles in rehabilitation of mine-spoil areas of Dehra Dun, the Himachal Pollution Control Board has launched a pilot project for the treatment of hill

The cabinet in Thailand approved an Agriculture Ministry proposal yesterday to allow mining on seven plots in a national park and forest reserves for 10 years. In granting its approval, the cabinet

Significant gold deposits have been discovered in the Singhbhum region of Bihar by the Geological Survey of India (GSI), according to the Deputy Director General (operations), eastern region, Mr. R.

Tensions are rising in Venezuela's Amazon rain forests, where Indians and environmentalists are clashing with mining companies and government officials who want to exploit some of the richest gold

The government is on the verge of a further dose of the liberalisation in the mining sector, with Union Minister for Mines Naveen Patnaik clearing a reform package, which includes deletion of

HC asks govt to file statement : The Karnataka High Court has directed the Secretary of Revenue Department and Director of Mines and Geology to file written statements in the respect of a writ

Some 10 environmental groups in Thailand have warned the prime minister to consider carefully an attempt to grant mining companies concessions covering more than 2,000 rai of forest classified as