Mining firms in Goa to pay environment tax
Goa's mining companies will have to pay an environment tax soon as the state government has decided to mobilise funds through such a levy for giving compensation to people who suffer damage on
Goa's mining companies will have to pay an environment tax soon as the state government has decided to mobilise funds through such a levy for giving compensation to people who suffer damage on
The Digvijay Singh Government has given a green signal to the 'B Vijay Kumar Consortium' for diamond exploration work in the
Entrepreneurs interested in setting up alumina plants in Bihar turned back in utter disappointment for want of authoritative data on recoverable reserves of bauxite in
To preserve over-exploited mining areas, the Ministry of Environemnt and Forests (MEF) is formulating guidelines to regulate mining in ecologically fragile
The bane of Kerala rivers : If estimates are reliable, sand-mining is a Rs 20-crore annual business in Kerala, providing livelihood to nearly 25,000 people, financing development projects in at least
Notwithstanding the Centre's decision to carve out Chhattisgarh state, the Madhya Pradesh government is going ahead with the follow up action on tenders invited for the exploration and mining of
Andhra Pradesh will soon invite global bids for developing bauxite and rare black galaxy granite mines. The state government has already invited bids for developing diamond and gold mines, reserves
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
It is slowly becoming evident that the government had done its homework well before going ahead with the five nuclear implosions. It had carefully assessed the implications of the test on the
Indian Aluminium Company Ltd (India) is all set to get another virgin coal block for undertaking a captive coal mining project. While Indal has already been allotted Talabira-I block from the Ib
Prospecting licence was approved by the Ministry of Mines in favour of M/s. Phelps Dodge of the U.S., one of the largest global players in copper exploration, mining and processing, for copper and
In utter defiance of the December 1996 Supreme Court order banning all mining activities in forest areas, contractors are continuing limestone mining in the Doon valley in Uttar Pradesh even though
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
The Centre has rejected the Orissa government's proposal to allow contract mining of chromite ore by Indian Charge Chrome Ltd (ICCL) at
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,
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 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
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
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