90 feared killed as Tanzanian mine floods
Some 90 miners are feared dead in northern Tanzania following flash floods that caused pits to collapse, the state-owned Sunday News
Some 90 miners are feared dead in northern Tanzania following flash floods that caused pits to collapse, the state-owned Sunday News
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
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
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
The Attappadi mountain ranges in Northern Kerala, known for their unique flora and fauna, have started yielding gold and consequently triggered a mad rush among prospectors. "There is a high deposit
The Karnataka High Court on Tuesday refused to grant an interim stay on quarrying at Kembhootana Halli of Uttarahalli Hobli, Bangalore South
John Prescott, the deputy prime minister threw another lifeline to the deep coal mine industry in Uk, by expanding the government's energy review to include the controls of open cast
The Environment and Energy Ministry of Costa Rica temporarily halted mining for 90 days at three sites in the country after inspectors of its regulatory body, the National environmental Technical
Mitsubishi Corp., the giant Japanese conglomerate has proposed building one of the world's largest salt production facilities at Mexico in a venture with the Mexican government. The proposed
Gold mines in northen Greece brought wealth to the ancient Macedonian kingdom of Alexander the Great. But plans by Canada's TVX Gold to introduce modern mining and extraction processes to the
The units engaged in stone curshing business in Haryana are passing through a very hard time these days primarily because of brunt of taxation under the Haryana General Sales Tax Act, 1973 and the
Residents of Collem have protested over the heavy pollution caused due to dumping of mine ore close to residential houses. The residents pointed out that due to the deposition of mine ore which is