23 killed in China coal mine blast
A gas explosion killed at least 23 people in a coal mine in northern China and a search is underway for other missing miners, the state-run Xinhua News Agency said Saturday. Xinhua said 33 people
A gas explosion killed at least 23 people in a coal mine in northern China and a search is underway for other missing miners, the state-run Xinhua News Agency said Saturday. Xinhua said 33 people
The Supreme Court last week allowed the appeal of the Andhra Pradesh Mineral Development Corporation against the decision of the full bench of the high court allowing the extension of sub-leases to
The mining industry in UK is facing an increasingly complex operating environment as it bids to attract fresh investment, but a new initiative on mining and sustainable development may help provide a
Mines and Geology Minister V Muniyappa today said that National Environmental Engineering Research Institute (Neeri), which conducted a survey of land in whcihKudremukh Iron Ore Company Limited
The low-sulfur coal coveted by power plants exists in abundance beneath the green ridges near the central Alabama town of Brookwood, but to get it, miners must take the longest elevator ride in the
Hundreds of protesters blocked a major highway in northern Peru this week, alleging local water supplies had been contaminated by toxic mercury from Latin America's largest gold mine Yanacocha, but
At least 12 illegal miners were killed after the roof of an abandoned mine collapsed near Lalmatia under Rajmahal project of Eastern Coalfields Limited (ECL), 60 km from Godda, early this morning.
Continuous and unchecked quarrying in the lower foothills of the Shivaliks has rendered thousands of hectares of agricultural land in more than 600 villages barren during the past over 20 years. In
The Panjim Bench of the Bombay High Court has in an interim order directed that washing of mining trucks should not be carried out near the banks of the Kushavati river and that washing operation
The Panjim Bench of the Bombay High Court has directed the Goa State Pollution Control to visit the site of the dam and the Sonchi valley and all sites nearby pertaining to complaints about pollution
The Haryana Government has decided to auction mines instead of issuing permits for mining to check illegal mining in the State. He also directed them to check wasteful expenditure and maintain
The West Bengal state government has sent an SOS to the Centre, requesting it to immediately fill up the abandoned coal mines with sand to prevent illegal mining operations in the Ranigunj Asansol
At least 35 people are feared trapped after an illegal mine caved in near Asansol (West Bengal). The incident took place around 4 am when nearly two sq. km area caved in near the Badur Open Cast
The Union Coal and Mines Minister, Mr Ram Vilas Paswan, today reiterated Government's commitment to eliminate unsafe mining conditions from the coal mines to make them sage an asked the State
A Division Bench of the Kerala High Court today observed that it was the duty of the State Government, District Collections, Superintendents of Police and police to ensure that the High Court's
By integrating four difficult underground mines - GK (Gauthamkhani)-8, GK-9, GK-10 and GK-11 inclines - the State owned Singareni Collieries Company Ltd has converted them into a single open cast
More than 100 persons who were allegedly trying to extend coal illegally, are feared trapped in a West Bengal mine that crashed on to them. However according to a PTI report they were saved from a
Singareni Colleries Company Ltd (SCCL) has drawn up ambitious plans to take up four new mines this fiscal with a total outlay of Rs 290 crores, according to its Director, Planning and Projects, Mr M.
The United Nations is likely to abandon its controversial and highly publicised "name and shame" campaign in the war against so-called blood diamonds. Rather than issuing further reports on
The Burdwan administration has demolished six illegal coal mines at Kulti, Ranigunji and Januria(West Bengal) with the help of ECL authorities over the past couple of days. The West Bengal government