Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of News Item titled "2 killed in blast at illegal cracker unit in Thanjavur appearing in The Hindu dated 19.05.2025". The application is registered suo-motu on the basis of the news item titled 2 killed in blast at illegal cracker unit …
The Orissa government is all set to recommend the Khandadhar iron ore mines to South Korean steel major Posco. Its recommendation letter is likely to be dispatched some time in the first week of next month as all formalities related to the hand-over have been carried out. There were as …
India announced a new National Mineral Policy (for non-coal and non-fuel minerals) in early April, after two-and-a-half years of wrangling between mineral-rich states and the central government, between steel-makers, iron ore miners and exporters. The objective of this policy, nmp -2008, is clear: it will promote privately-owned, large-scale, mechanized mines
North Eastern Coalfields Ltd (NECL), an arm of Coal India Ltd, will start two opencast mines in Assam to boost its production by over 27% to 1.4 million by the end of 2009, with a total investment of over Rs 100 crore Currently NECL produces about 1.1 million tonne of …
Recycling is an effective way of creating treasure out of waste at a fraction of the energy used in producing primary metals from minerals. Now that both ferrous and non-ferrous metals are ruling at historically high prices, the outlook for scrap recovery and metal production through the secondary route of …
Ghana's Minerals Commission has come up with a regulatory framework that will ensure that mining companies operating in the country cough up more to the government coffers. The new legislation will require the companies to pay an exact percentage of their total revenue, which is yet to be calculated, as …
About 1,000 miners have been withdrawn from an underground mine of Western Coalfields Ltd (WCL) in Maharashtra after a carbon monoxide leak. WCL shut down two pits of Ballarpur collieries after traces of carbon monoxide were noticed spreading steadily through the tunnels on Tuesday. The gas leak was first noticed …
Junior miner Vulcan Resources Ltd has approved the initial development of its 800,000 tonnes per annum Kylylahti copper-cobalt-nickel mine and concentrator in eastern Finland. The Perth-headquartered company's definitive feasibility study (DFS) has confirmed the economic and technical viability of the $US170 million ($A184.5 million) project, which is estimated to have …
Chinese Co may resume work on Thar coal project RAMZAN CHANDIO KARACHI - The Mines and Mineral Department of the Sindh government has made a comprehensive plan to utilise the natural resources of province while three large granite factories would be set up in Nagarparkar of Tharparker and 30 percent …
Xstrata Faces Australian Law Suit On Lead Levels AUSTRALIA: April 14, 2008 CANBERRA - Mining company Xstrata Plc is set to face legal action over its Mount Isa operations, which produce about 4 percent of the world's lead, from a young girl suffering lead poisoning, the girl's lawyer said on …
Mining giant Rio Tinto has published a report of its efforts to reduce the company's environmental impact in 2007. The report focuses on emissions to air and water, waste management, land stewardship and climate change. The report and a summary of Rio Tinto's CSR strategy can be found on the …
LONDON-based Vedanta Resources is planning to invest $15 billion in the mining sector in India and Africa by 2010. Vedanta Resources executive chairman Anil Agrawal told ET that the company is planning to become the largest producer of metals in the world. "We are targeting at achieving the 1 million …
M/s Vedanta Aluminium Limited has established a refinery plant of capacity to produce 1 MTPA aluminia. The plant comprises of two alumina production streams of capacity 0.5 MTPA each and three steam generation plants. The steam generation plants not only cater the requirement of steam for production of Alumina from …
Eike Batista, a Brazilian mining entrepreneur, says he owes the success of his business, built from scratch and now worth billions, to following the basic rules of mining exploration that he learned as a young man digging for gold. "In mining, you go to some crazy place, you set up …
The Chief Ministers of five mineral-based States on Saturday demanded a rethink on the New Mineral Policy while charging that the document, in its current form, favoured foreign direct investment and multinational mining companies by promoting liberal export of minerals. Stating that the rights of the mineral-based States should not …
Government-owned NMDC, India's single largest iron ore producer and exporter, is in talks with Canada's New Millennium Capital Corp (NML) for a $3.5 billion (Rs 14,000 crore) project to develop one of the world's largest undeveloped low-grade (magnetite) iron-ore deposits. Confirming this, Rana Som, NMDC chairman and managing director, said …
The Zambian government's attempt to increase earnings from its rich copper deposits by raising mineral taxes to global standards is facing stiff resistance from foreign mine owners operating in the country. In a submission to the National Assembly of Zambia on February 12, the mining firms rejected the new mining …
The State loses over Rs 70 crore every year because of the non-revision of royalty on minerals. However, companies extracting mineral ore have been making a killing in the market. According to the state government, it was the duty of the Centre to revise the royalty rates. But it had …
SHACHI CHATURVEDI On January 31, in the community hall of South Goa’s famous Shantadurga temple a public hearing is convened to discuss the renewal of mining lease to Shakti Bauxite Mine. The company currently operates on a small part of its concession area: some 26 ha. It has applied to …
