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  • ECL mine accident toll rises to 5

    With one more worker succumbing to injury on Wednesday at the Dhanbad Central Hospital, the number of workers dead in the accident at Parascole West colliery of Eastern Coalfields Ltd(ECL) has risen

  • Meeting on mining today

    More than 200 mining experts from India and abroad will meet in Calcutta on Thursday to evolve effective maintenance management systems for underground and opencast mining in the country.Mine

  • Ministry's plan 'ambiguous'

    Thailand's Industry Ministry's planned request at today's cabinet meeting to allow ore exploration does not say how it will affect watershed areas environmentally. An official at the Office of

  • Ministry seeks approval for ore tests in protected areas

    Thailand's Industry Ministry will seek cabinet approval on Tuesday to undertake industrial ore exploration in protected and watershed areas despite reservations from the Agriculture and Co-operatives

  • Nuclear fallout

    What is going on at Jaduguda> On the face of it, the 30,000 strong community looks like any cluster of Indian villages. But this is no pastoral idyll. In environmental circles, Jadugoda is known as

  • Gold mineral spotted in carbonate rocks at Newania

    Geologists have spotted for the first time 'gold mineral' in carbonate rocks at Newania near Udaipur in southeastern part of Rajasthan, which has been known till now as Aravalli limestone area,

  • Minerals

    not viable for mining : Bhutan had several mineral deposits such as tungsten, copper, lead, zinc and graphite but its probable poor economic returns ruled out extraction prospects, according to the

  • Proposed state mining plan woos private parties

    A state government committee on Monday proposed a mining policy for Maharashtra, which aims at whipping up private investment in the sector. The state cabinet is expected to decide on whether to

  • WCL and SECL operating illegal mines in the State

    For the conservation of forest, the Union Government constituted Forest (Conservation) Act, 1980 but the STate Government has, without seeking the Centre's permission, carried its projects on forest

  • Shortage of roughs plagues diamond industry in Surat

    The Indian diamond cutting and polishing industry is facing an unprecedented shortage of roughs, supplied, hitherto by De Beers and Argyale. "The market control operations, launched in January this

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