HC directs State to check illegal quarrying
The High Court directed the Andhra Pradesh government to take immediate steps to check illegal quarrying and lifting of sand in streams and river beds which is posing serious threat to ground water
The High Court directed the Andhra Pradesh government to take immediate steps to check illegal quarrying and lifting of sand in streams and river beds which is posing serious threat to ground water
A division bench of the Andhra Pradesh high court comprising Chief Justice Satya Brata Sinha and Justice VVS Rao in a recent order directed the state authorities to stop illegal quarrying and lifting
The Ministers of Mines from various States will meet here tomorrow at a conference convened by the Union Minister for Mines and Minerals, Mr Sunder Lal Patwa, to deliberate on ways to generate higher
Following January's cyanide spill in Romania and new reports on mining disasters from China, environmentalists are calling for governments worldwide to adopt international mining standards. At
Fertile fields on Bendigo's outskirts have become a battleground between the region's oldest farming families and mining companies that believe the farmers are sitting on a fortune in gold. State law
The Union Government has agreed to take up the Karnataka's proposal for an eco-impact study of the Bellary-Hospet iron-ore belt with the French environmental organisation - Bureau de Recherches
More than $800 million will be spent to clean up one of America's most toxic Superfund sites, a defunct copper mine that spews neon-green water.Federal scientists have called the highly acidic water
A high-powered government committee has suggested that the government should delay by three years the implementation of irs order relating to lowering the ash content in coal, as it was not feasible
Mining bosses regularly concealed deaths and fatal accidents, an official newspaper reported Tuesday, suggesting that China's already horrific mine safety record is worse than previously
The Karnataka High Court today ordered issuance of notices to the State government and others on a public interest writ petition seking directions to prevent quarrying of sand from Dodda Halla, which
A gas explosion in a coal mine in southern China killed 118 miners, a mine official said Thursday.The blast occurred Wednesday night at the Muchonggou Coal Mine in Shuicheng, a city in Guizhou
A gas explosion in a coal mine in southern China killed 151 miners, a local mine official said on Thursday.A blast occurred at about 8 pm on Wednesday at the Muchonggou coal mine in Shuicheng, a city
The limestone quarrying undertaken by the local cement factories has been posing a grave threat to the environment in Miryalguda area (Andhra Pradesh). Indiscriminate quarrying in the forest areas
The Noamundi Iron Mill (NIM) of Tata Steel has been adjudged 'pollution free' mine.The mine received this award for excellent work in the field of environmental
The Orissa State Mining Workers Federation on Monday asked the State Government to impose a ban on trading of chromite ore from the mines in Sukinda valley leased out to various
The Gujarat government is contemplating to evolve comprehensive and intergrated plan to expedite the explorations of various minerals like bauxite, limestone, china clay and mica of which huge
The Supreme Court has admitted a public interest suit which accuses the Uranium Corporation of India of not taking steps to safeguard people from the effects of uranium mining activities in Jaduguda
The Supreme Court yesterday admitted a petition seeking to stop radiation hazards to people around the Jaduguda uranium mines in the Ranchi district of Bihar.Though the Uranium Corporation of India
An Australian mining company facing a massive compensation claim following one of Europe's worst environmental disasters yesterday denied an out-of-court settlement was imminent. The Hungarian
Officials of the UN Interim Administration in Kosovo (UNMIK) have signed an agreement with an international mining consortium to bring the Trepca mining and metallurgical complex back to