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Activists demand financial liability for environmental disaster : In the wake of the disastrous January 30th cyanide spill from the Aurul SA gold mine in Baia Mare, Romania, environmental groups have
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Greens bent on stopping Kudremukh company
Any move to restore the licence of Kudremukh Iron Ore Company Limited to mine the hills in the Western Ghats would be opposed tooth and nail, Magasaysay award winner and environmental activist K V
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Close 23 HP limestone mines
CMRT : Closure of 23 limestone mines employing about 5700 persons in the Sataun and Kamroo areas of the Sirmour district has been recommended by the Central Mining Research Institute (CMRI) Dhanbad.
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Groups clash over 'illegal' gems mining
Two persons sustained bullet injuries when rival groups clashed over the "possession" of 'illegal' gemstone mining areas of Bandoguda in the Junagarh area of Kalahandi district yesterday.
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Four feared dead in Freeport flood
An accident at Freeport McMoRan Copper & Gold Inc's huge Indonesian mine has left four workers missing and presumed dead, others injured, and some Jakarta bureaucrats and activists fuming about the
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Waste spills from copper mine
A rockslide at the Grasberg copper mine in Indonesia has sent waste spilling into a nearby valley, angering locals and environmentalists. Four employees are still missing after hundreds of tonnes of
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Placer Dome searches out environmental high ground
After a 1996 disaster in the Phillipines, Placer Dome, the Canadian gold mining company is trying to win over critics and restore credibility. In 1996 a tailings dam burst at its Marcopper mine in
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'Dam defect' caused poisoning
January's cyanide spill from a Romanian gold mine, that polluted 2,000km of rivers in Romania, Hungary and Yugoslavia, and killed many thousands of fish, was partly due to inherent faults in the
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Design, weather caused Romanian cyanide spill - UN
A U.N. report has blamed technical problems and bad weather for a spill of slurry containing cyanide from a Romanian gold mine in January. The spill from a mine in northwest Romania on January 30
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Solving Sukhinda's waste problems
A pilot project in Bhubaneswar could solve a major environmental problem by using the waste ore from Sukhinda's chromium mines to manufacture more useful metals.
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Coal Mines Bill tabled in Rajya Sabha
Government today introduced in the Rajya Sabha the Coal Mines (Nationalisation) Amendment Bill, 2000 amidst stiff opposition from Left parties. As soon as mines minister P r Kumaramangalam rose to
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Quarrying banned around Bannerghatta National Park
Mines and Geology Minsiter V Muniyappa today said quarrying had been banned in one-km outer radius of Bannerghatta National Park and action would be taken against the officials concerned if illegal
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Mining laws being flouted in Himachal
Mining laws are allegedly being flouted in Himachal Pradesh, apparently with the connivance of the authorities and without prior permission of the ofrest department.Widespread indiscriminate mining
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'Radiation doses received by Jaduguda miners within limits'
The Atomic Energy Regulatory Board (AERB) said on Thursday that the mining and processing operations being carried out by the Uramium Corporation of India (UCI) at its miners in Jaduguda in Bihar
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Plea to ban mining in Kudremukh National Park
The fourth National Consultation on Wildlife Conservation and People's livelihood Rights has unanimously called for total ban on mining in the Kudremukh National Park. The national park is from where
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Villagers says Ashanti's goldmine pollution unbearable
The residents of Sanso and Anlo villages near Ashanti Goldfields Co's giant Obuasi gold mine say they will no longer put up with the mine's pollution and want to be resettled, the Ghana News Agency
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Environmentalists warn Clinton of reversal on strip mining
A coalition of 21 environmental groups complained to President Clinton today that the U.S. administration was about to side with the coal industry and undercut a federal court decision that would
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Landowners threaten BHP with suit over pollution
Steps by Australia's Broken Hill Proprietary Co. to extricate itself from its environmentally damaging Ok Tedi copper and gold mine in Papua New Guinea took a step backward with landowners
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Illegal mining incurring loss to Govt
Ineptness of the authorities responsible for ensuring the security of government property and its sources of income has led major financial loss to State Government. The State Government has been
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Coal mining likely to be opened to pvt sector
The government is expected to throw open mining to domestic companies. The Union cabinet on Wednesday will take a decision on the amendment to the Coal Mines (Nationalisation) Act, 1973. The