CEOs need to accelerate their action plans to safeguard the production of commodities critical to the global population and economy as heat stress and drought risk rise around the world, according to PwC's report, Climate Risks to Nine Key Commodities: Protecting People and Prosperity, published. The report, which analysed nine …
Down with mining. This is the verdict that has been given by the residents of Tambogrande, a northern farming district in Peru. The people rejected a Canadian company's plans to develop a rich mineral deposit that lies beneath this district. Of the 19,996 people who voted, 98.6 per cent said …
Heads of panchayati raj institutions have aggressively set the government a deadline to amend the Indian constitution and implement changes that would forcibly impact and empower Village India. It would give villages control over natural resources like water, minor forest produce and minerals, which at present lies with the state …
• For effective development and utilisation of its natural resources, the Orissa government intends to draft a mineral policy soon. Along with this, the state also wants to formulate a gems policy to tap its vast gem reserves. • Around 4,000 villagers of Gondriala in Kodad mandal of Nalgonda district …
The focus of the country study is to prepare on overview of the mining (including processing of ore) and mineral industry and its impacts on sustainable development.This report seeks to provide an overview of the mining and minerals sector in India and the issues that have a bearing on the …
Regional gravity and magnetic surveys were carried out over the Archaeoan-Proterozoic Crystallines of Betul district, Madhya Pradesh covering an area of 130 sq.km. Uranium mineralization in the area is hoted by the graphitic schist unit of older metasediments of Sonaghati and Junawani areas. Original Source
the planetesimal theory of the formation of the Earth, suggesting Earth's formation four billion years ago, is verified by analysing the elements present in the Earth's mantle. But till recently the unexpectedly small amount of niobium present in the mantel has led to doubts over the theory's veracity. Now, a …
a breakthrough research has found a method to extract nickel and cobalt from the waste ore that is left behind after chromium is extracted from the Sukhinda mines in Orissa. The process, discovered by the Central Scientific Research Laboratory's regional research lab in Bhubaneswar, will also render harmless the tonnes …
a new melting and recycling process can separate toxic residues from contaminated metals and retain them safely in filters and slag. The process, developed by Siempelkamp of Krefeld, Germany, was originally meant for the nuclear industry to melt and recycle radioactively contaminated metallic residues from nuclear installations. There is a …
RESERVES of platinum have been found for the first time in India at Baula-Nuashahi in Orissa by the Geological Survey of India (gsi). The concentration of platinum found in the region is believed to be at par with the world's leading platinum mines in South Africa, Russia, usa and Zimbabwe. …
US researchers have developed a technique that can not only help recover precious metals, such as gold, but also clean up waterways contaminated with toxic metals like lead, mercury and chromium. The method has been developed by scientists at the us department of energy's (doe) Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in …
researchers at the Japan Atomic Energy Research Institute ( jaeri ) have developed a new material that can effectively recover rare-earth metals from seawater. Japan hardly produces rare-earth metals such as vanadium, cobalt and uranium, which have several industrial, engineering and biomedical uses. For example, vanadium is used in the …
a recent study conducted by environmentalist Banke Behari Das and his team has warned that people living in Orissa's Sukinda valley will be exposed to high levels of toxic pollution. The region has the largest concentration of chrome ore deposits in Asia. Das said stomach ailments, respiratory and heart diseases …
Scientists have unearthed a seam of precious metal on the Scottish island of Rum. Duncan Pirrie, a geologist at the Camborne School of Mines, UK, found grains of platinum in the sediment of streams on the island, which prompted him to look for the metal in the surrounding rocks. Although …
every schoolchild knows that calcium is very important for growth, particu-larly so as it helps our bodies develop better bones and teeth. Well, it turns out that calcium has
RESEARCHERS in the US have developed an easy, risk-free method to find buried landmines. All you have to do, they say, is fire a special bullet into the ground from a helicopter and the bullet will do the rest. The 'special' bullet emits a radar pulse as it grinds to …
Geologists have discovered huge deposits of gold, silver, copper and zinc in the Manus Basin, part of the Bismarck Sea to the northeast of Papua New Guinea. These minerals were found while they were studying the formation of metal ores on the seafloor. A team led by Ray Binns of …
Diamonds can be a computer's best friend, say researchers at the Ernest Orlando Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, California, USA. They claim that diamond coating could allow computer disk-drives to hold nearly 20 times more data than the existing drives. Hard drives can store merely four gigabytes of data. But the …
diamond - the hardest natural substance known and one of the two crystalline forms of carbon -- has a variety of uses in industry. Since the first synthesis of diamond in the laboratory in 1956 by F P Bundy and others in 1956, there have been many attempts for producing …
a recent study has revealed that iodine-deficiency is widespread in the country. It stalks not only the Himalayan region but also sub-Himalayan terai areas, riverine areas and even the coastal regions of the country. Out of more than 15 billion persons in the world at the risk of iodine deficiency …
