Sand mining labourers travel on a boat after their work during COVID-19 lockdown, in Patna.
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Police officials investigate the site where three people were killed in a mishap due to illegal coal mining at China Croak South Mines, Jharia, in Dhanbad.
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Riot police watch as protesters demonstrate the ongoing Mining Philippines 2018 Annual International Conference in Manila, Philippines. The protesters are calling for responsible m...
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Residents from the nickel mining island of Manicani, central Philippines, stage a die-in protest in front of the office of Nickel Asia, a Nickel mining company, to demand its closu...
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Mine workers sit on a hill during the commemoration near Marikana in Rustenburg, South Africa. On August 16, 2012 police shot and killed 34 striking Lonmin miners, apparently while...
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Sacred space The Niyamgiri hills already look ravaged
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Congress activists during a protest in Bhopal against the killing of Constable Dharmendra Singh Chauhan by the truck of a sand mafia in Morena.
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Constable Dharmendra Chouhan (inset) was mowed down allegedly by sand mafia when he tried to stop the dumper carrying illegally mined sand from Chambal River near a village in More...
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi with Union Mines and Steel Minister Narendra Singh Tomar presenting the 2nd trophy to SAIL CMD C S Verma during the dedication ceremony of the moderniz...
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Mining baron Janardhan Reddy waves to supporters after his realese from Central Jail in Bengaluru.
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Farmers of Machavaram mandal protest against the government orders to cancel the mining lease of Saraswati Power Project, near AP CM Chandrababu Naidu's camp office in Guntur.
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Activist Ramesh Agrawal wins Green ‘Nobel’, the Goldman prize for his work in stopping a coal mining project in Gare, Chhattisgarh. Shortly after Jindal Steel project was nixed...
Interpol red-corner notice out against Congress RS MP K.V.P. Ramachandra Rao in an FBI briribery case; $18.5 mn was allegedly paid in bribes to Indian officials over a 2006 AP tita...
Narender Singh Tomar takes charge of Mining Ministry at Shastri Bhawan in New Delhi.
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A miner at the entrance of the coal mine in Soma, Turkey.
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Relatives of a victim of the mine accident stand next to the grave of their loved one, in Soma, Turkey.
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People attend a mine accident victim's burial in Soma, Turkey.
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Rescue workers carry the body of a miner outside the coal mine in Soma, Turkey where rescuers desperately raced against time to reach more than 200 miners trapped underground after...
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Family members react, as they wait outside the mine in Soma, western Turkey. Rescuers desperately raced against time to reach the more than 200 miners trapped underground after an ...
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People gather during the opening of the Basantimata colliery under Nirsa Block in Dhanbad. Search for the four trapped miners ended after 28 hours with the recovery of three more b...
A bench of Justices Ashok Bhushan and K M Joseph directed the state administration to hand over the illegally extracted coal to Coal India Limited (CIL) which will auction it and deposit the funds with the state government.
Former Chief Minister and SP chief, Akhilesh Yadav held the Mining portfolio in the state from 2012 to 2013. Gayatri Prajapati succeded Yadav as the Mining Minister.
Activists and civil society organisations from across the country are up in arms over the arrest of Lingaraj Azad, the leader of Niyamgiri Suraksha Samiti (NSS), which spearheaded the movement against bauxite mining by aluminium major Vedanta in the Niyamgiri hills, considered sacred by the local Dongria Kondhs.
Stating that he had not indulged in any anti-party activities, Jena said he could not fit as a member of the Congress because he was not "accumulating properties" from the loot of mines.
The PIL filed by Aditya N Prasad also sought a direction to the Centre and other authorities concerned to prepare a Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) for rescue operations in mining.
Karnataka's new Forest minister Anand Singh’s election affidavit lists 15 pending criminal cases—11 filed by the Karnataka Lokayukta under the Mines and Minerals (Development and Regulation) Act and the forest protection law, one case by the forest department and three by the CBI.
State-owned firms, rather than private ones, will drive India’s quest for mining security. Overseas acquisitions by PSU giants will become the norm in the near future.
Although the policy framework has evolved, there are challenges related to linkages that the auction process to lease the mines has with production, exploration, technology, and land acquisition
Robots and drones could become a large part of the workforce while artificial intelligence, 3-D simulations and 3-D printing will provide the cutting edge to new-age mining