The Indian government has banned beach sand mining by private companies in a bid to check illegal sand mining and coastal erosion from rampant violations of mining rules across coastal states.
“Coastal areas in Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Odisha and Andhra Pr…
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tate-run Coal India Limited’s (CIL’s) ambitious plans of ramping up coal washing capacity has been hit by time overruns.
The delays in operationalising various coal washery projects has attracted criticism from the Coal Ministry at a recently held rev…
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Argentina has offered to share lithium geological information for exploration with India as it aims to promote government-backed joint venture (JV) mining projects in the Latin American nation. The Geological and Mining Survey of Argentina would share …
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The Indian government is having second thoughts over continuing with revenue sharing agreements in contracts with successful bidders at auction of oil and natural gas fields.
While no decision has been taken yet, a section within the government is bac…
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Opening up of the Indian coal sector for commercial mining by private miners has officially been put on the backburner. The move to open up commercial mining and auction off coal blocks to private miners for production without any end-use restrictions …
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Finally overruling strident opposition, the Indian government has approved taking away smaller discovered oil and natural gas blocks of its national oil exploration and production (E&P) majors and allocating them to private investors through auctio…
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Seizing an opportunity offered by recently relaxed rules, State-run miner Coal India Limited (CIL) has lined up a corpus of around $422-million to kick-start its sputtering coalbed methane (CBM) projects. The renewed thrust of getting the CBM projects …
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The Indian Power Ministry has issued directives to its counterparts in the Coal Ministry and Indian Railways (IR) to give the highest priority to dry fuel supplies to pithead thermal power plants, in light of a trend of lower coal dispatching from Coal…
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India’s Mines Ministry is working on a proposal to bundle mandatory approvals, like forest, environment and pollution, for bidders of 288 mining leases slated to expire in March next year.
According to a government official, putting together mandator…
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Indian State-run Hindustan Copper Limited (HCL), the country’s sole integrated copper producer, on Saturday started construction of a concentrator at its Rakha mines, marking efforts to restart the mines in the eastern state of Jharkhand. The ground-br…
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