Very soon you may get to tee off on a coalfield.
Byline: Sudha Nagaraj NEW DELHI: Ugly, abandoned, sooty coalfields across the country may soon reincarnate as lush green golf courses, well-maintained airfields and sites for marine fisheries. The government is looking into the feasibility of commercial exploitation of coal mines, whose natural resources have been exhausted and...

HC notice to govt on MLAs' pension.
BANGALORE: The High Court acting chief justice B. Padmaraj and justice V. Jagannathan ordered notices to the state government on the issue of pension of MLAs and MLCs. The petitioner S. Vasudeva, an advocate, alleged that the recent amendment to pension hike from Rs 3000 to Rs...

Mild tremors create panic in Kadapa.
HYDERABAD/TIRUPATI: Mild tremors of 3.4 magnitude in the Richter were felt in Kadapa in the early hours of Friday causing panic among people in the district. However, no damage to life or property has been reported. According to Srinivas of Kodur village in Kadapa district, he was...

Kudremukh Iron turns to mining IT.
Byline: Subhash Narayan NEW DELHI: The struggle for survival has forced hard-core brick and mortar company Kudremukh Iron Ore (KIOCL) to enter into software business. The metamorphosis is an outcome of the Supreme Court's order that has banned all mining activities at Kudremukh on environmental grounds. ...

Govt to outsource coal mining works.
Byline: Ramu Sarma HYDERABAD: The state government has put the issue of privatisation of the Singareni coal mines on the back burner but has decided to outsource some hi-tech operations to an US-based firm. The government on July 18 had issued GO No 5 which...

Abandoned coppermine to become museum.
An old copper mine in Pinar del Rio, Cuba's westernmost province, will become the island's first mining museum. The mine, closed in 1997, was once Cuba's most productive and richest copper mine, and still contains most of its former elements. Discovered at the beginning of...

China, zinc now on right side of history.
Byline: Pravin Palande MUMBAI: For those who track zinc, these are interesting times. Almost a decade ago in 1997, zinc and China were in the news for all the wrong reasons. Zhuzhou smelter of China went short on the metal to the extent of 1.80 lakh tonnes...

Tracking down those responsible isn't easy.
Byline: Diane Diane Dietz / The Register-Guard MINING'S TOXIC LEGACY After Formosa Exploration Inc. made a self-perpetuating environmental calamity out of a metals mine in Douglas County, its principal owners cleaned up the surface muck, then walked away. A state inspector who examined...

Asbestos fibers: barking up a tree.
In Libby, Mont., mining of asbestos-contaminated vermiculite--a natural insulating material--sickened or killed many workers and townspeople in recent decades. Now, a study finds that even 16 years after the vermiculite mine closed, area trees hold substantial amounts of asbestos, rendering them hazardous to a separate group of workers. ...

Mine reopening seen to generate 3,000 jobs; Toledo City residents eye other economic benefits.
Byline: MARS W. MOSQUEDA JR. TOLEDO CITY, Cebu - The much awaited reopening of Atlas Consolidated Mining and Development Corp.'s (ACMDC) copper mine in 2007 is expected to yield to Toledo socio-economic benefits it used to enjoy in the past, thus perking up the economy of this...