The government of the Indian state of Odisha has allowed operations to resume in eight iron ore mines in the state following its earlier decision to fast-track mining license renewals, according to media reports. The mines that will resume ...
Tags: Iron Ore, Tata Steel
The Indian state of Odisha is expected to renew the iron ore mining licenses of 10 out of 26 local mines within two months, according to a Reuters report quoting an Indian government official saying the license renewal process will be ...
The Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry of India (ASSOCHAM) has stated that the Indian Supreme Court order for the temporary closure of about 26 iron ore mines in the Indian state of Odisha may result in a significant fall in ...
Tags: Iron Ore, import duty
India's Supreme Court has announced a partial mining ban affecting about half of the iron ore mines located in the Indian state of Odisha due to non-renewal of mining leases. The Supreme Court also said that several mines have been found to ...
Tags: Iron Ore, Iron Ore Mines
Business Standard reported that the Comptroller and Auditor General of India has rapped the Karnataka government for its failure to initiate any time-bound action plan to monitor the implementation of the Karnataka Mineral Policy 2008. ...
Tags: mining, Mineral, minerals extracted, iron ore fines, iron ore
Business Standard reported that the sponge iron industry in Karnataka, which accounts for about 22 % of the state’s total iron and steel industry, is in doldrums owing to acute shortage of iron ore. As per report, while a majority ...
Tags: Iron ore, Iron, ore, steel industry
Business Standard reported that the vigilance department in Odisha has initiated cases against mine owners in connection with illegal mining. Mr Rajani Kant Singh minister for steel & mines said that the miners against whom cases have ...
Tags: vigilance department, Odisha, mine, illegal mining
Business Line reported that the Karnataka Iron and Steel Manufacturers'Association has asked the state government to speed up the grant of various mining leases to resume iron ore mining. Addressing reporters after the KISMA members ...
Tags: KISMA, Mining Clearances, state government
vanguardngr reported that Ajaokuta Steel Company was a big dream, and Mr Noel Onoja remembers with nostalgia the splendor of the complex, and the dream that it had the potential to place the country on the path of international industrial ...
Tags: steel, Metallurgy
Business Standard reported that as many as 54 mining leases in Odisha are operating under deemed extension following the expiry of their leases. The expiry period of the leases ranges from 4 to 25 years. According to information given by ...
Tags: expiry period, leases ranges, constitutional machinery
It is reported that the situation for mining and steel companies in Karnataka continues to be grim despite the Supreme Court order allowing some of the mines to resume operations. Delays in getting clearances from government bodies and in ...
The Pioneer reported that in 5 years, mining companies in Goa exported illegally extracted iron ore to the tune of 39.56 million tonnes, matching in scale and proportion to the illegal mining business in the big state of Karnataka. ...
Times of India reported that Rampant illegal iron ore mining in Goa, which has devastated the state, is much larger than the illegal mining in Karnataka and the Union ministry of environment and forests granted green clearances to 162 mines ...
Tags: illegal iron ore mining, environment and forests, environment panel
Goa state pollution control board has decided to return all applications seeking renewal of consent to operate filed by mining lease holders and other parties,as the iron ore industry has come to a grinding halt after the Supreme Court ...
Tags: mining activity, pollution control, iron ore, Goa
The central empowered committee's interim reported that the state government may be directed to ascertain the lease wise details of iron ore legally produced by lease holders from 2005-06 onwards,the consignor wise details of iron ore of ...