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SMALL-SCALE MINING: A GLOBAL OVERVIEW Edited by Ajoy K Ghose Oxford and IBH Publishing
David Manely on the Fallout of Dipping Oil Prices
David Manely is an economic analyst with Natural Resource Governance Institute, United Kingdom
Odisha's mines may power the country, but what about its people?
Mining has not yielded commensurate dividends to life in Odisha
Draft Pesticide Management Bill, 2017 not comprehensive enough: PAN India
PAN India, a non-profit working on pesticides submitted its concerns over the Bill and demanded transparent consultation process before finalisation
Mining explosives attract Maoists
New Mineral Policy gets Cabinet approval
Citing limited exploration of mineral reserves, Modi government opens up reconnaissance permits to private companies
Dealing with the past
Mines to be closed
Only four of 12 mineral-rich states collect funds for mining-impacted areas
It has been nearly a year since the Central government notified new mining rules mandating collection of funds for development of mining-impacted …
CHARGES DENIED
Look back at the decade: Geopolitics
At the end of the second decade of the millenium no one knows how human activity would affect its pristine ecology
River flowing through the most polluted Russian city turns red
Russian authorities assume that water has reddened due to chemical waste discharged from the nearby Nadezhda Metallurgical Plant
A decade of loot
At more than Rs 65,000 crore, the mining scam in Odisha has surpassed that in Goa and Karnataka. The penalties, however, came too late
Mine owners, loosen purse strings
New mining bill proposes sharing 26 per cent profits with affected people
DMF best practices: Are DMFs actually functioning to their potential and promise?
The answer is no for the most part, according to a new report of the Centre for Science and Environment
Can mining be sustainable?
Two main pre-conditions for achieving sustainability are good governance and self-regulating mining enterprises
Dangerous mines
Burying of waste by the mining industry can severely damage plant and animal life
Mining at all cost
In Photos: Canopy bridge comes up in Odisha to avoid roadkills
The bridge provides safe passage to monkeys and squirrels in the forest, who would often be hit by trucks carrying iron ore
‘No country can control the entire critical mineral value chain’
India needs to act fast on exploration, excavation and setting up critical material value chains through adequate downstream investments
Town today, gone tomorrow
Morwa town, built to serve mining companies, faces the ugly truth of its own displacement
Silica in Assam's forest
In Court
Tibetan landscape may soon disappear
In the 1980s, when very few people visited Tibet, Michael Buckley, an Australian settled in Canada, wrote the first Lonely Planet guide to the …