Enhancing prosperity through resource efficiency in India

We need to enhance resource efficiency and promote the use of secondary raw materials as a strategy to minimise the potential trade-off between …

'Ours naturally!'

Digging deeper for development

Recovering rare metals

Japanese scientists have found a way to recover rare-earth metals from seawater

Dig and forget

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Precious mine

With the help of nickel and vitreous carbon, the industrial manufacture of diamonds becomes easier

An issue against the law

Striking platinum

People's verdict ignored

The missing element

Niobium, an element scientists searched for in the Earth's mantle, is found in the core instead

Precious metals unearthed

And safe recovery

How to remove hazardous wastes from contaminated metals

Who'll bell the cats?

Bellary in Karnataka, targeted by industrial houses for 'development', death and devastation, needs an organised resistance to the mayhem

Scrounging metal

A new technique helps recover metals from water. It could be toxic metals, or even gold

Using waste ore

Planning Commission set captive mines free for use by steel plants

Captive mines get green light

Spark in the soot

Conflict kindles among states of India's iron ore belt

Quarry hunt

Contrasting sentiments marked the opening of the 19th World Mining Congress in New Delhi on November 1. President A P J Abdul Kalam warmly …

Mining the Himalaya

Will biodiversity hotspots such as the Himalaya become hunting grounds of the notorious mining industry? This concern has been raised by experts …

Sponge iron(y)

Orissa turning into a haven for the hazardous industry

District Mineral Foundation has over Rs 11,000 crore to invest in mining-affected districts

However, funds are yet to be sanctioned for development programmes in most districts

Iron in the soul

The iron ore rush

Companies can't wait to mine Orissa's rich deposits; government goes with the flow

"Mahua memoirs", a documentary

DOCUMENTARY>> MAHUA MEMOIRS directed by Vinod Raja produced in collaboration with Equations and HIVOS regional office

No more magic in 'Abra'

People in the Philippines rouse themselves to save the valley of their ancestors