The Ministry of Mines had organised the first National Conclave on Mines & Minerals on 4-5 July 2016 at Raipur jointly with the Government of Chhattisgarh. It was an astounding success, owing to overwhelming support of all stakeholders of the mining industry. All the participants expressed great satisfaction on the organisation and outcome of the conclave.
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The MMDR Amendment | Silver lining for M And As
Indian soil is blessed with rich mineral resources and has a long history of mining, mineral production, and mineral utilisation. The mining sector in India is governed by the provisions of the Mines and Mineral (Development and Regulation) Act, 1957 (MMDR Act) together with the rules prescribed there under.
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Odisha aims to reopen18 more mines by July-end
The state mines department has set an internal timeline to restart operation at 18 more mines, which were closed by the Supreme Court order, pending second and third renewal of their lease terms, by the end of July next.
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Seawater cooling
One environmental concern sometimes raised about seawater cooling is that it becomes a thermal pollutant. While this is likely true for once-through cooling systems, by using an open recirculation cooling system, you change the heat sink from the ocean to the atmosphere.
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Exporters take advantage of rise in price, rupee weakness
Mining firms are exporting iron ore in a big way on the back of increase in the price of the commodity in the global market and depreciation of rupee. Many miners are exporting iron ore fines and pellets to China as the price of the commodity rose considerably in recent days. Sources indicate that the prices of pellets rose from Rs 6,200 per tonne a month ago to Rs 6,700 per t
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Govt expects report on PPP policy in coal mining by Dec
By December 2013, government expects a nine-member panel to submit report on devising public-private-partnership (PPP) framework in the coal mining sector. In March 2013, the government set up the panel under
the chairmanship of Coal Secretary SK Srivastava to devise PPP framework
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Govt identified 3 blocks for Coal-to- Liquid projects
In order to develop coal liquefaction or coal-to- liquid technology, three coal blocks viz. north of Arkhapal, west of Radhikapur and Ramchandi promotional would be developed. These blocks, which have about 1,500 million tonne of geological coal reserves each, were identified by the Ministry of coal in consultation with Coal India (CIL) and central mine planning & desig
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Odisha govt wants to reserve mines to OMC
If the state government's plan goes well, Odisha Mining Corporation (OMC) would get all the remaining mineral bearing areas in the state. Odisha government would write a letter to the union government defending its stand to reserve all balance mineral bearing areas of the state not already held under any
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Ore miners want govt to relax export restriction
Iron ore miners want the government to withdraw the 30 per cent export duty on ore and removal of differential railway freight charged on ore meant for exports.Recently, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said the government would do the needful to smoothen iron ore export to boost overall exports and bring down the curr
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Meghalaya govt to reconsider mining policy
In order to address the concerns of all stakeholders, Meghalaya government decided to reconsider the state Mines and Minerals Policy, 2012 and implement it after holding wide consultations with them. It may be recalled that the state Mines and Minerals Policy, 2012 allows miners to continue with rat-hole coal