The “Offshore Areas Mineral (Development and Regulation) Amendment Act, 2023” brings substantial changes to regulations governing mineral development in offshore areas. This analysis delves into each amendment’s
<p>Open-pit mine is still an unavoidable activity but can become unsustainable without the restoration of degraded sites.<a href="http://www.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/files/file/opencast_mining_restoration.pdf"
<p>Order of the Supreme Court of India in the matter of Common Cause Vs Union of India & Others dated 16/01/2019 regarding deleterious effect of mining on vegetation of the area.<a href="http://www.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/files/file/mining-effect-vegetation-Order_16-Jan-2019.pdf"
<p>Order of the Supreme Court of India in the matter of Neelambar Baba & Others Vs Union of India & Others dated 27/03/2018 regarding stoppage of illegal stone mining, crushing and blasting activities
<p>Judgement of the National Green Tribunal (Southern Zone, Chennai) in the matter of Joy Kaitharnath Vs Kerala Minerals and Metals Ltd. dated 31/08/2017 regarding discharge of effluents by Kerala Minerals
An Act to reform the law on regulation and management of mining activities in the country for long term development of mining sector, building global value chain, ensuring broad-based ownership, achieving
<p>Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Shantanu Sharma Vs Union of India & Others dated 24/08/2016 regarding the use of fly ash as land fill to reclaim low lying areas including backfilling
<p>Christmas Island has been mined for rock phosphate for over 100 years, and as mining will finish in the next few decades there is a need to develop alternative economies on the island, such as high
<p>Recolonisation of soil by macrofauna (especially ants, termites and earthworms) in rehabilitated open-cut mine sites is inevitable and, in terms of habitat restoration and function, typically of great
<p>From 2010-2013, integrated health and environmental responses addressed an unprecedented epidemic lead poisoning in Zamfara State, northern Nigeria. Artisanal gold mining caused widespread contamination
The Ministry of Mines has prepared the base paper for National Mineral Exploration Policy (Non-Fuel and Non-Coal Minerals) for enabling auction of the mineral concessions as provided under the MMDR Amendment
