As more people seek out electric vehicles and batteries to store renewable energy, demand for lithium, the metal at the core ...

In a major boost to the plans of Singareni Collieries Company Ltd (SCCL) to achieve at least 60 million tonnes of coal production this year (2026-27), an expert appraisal committee of the Ministry of ...

Open-cast mining by Chenxi Investments has stripped about 12km² of vegetation in Shurugwi, leaving parts of the Boterekwa Escarpment and Dunraven Falls scarred and vulnerable to erosion. Mining ...

At least 18 labourers died in a dynamite blast at an illegal coal mine in Meghalaya. The explosion occurred in a rat-hole coal mine, a method banned since 2014. Rat-hole mining involves narrow tunnels ...

Researchers have made a major breakthrough with regard to the history of mining in Bronze Age Britain. They have established that there was a great mining boom in the area much earlier than thought.

At the 17th India Coal Summit, NITI Aayog advisor (Energy) Rajnath Ram underlined that India’s energy transition will not mean the end of coal in the near term. While India has pledged to achieve net ...

It’s an inconvenient fact that most of Earth’s largesse of useful minerals is locked up in, under, and around a lot of rock. Our little world condensed out of the remnants of stars whose death throes ...

This story is part of the Grist series Unearthed: The Mining Issue, which examines the global race to extract critical minerals for the clean energy transition. While “there’s a lot of room for ...

The Deocha-Pachami-Harinsingha-Dewanganj coal block hosts estimated reserves of 1.2bt of coal. Credit: LarysaPol/Shutterstock. The State Government of West Bengal in India is considering coal ...

West Bengal is exploring underground coal gasification in the Deocha-Pachami block. Traditional mining will be used for 70 per cent of the coal development, while gasification will be used for the ...

CHENNAI: Look at the leaves of plants and trees growing in areas near an open cast mine and chances are you would find fine particles of dust sitting on them. Foliar dust is generated during the ...