Despite a halt on iron ore mining in Karnataka since July last year, the state government has earned a royalty revenue of Rs270 crore, about 62 per cent of the total royalty earnings in the last

India’s iron ore exports are likely to hit a new low during the 2012-13 financial year and settle at about 40 million tonnes (mt), a drop of close to 35 per cent over the current year’s

Even as the Central Empowered Committee (CEC) has recommended the deletion of the reference to Western Ghats in the earlier report of the Indian Council of Forestry Research and Education (ICFRE)

Iron ore prices are likely to harden in the domestic market in the next few months owing to shortage of the commodity in Karnataka. The supply from Karnataka, about 25 per cent of the national