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High base spoils December IIP show
It may have been expected that the high base effect would limit industrial growth in December to less than six per cent. But, it was not anticipated that the continued contraction in mining output and a subdued manufacturing production would pull the numbers down to as low as 1.8 per cent. This has led Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee to express his disappointment. The electricity sector in the larger

SC tells Karnataka mining firms to draw up rehab plan

The Supreme Court on Friday asked mining companies in Karnataka to sit with the centrally empowered committee (CEC) and draw up a reclamation and rehabilitation plan for the region where the

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JSL to scale up chromite imports for Orissa plant

Due to higher prices of domestic chromite ore, Jindal Stainless Limited (JSL) has decided to increase import of chrome ore for use at its one-million-tonne stainless steel plant at Kalinga Nagar,

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AP Enterprise: CA mine dispute recalls wild past

California's Gold Rush was more than a century-and-a-half ago, but its Wild West spirit lives on in a dispute between government agencies and a landowner in the Sierra Nevada foothills that some

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Underground mining in Western Ghats safe: FIMI

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)

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Orissa iron ore exports tank in January after duty hike

Iron ore exports from Orissa, the country's biggest producer and third biggest exporter of this key steel making input, slipped significantly in January compared with December 2011 after the

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