With an annual revenue target of ₹11,000 crore for the current financial year, the Department of Mines and Geology will assign district-wise revenue and operational targets to geologists, Secretary of the MSME and Mines and Geology Department Rohini Sindhuri said
Spread over 597.820 hectares in Tuggali mandal, the mine primarily produces gold, along with silver, copper, lead and zinc
Chile wants to widen the group of countries buying its copper and attract about US$100 billion in mining investment over the next decade, its foreign minister said on Wednesday, in the most explicit move yet by the new government in Santiago to reduce its exposure to Chinese demand. “The market is highly concentrated and we need to broaden the number of places that buy our copper,” Francisco Perez Mackenna said at a Bloomberg summit in Singapore, part of a tour through the Asia-Pacific. He said...
On a 1,620-hectare (4,000 acres) site north of Manila, a hi-tech hub is pitched by Philippine and US officials as a global gateway to AI, semiconductors and critical minerals. For critics, however, the proposed development – part of the US-backed global Pax Silica project – is concrete proof of another infrastructure push over contested land at the expense of communities, threatening their livelihood and scarce water supply. The project is a further example of ambitious investment pitches moving...
Carney and Saudi Crown Prince Bin Salman strengthen partnerships after years of strained relations under Trudeau.
Objects to Union Minister Kishan Reddy’s claims on Tadicherla coal block
China’s dominance in rare earth mining, refining and exports has long been viewed as a strategic advantage. But a new study by Chinese researchers argues that the country’s rare earth industry has its own critical weakness. “China is not in a leading position in mastering key core technologies in certain fields,” the researchers wrote in the paper. Published in the latest issue of the Bulletin of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the study shifts the focus away from resource reserves and...
From Kenya to Ghana to Mali, governments are insisting their minerals be processed at home before they leave.
Chief Minister directs officials to focus not only on extraction of minerals but also on processing them within Andhra Pradesh to maximise revenue through value addition and scientific utilisation