India's Exploration Licence regime was introduced under the MMDR Amendment Act, 2023, along with the Mineral (Auction) Amendment Rules, 202...

India's first auction of exploration licences took place in Goa, introducing 13 blocks for critical minerals like REEs, Zinc, and Copper. T...

Union Coal and Mines Minister G Kishan Reddy unveiled India's first-ever auction of Exploration Licences for 13 critical mineral blocks, in...

The central government plans to auction up to 20 critical mineral blocks for deeper exploration under a new license regime to improve the t...

Karnataka and Rajasthan have initiated the auction of Exploration Licence (EL) for critical and deep-seated minerals. The move, the first o...

In a strategic move, India is set to auction critical and offshore mineral blocks, along with issuing exploration licenses in 2024, aiming ...

"Underground (UG) mines are being bid out under commercial auction regime. This idea is to produce at least 10% of India's coal production ...

In the fiscal year 2022-23, India spent Rs 27,131 crore on copper imports, an increase from Rs 21,985 crore in the previous year, as per in...

India needs to implement further reforms to encourage mineral exploration in the country, says Sumit Deb, outgoing President of the Federat...

A bill that seeks to allow the private sector to mine six out of 12 atomic minerals, including lithium, and deep-seated minerals such as go...

The Mines and Minerals (Development and Regulation) Amendment Bill, 2023 has been passed by the Lok Sabha. This bill will give the Central ...

The proposed amendments to the Mines and Minerals (Development and Regulation) Act, 1957, "would facilitate, encourage and incentivise priv...

This is the fifth amendment to the Mines and Minerals (Development and Regulation) Act since 2014, with earlier changes mandating e-auction...

The amendment proposes to insert the provision of an exploration licence in the law which will be granted through auction for undertaking r...

If India is to find diamonds, it needs to have a separate policy for deep-seated minerals that also include gold and new-age minerals like ...

He said the mining industry is undergoing reforms through transformative investor friendly interventions like the Mines and Minerals (Devel...

The mining ministry wants to restrict bidding to only prospecting and mining, the stages that follow initial exploration.