Reconnaissance Permit (RP) is granted for preliminary prospecting of a mineral through regional, aerial, geophysical or geochemical surveys...

On conservative basis taking an average of 100 employees per mine in the initial stage for 500 mines, there will be an employment generatio...

Sharma told that proposed tweaking or removing of the Section will affect 552 mineral blocks and added that if these blocks were allowed to...

The 280 mines planned for auction next fiscal have the mineral wealth of over Rs 10 lakh crore. Besides, there are 83 mines under litigation

The shortlisting will be done as per technical and financial criteria being drafted by consulting firm SBI Caps, Kumar said.

The ministry will select one or two exploration agencies through the tendering process, a government official said.

The development follows delays in disposal of cases where prospecting licences or reconnaissance permits were issued before commencement of...

The ministry has relaxed, with certain riders, restrictions imposed by it in a circular issued in 1969 that prohibited sharing of digital d...

India has been able to carry out only 10% regional mineral exploration while countries like Australia, which have similar geological endowm...

Mines Ministry will appoint a consultant this month and will float a tender by May to hire an agency to conduct the aero-geophysical survey.

The blocks will be given to private firms once the national mineral exploration policy is finalised. The policy aims to boost private inves...

Tomar singled out inadequate exploration as the single biggest hurdle in the development of mining sector.

The contiguous package of gold tenements or Yundamindera project is located about 30 kms North-west of Legacy's Mt Celia gold project, Lega...

A detailed assessment of the country's mineral resources is required before mines are put up for bidding with the aim of revenue maximisati...

The Naveen Patnaik government has started taking the multi-crore mining scam issue seriously by taking help of latest technology and punish...

Reliance Industries has won a licence for diamond mining in Madhya Pradesh and will invest Rs 1,000 crore in the mines measuring 1,800 sq k...

Mindless mining continues in Jharkhand without any real assessment of how much mineral the state actually has. It needs to map reserves afr...