Bauxite

While geologists expected to find minerals, Ramcharitmanas says hills in this region have skeletons of seers buried for thousands of years

Odisha holds over half of India's bauxite and iron ore reserves.

CIL's aluminium project in Odisha will include bauxite mining and will have an alumina refinery, an aluminium smelter as well as a captive power plant

A drive to reduce dependence on imported materials and technology, especially from China, is pushing India to invest in a battery technology that uses aluminium rather than lithium as the key ingredient.

Shares of National Aluminium Company Limited (Nalco) surged nearly 6 per cent to hit intraday high of Rs 50.95 after the state-run aluminium producer secured the mining lease of a bauxite mine in Odisha.

Navaratna PSU National Aluminium Company Limited (NALCO) has been granted Pottangi Bauxite Mines, in Koraput district of Odisha, where the company's 22,75,000-tonne lumina refinery is located.

Public sector units (PSUs) such as Nalco and Hindustan Copper Ltd have proposed to invest more than Rs 10,000 crore in the mining sector, Parliament was informed on Wednesday.

Malaysia today announced a three-month ban on bauxite mining in its rural state of Pahang from mid-January amid mounting concern over hazardous dust and pollution.

Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu is literally mining trouble in the tribal hills of Andhra Pradesh -- home to 18% of the country's bauxite reserves.

In a move that could trigger protests from tribals, the Andhra Pradesh government has given an approval for bauxite mining in 1,212 hectares of forest land in Visakhapatnam district with certain conditions.

More than two days after the blast in Madhya Pradesh that killed over 90 people, police are yet to track down the man allegedly responsible - Rajendra Kasawa. While his house remained locked, the police have found 69 detonators during a search at the house of his brother Narendra Kasawa.

Vedanta Ltd will halve output at its 1 million tonne-a-year alumina refinery in Odisha state in about two months and cut jobs, a senior executive said, due mainly to a shortage of raw material bauxite and weak world prices.

Mining conglomerate Vedanta on Tuesday said it will initiate steps for gradual closure of its alumina refinery at Lanjigarh in Odisha mainly due to shortage of raw material and absence of bauxite linkage within state.

India's 12 mineral producing states will put 82 mining blocks containing minerals such as iron ore, bauxite and limestone under the hammer by October-November this year, a top government official said on Tuesday.

The government has approved a proposal from Odisha to allocate a bauxite deposit with reserves of over 150 million tonnes to the state mining company, a move likely to help companies like Sesa Sterlite Ltd that are banking on the raw material to fire their aluminium smelters in the state.

While geologists expected to find minerals, Ramcharitmanas says hills in this region have skeletons of seers buried for thousands of years

Odisha holds over half of India's bauxite and iron ore reserves.

CIL's aluminium project in Odisha will include bauxite mining and will have an alumina refinery, an aluminium smelter as well as a captive power plant

A drive to reduce dependence on imported materials and technology, especially from China, is pushing India to invest in a battery technology that uses aluminium rather than lithium as the key ingredient.

Shares of National Aluminium Company Limited (Nalco) surged nearly 6 per cent to hit intraday high of Rs 50.95 after the state-run aluminium producer secured the mining lease of a bauxite mine in Odisha.

Navaratna PSU National Aluminium Company Limited (NALCO) has been granted Pottangi Bauxite Mines, in Koraput district of Odisha, where the company's 22,75,000-tonne lumina refinery is located.

Public sector units (PSUs) such as Nalco and Hindustan Copper Ltd have proposed to invest more than Rs 10,000 crore in the mining sector, Parliament was informed on Wednesday.

Malaysia today announced a three-month ban on bauxite mining in its rural state of Pahang from mid-January amid mounting concern over hazardous dust and pollution.

Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu is literally mining trouble in the tribal hills of Andhra Pradesh -- home to 18% of the country's bauxite reserves.

In a move that could trigger protests from tribals, the Andhra Pradesh government has given an approval for bauxite mining in 1,212 hectares of forest land in Visakhapatnam district with certain conditions.

More than two days after the blast in Madhya Pradesh that killed over 90 people, police are yet to track down the man allegedly responsible - Rajendra Kasawa. While his house remained locked, the police have found 69 detonators during a search at the house of his brother Narendra Kasawa.

Vedanta Ltd will halve output at its 1 million tonne-a-year alumina refinery in Odisha state in about two months and cut jobs, a senior executive said, due mainly to a shortage of raw material bauxite and weak world prices.

Mining conglomerate Vedanta on Tuesday said it will initiate steps for gradual closure of its alumina refinery at Lanjigarh in Odisha mainly due to shortage of raw material and absence of bauxite linkage within state.

India's 12 mineral producing states will put 82 mining blocks containing minerals such as iron ore, bauxite and limestone under the hammer by October-November this year, a top government official said on Tuesday.

The government has approved a proposal from Odisha to allocate a bauxite deposit with reserves of over 150 million tonnes to the state mining company, a move likely to help companies like Sesa Sterlite Ltd that are banking on the raw material to fire their aluminium smelters in the state.