Sri Lankan authorities displayed perhaps the world’s largest natural corundum blue sapphire, weighing 310 kilograms, which was found in a gem pit about three months ago. Local gemologists, who have examined the sapphire, said it was one of the rarest gems in the world as it weighed more than 300 kilograms. International organizations are yet […]
Coal India (CIL) recorded a 6.3 per cent year-on-year growth in production at 156.8 million tonnes in the third quarter of the current fiscal, while its quarter-on-quarter growth was 36.4 per cent over the production of 115 million tonnes during the second quarter. Supplies in the quarter under review grew by 9.2 per cent y-o-y at […]
India’s Coal Minister Pralhad Joshi said that 1,140 parties have shown interest in taking part in this new chapter in the country’s mining history just a few days into the auction process of coal blocks to commercial mining operators. In mid-June 2020, Prime Minister Narendra Modi India announced that his administration was ending a four-decade state monopoly […]
Pakistan’s military is taking a key role in the development of one of the world’s biggest untapped copper and gold deposits, which is currently stalled by a multi-billion dollar legal wrangle with foreign mining firms, multiple sources familiar with the situation revealed to Reuters News Agency. The Reko Diq mine has become a test case […]
