-Live Mint The ministerial committee will formulate policy on the distribution of Iron Ore and other minerals  Orissa is forming a ministerial committee to formulate a policy on the distribution of Iron Ore and other minerals, suggesting supplies might get tightened further after a mining ban in Goa and negligible availability in Karnataka.   A notification on this was issued late on Tuesday. The committee has to “suggest measures of making Iron Ore, manganese ore,...

-The Times of India Rehabilitation of the illegal Iron Ore mining-ravaged environment in Bellary, Chitradurga and Tumkur districts of Karnataka will need Rs 30,000 crore over the next 30 years, the Supreme Court has been informed. Submitting a report detailing the plan of action for rehabilitation of the environment, the central empowered committee (CEC) said, "The project period is planned to be 30 years and the current financial year (2012-13) has been...

-Reuters Supreme Court has suspended Iron Ore transportation in western Goa and asked for a report into illegal mining in the state in four weeks, Justice Aftab Alam said on Friday. Goa state had already suspended mining activities there in September. The top court has asked the Central Empowered Committee to submit a report on illegal mining in Goa in four weeks, the judge added. Goa is the country's second-biggest Iron Ore producing...

-Outlook The Justice MB Shah Commission probing into the multi-crore mining scam today said most of the Iron Ore and manganese mines in Odisha would come under the purview of its investigation. "The commission will verify records and probe into all the Iron Ore and manganese mines allocated since 1952 whether closed or in operational stage," said U V Singh, the team leader and Principal Conservator of Forest in Karnataka. Stating that about...

-Outlook Goa government has constituted several teams to inspect and quantify the Iron Ore stacked at various points in the state before allowing it to be exported, a senior official said today. The state government, in its order dated September 10, had decided to allow only the already extracted and ready for transportation ore to be exported, thus discouraging fresh extraction. The teams comprising officials from the mines and forest departments and Goa...