Illegal Mining News Today

The legal proceedings involving Mr Charles Bissue, the former Secretary to the Inter-Ministerial Committee on Illegal Mining IMCIM, have been reassigned to a new judge and postponed to July 2, 2024 .

Recent reports indicate that the presence of Brazilian miners in the Venezuelan Amazon is growing following a government offensive in Brazil.

The Jharkhand High Court has ruled that the Deputy Commissioner-cum-District Magistrate is not a competent authority to order the confiscation of a commercial vehicle. Justice Rajesh Kumar presiding...

Cracking down on illegal mining activities, two separate joint raids conducted on Thursday have led to the seizure of mining equipment and vehicles in Patiala. The first raid, executed in Darwa village, saw the confiscation of four tipper trucks and one earth-moving machine. Simultaneously, another raid was conducted, which led to the registration of a case at Sadar Patiala police station under the same sections. During this operation, four tipper trucks, three excavators, and six tractors were ...

This year till now, Himachal Pradesh Police have seized 256 vehicles involved in illegal mining while in 2023, 94 vehicles were seized in the corresponding time period

Russian authorities have conducted raids on four major "illegal" data centers in Siberia, resulting in the seizure of over 3,200 cryptocurrency mining rigs.

Police arrested a Zimbabwean man who was caught with equipment suspected of being used for illegal mining in Sabie on Tuesday.

Nominal Index [Citations: 2024 LiveLaw (Jha) 1-54]Rahul Yadav @ Hari Kumar Yadav, vs. The State of Jharkhand & Anr 2024 LiveLaw (Jha) 1Gautam Kumar Banarjee vs. Dr. C.P. Vidyarthi & Anr 2024 LiveLaw...

The businessman and the mining officer are accused of causing loss to the state exchequer of crores of rupees through illegal mining in 2022-23.

A fine of Rs 140.60 crore is proposed to be imposed on Shukla and three others under the Madhya Pradesh Minerals (Prevention of Illegal Mining, Transport and Storage) Rules 2022 for this illegal mining, the officials said. Besides Shukla, the other respondents in the notice are his brother Rajendra Shukla, president of the Eden Garden Housing Cooperative Society Limited, and Baroli village resident Meharban Singh Rajput, they said.