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Saturday, December 20, 2025
TopicGold mines

Topic: Gold mines

Geomysore Services to begin full-scale production at private gold mine in Andhra Pradesh

The company said initial output will be around 500 kg a year, rising to nearly 1,000 kg annually once statutory clearances are secured. 

Centre sets ball rolling on residual gold extraction from Kolar Gold Fields 24 yrs after its closure

Mines ministry is fine-tuning modalities to auction nine tailing dumps at Karnataka’s Kolar Gold Fields. Worth of minerals in dumps estimated at Rs 25,000-30,000 crore. 

Brazil President Lula orders crackdown on supplies to illegal miners in Yanomami territory

The Brazilian President mandated numerous initiatives to fight illegal mining in the region, including blocking flights & river transport providing supplies to the wildcat miners.

Pakistani tycoons offer to take over disputed gold, copper mine in Balochistan

A tribunal in July ordered Pakistan to pay $5.8 billion in damages to global mining venture for denying them licence to develop Reko Diq mine in 2011.

Once India’s gold mine, this dejected Karnataka town is only remembered in election season

Thousands rendered jobless due to closure of mines in 2001, voters say political parties promise to re-open mines before every election, but never deliver.

On Camera

Henry George’s Single Tax offers a democratic alternative to communist remedies: DM Kulkarni

The immediate benefit of Single Tax would be to reduce the sale prices of land to nominal ones. Landowners would no longer find it profitable to keep idle lands, wrote DM Kulkarni in 1960.

China is taking India to WTO over subsidies, again. Here’s what it’s arguing before trade body

Dispute will now move to consultative process, which allows the two sides to come to an amicable agreement within 60 days.

Israel has ‘realised who its real friend is’, eyes defence expansion in India amid arms curbs by others

It is argued that India-Israel ties are moving from buyer–seller dynamic to one focused on joint development & manufacturing partnership, a shift 'more durable' than traditional arms sales.

Dhurandhar shows hard cinema is soft power and Pakistan is unapologetically the target

If Pathaan gave both conservatives and liberals room to hide, Dhurandhar extends no such courtesy. Aditya Dhar ripped open that tent of hypocrisy and turned the knife.