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  Go, Gold, Goa: Researchers find traces of gold in iron ore deposits

  India | February 20, 2022 10:28 IST

  Mining exploration for iron ore in Goa began in the Portuguese era, when a cash-trapped Portuguese empire allocated mining leases to its colonial subjects in Goa for the purpose of exploration and export.

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  Apex court allows 20 million tonnest iron ore mining a year in Goa

  April 21, 2014 17:05 IST

  New Delhi: The apex court has allowed annual cap of 20 million tonnes of iron ore excavation in Goa.The Supreme Court has said there will be no grant of lease for mining around one km

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  SC mulls appointing panels to look into iron ore mining in Goa

  October 30, 2013 22:45 IST

  New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Wednesday said it may consider constituting one or two panels for looking into various aspects of iron ore mining in Goa including fixation of annual cap over the volume

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  Digambar Kamat was aware of illegal mining: Shah commission

  Politics | September 08, 2012 16:08 IST

  Panaji, Sep 8: Former Goa chief minister Digambar Kamat and two key bureaucrats have been indicted by the Justice M.B. Shah Commission, which has established a Rs.35,000 crore iron ore mining scam in the state.Justice