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Coal mine, The expression 'no person, other than the Central Government or a government company or a corporation owned, managed or control in India, in any form' is semantically sweeping and is wide in meaning so as to spare no class of coal, including even coking coal, because coking coal is a species of coal, coal itself being the genus. A definition of 'coal mine' in the Coal Mines (Nationalisation) Act, 1973. S. 2(b) of the Act defines coal mine to mean 'a mine in which there exists one or more seams of coal'. It is apparent that even a coking coal mine is a coal mine because the definition is broad, Mahindra Nath Shukla v. State of Bihar, (1980) 3 SCR 595: (1980) 3 SCC 353: AIR 1980 SC 1308 (1311). [Coal Mines (Nationalisa-tion Act (26 of 1973) s. 2 (b)]The (English) Coal Mines Act 1911, (1 & 2 Geo. 5, c. 50), repealing and reenacting, with alterations, a great part of the existing law, and itself amended by the (English) Coal Mines Act, 1914 (4 & 5Geo. 5, c. 22), contains a set o...
Mine
Mine [fr. mwyn or mwy, Wel., fr. maen, a stone], an excavation or cavern in the earth; an excavation made for the purpose of getting coal or other minerals.The inspection and regulation of mines other than coal mines is provided for by the Metalliferous Mines Regulation Acts, 1872 and 1875. As to the corresponding provisions in the case of coal mines, see COAL MINES.Coal mines only were rateable under 43 Eliz. c. 2, but the Rating Act, 1874 (37 & 38 Vict. c. 54), has made all mines rateable.Neither mines under railways [see (English) Railways Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845 (8 & 9 Vict. c. 20), ss. 77-85], nor under waterworks [see (English) Waterworks Clauses Act, 1847 (10 Vict. c. 17), ss. 18-27], pass to the respective companies, unless expressly purchased. See also (English) Mines (Working Facilities and Support) Acts, 1923, 1925, and 1934; the (English) Coal Mines Act, 1926 (c. 17), and the (English) Mining Industry Act (c. 28). By the (English) Coal Mines Regulation Act, 1908, as...
Mining lease
Mining lease, means for the purposes of the (English) Law of Property Act, 1925, a lease for mining purposes, that is, the searching for, winning, working, getting, making merchantable, carrying away, or disposing of mines and minerals, or purposes connected therewith, and includes a grant or licence for mining purposes [s. 205 (1) (xiv.), ibid.].'Mining lease', according to s. 3(d) of 1948 Act, means a lease granted for the purpose of searching for, winning, working, getting, making merchantable, carrying away or disposing of minerals or for the purposes connected therewith and includes an exploring or a prospecting license. 'Mining lease', according to Rule 3(i) of 1949 Rules means a lease to mine, quarry, bore, dig and search for, win, work and carry away any mineral specified therein. s. 3(c) of 1957 Act defines 'mining lease' to mean a lease granted for the purpose of undertaking mining operations and includes a sub-lease granted for mining operations, Gujarat Pottery Works v. B.P...
Cost-book mining companies
Cost-book mining companies. The statutory regulations relating to these Companies are contained in the Stannaries Acts, 1869 (32 & 33 Vict. c. 19) and 1887 (50 & 51 Vict. c. 43), and the Companies Act, 1929. The Latter Act (s. 357) has preserved the then existing provisions of the earlier Acts. Subject to the statutory provisions, it maybe said that these companies are formed thus:-A number of adventures, who have obtained permission from the landowner to work a lode, assemble; they decide on the number of shares into which their capitalis to be divided, and the number to be allotted to each; they appoint an agent, commonly called a purser, for the purpose of managing the affairs of the mine, and enter in a book, called the cost book, the minutes of their proceedings, which are signed by all present. A license to try for ores, for twelve months, or some short period, is then obtained; followed, if the search be promising, by a set, that is, a lease of the minerals, or a license to ding...
Gold-mines
Gold-mines, a branch of the ordinary revenue of the kingdom. By 1 W. & M. st. 1, c. 30, and 5 W. & M. c. 6, amended by 55 Geo. 3, c. 134, it is enacted that no mines of copper, tin, iron, or lead shall be looked upon as royal mines, notwithstanding gold or silver may be extracted from them in any quantities; but that the sovereign, or persons claiming under his authority, may have the ore (other than the tin ore in Devon and Cornwall) at a price stated in the Act.As to the transfer of gold and silver mines in the County Palatine of Durham to the Crown, see 6 & 7 Will. 4, c. 19 and 21 & 22 Vict. c. 45...
Mining operations
Mining operations, means any operations undertaken for the purpose of winning any mineral. [Mines and Minerals (Development and Regulation) Act, 1957 (67 of 1957), s. 3 (d)]Mining of operations and 'winning of minerals' The expression 'winning of mineral'in the definition of 'mining operations' is spacious enough to comprehend every activity by which the mineral is extracted or obtained from the earth irrespective of whether such activity is carried out on the surface or in the bowels of the earth, Shri Shri Tarakeshwar Sio Thakur Jiu v. Bar Dass Dey & Co., AIR 1979 SC 1669: (1979) 3 SCC 106....
Selectively mined
Selectively mined, wolfram ore is always selectively mined in the technical terminology. The expression 'selectively mined' means that the wolfram ore is detached and taken out from the rock in which it is embedded and this is done by crushing the rock and sorting out pieces of wolfram either by hand or by washing or magnetic separation. The selective mining is not manufacturing process. The important test is that the chemical structure of the ore should remain the same, Minerals and Metals Trading Corporation of India Ltd. v. Union of India, AIR 1972 SC 2551 (2553): (1972) 2 SCC 620: (1973) 1 SCR 997....
deep mined
taken from an undergrround mine as contrasted with coal obtained from a strip mine as deep mined coal...
Mines
Mines, Amount of cash subsidy receivable from the erstwhile Coal Board established under s. 4 of the Coal Mines (Conservation and Safety) Act, 1952 falls within the definition of 'mines' in s. 2(h)(xii), New Satgram Engineering Works v. Union of India, AIR 1981 SC 124: (1980) 4 SCC 570....
Royal mines
Royal mines, gold and silver mines; the Crown has a right of pre-emption of any gold or silver found in mines of copper, tin, iron, or lead, by virtue of 1 & 2 W. & M. sess. 1, c. 30, s. 4; 5 & 6 W. & M. c. 6; and 55 Geo. 3, c. 134....
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