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Mineral development, scientific exploitation of minerals without waste is undoubtedly as part of mineral development as envisaged by the MMRD Act and the rules framed thereunder, Premium Granites v. State of Tamil Nadu, (1994) 2 SCC 691: AIR 1994 SC 2233 (2248). [Mines and Minerals (Regulation and Development) Act, 1957, s. 15]...
Minerals
Minerals, means all substances which can be obtained from the earth by mining, digging, drilling, dredging, hydraulicking, quarrying or by any other operation and includes mineral oils. [Mines Act, 1952, s. 2(jj)]This term may include all substances of commercial value which can be got from beneath the earth, either by mining or quarrying, except common clay [Glasgow v. Farie, (1888) 13 App Cas 657], or sandstone (N.B. Ry. v. Budhill Coal and Sandstone Co., 1910 AC 116); but china clay is a mineral (G.W. Ry. v. Carpalla China Clay Co., 1910 AC 83). See also Waring v. Foden, (1932) 1 Ch 276.By the (English) Law of Property Act, 1925, s. 205 (1) (ix.), mines and minerals include any strata or seam of minerals or substances in or under any land and the powers of working and getting the same, but not an undivided share thereof.Minerals would include minor minerals unless minor minerals are expressly excluded or the context otherwise requires, D.K. Trivedi & Sons v. State of Gujarat, AIR 19...
Minor mineral
Minor mineral, the expression 'minor mineral' as defined in s. 3(e) includes 'ordinary clay' and 'ordinary sand'. If the expression 'minor mineral' as defined in s. 3(e) of the Act includes 'ordinary clay' and 'ordinary sand', there is no reason why earth used for the purpose of making bricks should not be comprehended with in the meaning of the word 'any other mineral' which may be declared as a 'minor mineral' by the Government. The word 'mineral' is not a term of art. It is a word of common parlance, capable of a multiplicity of meanings depending upon the context, Banarsi Dass Chadha v. Lt. Governor, AIR 1978 SC 1587 (1588): (1978) 4 SCC 11. [Mines and Minerals (Regulation and Development) Act, 1957 (67 of 1957), s. 3(e)]Means building stones, gravel, ordinary clay, ordinary sand other than sand used for prescribed purposes, and any other mineral which the Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, declare to be a minor mineral. [Mines and Minerals (Developmen...
Atomic minerals
Atomic minerals, means the minerals included in atomic minerals specified in Part B of the First Schedule to the Mines and Minerals (Development and Regulation) Act, 1957 (67 of 1957) Offshore Areas Mineral (Development and Regulation Act, (17 of 2003), s. 4(b)]...
Slime
Slime, is the term used in milling practice to describe a suspension, in water of the fully divided fraction of pulverized ore; also solid, whether suspended or after setting out to drying, Handbook of Mineral Dressing (at p. 1504); see also National Mineral Development Corpn. Ltd. v. State of Madhya Pradesh, (2004) 6 SCC 281.Means a material of extremely fine-particle size encountered in ore treatment (ASG Gloss), National Mineral Development Corpn. Ltd. v. State of Madhya Pradesh, (2004) 6 SCC 281.Means a mudlike substance formed of ore in an almost impalpable powder, mixed with water: usually plural (Standard 1964) National Mineral Development Corpn. Ltd. v. State of Madhya Pradesh, (2004) 6 SCC 281.Means a product of wet grinding containing valuable ore in particles so fine, as to be carried in suspension by water; chiefly used in the plural (Webster 3d); see also National Mineral Development Corpn. Ltd. v. State of Madhya Pradesh, (2004) 6 SCC 281.Means in metallurgy, ore reduced ...
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...
Reconnaissance operation
Reconnaissance operation, means any preliminary geo-scientific survey undertaken for the purpose of searching or locating mineral deposits. [Offshore Areas Mineral (Development and Regulation) Act, 2002, s. 2(4)]Means any operations undertaken for preliminary prospecting of a mineral through regional, aerial, geophysical or geochemical surveys and geological mapping, but does not include pitting, trenching, drilling (except drilling of boreholes on a grid specified from time to time by the Central Government) or sub-surface excavation. [Mines and Minerals (Development and Regulation) Act, 1957, s. 3 (ha)]...
Mineral and minor mineral
Mineral and minor mineral, The word 'mineral' is not a term of art. It is a word of common parlance, capable of a multiplicity of meanings depending upon the context. The expression 'minor mineral' as defined in s. 3(e) includes 'ordinary clay' and 'ordinary sand'. If so, there is no reason why earth used for the purpose of making bricks should not be comprehended within the meaning of the word 'any other mineral' which may be declared as a 'minor mineral' by the Government, Banarsi Dass Chadha and Brothers v. Lt. Governor, Delhi Administration, AIR 1978 SC 1587 (1588): (1979) 1 SCR 271: (1978) 4 SCC 11. [Mines and Minerals (Regulation and Development) Act, 1957, s. 3(e)]...
Regulation
Regulation, has been defined as a rule or order prescribed for management or governance, Corpus Juris Secundum (Vol. 76, p. 615).Regulation, includes regulation, Constitution of India, Art. 13(3)(a).Means a rule or order prescribed for management or governance. As a matter of fact the regulation has to be interpreted in the context in which it is used and not dehors the context, and thus regulation also includes a power to levy, Saurashtra Cement and Chemical Industries v. Union of India, AIR 2001 SC 8. [See Constitution of India, Sch. 7, List 1, Entry 54; Mines and Minerals (Regulation and Development) Act, 1957, s. 2]Means the regulations made by the council under s. 40. [Maharashtra State Council for Occupational Therapy and Physiotherapy Act, 2002, s. 2(r)]The expression 'regulation' in a given case may amount to prohibition, Talcher Municipality v. Talcher Regulated Market Committee, (2004) 6 SCC 178 (181). (Orissa Municipalities Act, 1950)The act or process of controlling by rule...
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....
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