For years, the wastes from burning coal and producing copper have enjoyed a second life, used in sand-blasting to remove paint, rust and grime from ship’s hulls, storage tanks, bridge trusses and ...

THOOTHUKUDI: In spite of the guidelines issued by the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) directing the removal of copper slag dumped across various sites in Thoothukudi, several impending legal ...

Kochi: Mining giant Vedanta said its copper business unit is in talks with Kerala government to use copper slag from its Tutucorin smelter as a partial replacement for river sand and m-sand in the ...

The Sterlite copper smelting plant in Thoothukudi has indiscriminately dumped 5,37,765 tonnes of copper slag in various places including the banks of Uppar river, even though various research papers ...