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About The Book: The book comprises selected critical reviews and specific case studies by distinguished geoscientist, mining and mineral engineers, and eminent authorities of the subject in countrydealing with environmental fallouts of mining, mineralprocessing, mineral based industries and possible remedial measures aimed at recuperation and preservation of the surrounding environment in Indian context. The book concerns the big growth in mineral industry and increasing public apprehensions regarding its irreversible impacts on the ecology, environment and socioeconomic, traditional and cultural fabric of the populace in the affected regions. CONTENTS: Foreword • Preface • Environmental Aspects of India's Mineral and Fuel Resource Development • Environmental Aspects of Mining Industry in India • Management of Environment in Mining Areas–The Scientific Approach • Minerals, Mines and Metals for Habitats–An Ecological Issue • Environmental Management in Opencast Mining–A Viewpoint • Environmental Issues Related to Development of Mineral Deposits • GeoEnvironmental Baseline Appraisal During Mineral Exploration For Modern Mine Planning–A Proposition • Pollution of the Environment and the Role of Geoscientist in the Coalfields • Environmental Issues World–wide and Those Specially Relevant to Petroleum Resource Development in India • Radiation Hazards in UraniumThorium Mining and Milling–A Review • Reclamation of Land Damaged by Mining in Hungary–An Experience • Legislative Measures to Control Land Degradation Due to Mineral Development–Special Reference to Indian Scenario • Exploratory Mining of Uranium Ores–Typical Problems with Special Reference to Ventilation, Dust and Health Surveys • Damage to Natural Surface Drainage in Jharia Coalfield Through Half of Century up to 1974 • Studies on Metallic Pollution of River Damodar Along Burnpur–Asansol–Raniganj Region • Pollution Load of Rivers Ganga, Damodar and Subarnarekha in Bihar • Nitrate Pollution of Groundwater in Vis