SCALE (2)1574
ACT:
Constitution of India, 1950: Article 32 Limestone
quarries- Dehradun Mussoorie belt-Public interest litigation
against pollution- High Powered Committee ... bring
about natural normalcy in the Doon Valley.
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Forest (Conservation) Act 1980: Limestone guarries in
Doon Valley-- Continuance of mining activity--
Impermissibility Of.
Public Interest
manufacturing project at
Chhatak in Bangladesh, which inter-alia has a captive
limestone mine of 100Ha located at Phlangkaruh, Nongtrai,
East Khasi Hills District ... India and Government of Bangladesh.
There is no other source of limestone for LSCL except for the
captive limestone mine situated at Nongtrai, East Khasi
years (with a clause for renewal) in respect of
certain limestone quarries situated in Khasi and Jaintia
Hills. In addition to the rents and royalties ... grant for this area
any lease, permit or prospecting licence regarding limestone
to any other party except with a condition that no limestone
should
produce of animals, and (iv) peat, surface soil, rock, and minerals (including limestone, laterite, mineral oils and all products of mines or quarries);
"Gujarat
petitioner, he had applied for a quarry lease for extracting limestone as a minor mineral to be used in kilns for manufacture of lime used ... necessary formalities obtained possession of the area and started extraction of limestone.
3. The respondent No. 3, M/s. M. P. Lime Works, submitted
been carrying on business in the produc-
tion and supply of limestone since 1920, and under an
agreement entered into with the Bengal Iron Company ... supplying all its requirements of limestone and dolomite.
Sometime later the Indian Iron and Steel Company took over
all the assets and liabilities
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14A--Appellants manufacturing mixture of gases containing
carbon dioxide by burning limestone with coke in lime--Using
only the carbon dioxide from the mixture ... Deputy
Chief Chemist of the Central, Revenue Control Laboratory,
these manufacturers bum limestone with coke in a lime kiln
with a regulated amount
dated 21.6.1957.] (vi) [ as respects iron ore, limestone, manganese and gold mines, covered by the notification of the Government of India in the Ministry
granted by the Goverment of Saurashtra to Nanji Kalidas Mehta for quarring limestone form certain areas of land. This mining leases was obtained by Nanji ... value for the purpose of carrying on quarrying oprations and started extracting limestone form the leased area form April, 1958. The plant and machinery which
metamorphic rocks capable of taking polish,
formed from the re-crystallization of limestones or dolomit-
ic limestones and are distinguised from limestone by even
visibly ... letter dated October 14, 1988 explains now the
sample tested was limestone, different from marble. The
sample tile tested and attested by Dr. Sethna