High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Mining scam in India (colloquially Indian mining scam) is a series of widespread scams in various ore-rich states of India, and has generated controversy, which spans encroachment of forest areas, underpayment of government royalties, conflict with tribals regarding land-rights. The spill-over of the effects of legal mining into problems such as Naxalism and the distortion of Indian democracy by mixed political and mining interests, has gained international attention.