Rio Tinto: divide and rule in the US Midwest
An excellent report on mining company strategy is now available at the Lake Superior Mining News. Teresa Bertossi’s very useful Mining for Public and State Approval: Corporate Strategies for Mining on Michigan’s Yellow Dog Plains is written very clearly and contains much information on Rio Tinto subsidiary Kennecott’s history in Wisconsin, what the company learned [...]
Activists opposing Anglo American subsidiary on trial in South Africa
Jubilee South Africa
National Office
Press Statement
25 May 2009
47 MINING ACTIVISTS IN SEKIMING, LIMPOPO ON TRIAL TODAY IN MOKOPANE (25 May)
Community activists from Jubilee Sekiming, near Mokopane Limpopo are on trial today and tomorrow. These activists were targeted and arrested in a crackdown on the community’s resistance to mining in their area as well as their resistance [...]
Landowners’ struggle against Implats
Impala Platinum (Implats) is the second largest producer of platinum after Anglo American subsidiary Anglo Platinum. Implats is listed on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange but has a subsidiary listing on the London Stock Exchange
Jubilee South Africa
National Office
Press Alert
LANDOWNERS STRUGGLE AGAINST THE BAFOKENG AND IMPALA PLATINUM
Rooidekraal, Near Sun City, North West Province, South Africa
23 May 2009, [...]
Appreciating mineral prices – and how they affect companies’ prospects
National currency appreciation in mineral-dependent states is conventionally “bad news” for mining companies, which are heavily reliant on exports priced in dollars. While fluctuations in exchange rates have, in recent years, often not had major impacts on companies’ fortunes and been dealt with fairly swiftly by national banks, the rising strength of Australian and Canadian [...]
Indigenous Lands Plundered in Mining, Oil and Gas Rush
UNITED NATIONS – Leaders of the world’s 370 million indigenous peoples who are attending an international meeting here this week say they want governments to stop oil and gas corporations from further extraction on their lands. “Much of the world’s untapped oil, gas and mineral wealth lies beneath indigenous lands,” said Victoria Tauli-Corpus, chairperson of [...]
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