If the Swiss-based, London-listed company bids for the world’s third-largest platinum producer, it could signal an end to its hostile pursuit of Anglo American. The mining world’s great white shark – Xstrata PLC – is …
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Rebuffed by larger rival, Xstrata eyes Lonmin
Canadian mining industry waits on fate of bill
With another session of the Canadian Parliament starting up this week, Canadian resource executives will be casting an uneasy eye away from their mining developments and toward the halls of Ottawa. This is the session …
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Nuclear power – Undermining climate protection
New report from Greenpeace
There is a clear scientific consensus that we must halve global carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions by 2050 or suffer changes to the global climate with catastrophic consequences. Avoiding the most severe …
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After protests, U.N. raps Peru on tribal rights
Peru is violating the rights of indigenous people by failing to secure their consent before energy companies drill on their lands, the United Nations said… Its report was issued three months after clashes between police …
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World Metal Production Surges
The Worldwatch Institute has produced a new report on metal production.
In 2008, more than 1.4 billion tons of metals were produced globally-double the quantity of the late 1970s and more than seven times as …
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Miners take up the carbon challenge – but only for themselves
Fear that adverse geo-physical events may negatively impact on mining operations is nothing new. Many of the world’s biggest mines are in earthquake or monsoon-prone regions. When the tsunami hit southern Asia in 2004, miners …
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Rio Tinto’s Bougainville Copper hit by $22m tax bill
A Papua New Guinea court has found Rio Tinto majority owned Bougainville Copper Limited (BCL) must pay the PNG tax office 50 million kina (A$22 million) in taxes, penalties and interest under ‘pay now, litigate …
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Rio Tinto: bargaining in Beijing
Chinese authorities now appear to have settled for charging Rio Tinto staff with bribery, rather than espionage against the state. This is in relation to allegations, made early in July, against the “Stern Gang” – …
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Potentially toxic ship gets docked by UK watchdog
For the first time, Britain’s Environment Agency has prevented an ocean-going vessel leaving home waters, to be scrapped overseas. There are suspicions that the tanker might be heading outside the European Union, or to a …
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Coal, uranium and disabling illnesses
India’s generation of children crippled by uranium waste
Observer investigation uncovers link between dramatic rise in birth defects in Punjab and pollution from coal-fired power stations
Their heads are too large or too small, their …
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