Six people were wounded Sunday in a shooting ambush near US company Freeport McMoRan’s massive gold and copper mine in Indonesia’s eastern Papua region, police said. Three policemen and three mine workers were hurt in …
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Six wounded in ambush near Freeport-Rio Tinto mine in West Papua
Balochistan halts $3.5bn copper project
Despite the relative poverty of the Pakistani province of Balochistan, the local authorities have decided that the proposed Reko Diq mine will not make things better. The company involved, Antofagasta plc, while controlled by Chilean …
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UK Government to promote investment in coal mining in Orissa, India
Taking note of the industrialisation boom and Orissa’s fast-paced economic growth, the UK has begun to explore trade and investment opportunities in the State. It has identified sectors like metals and minerals, mining, advanced engineering, …
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Union, Contract Workers Continue Fight for Work Rights at Cerrejón in Colombia
The struggle continues for trade union rights for contract workers at Colombia’s vast mining complex, Carbones del Cerrejón. ICEM mining affiliate Sintracarbón has been fighting to organize the contract workers at the mine. ICEM is …
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Miners’ efforts fail to cut death toll
The leading UK-listed mining companies have failed to bring down the number of fatalities at their operations over the past five years in spite of considerable efforts to do so. A Financial Times survey of …
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Spence strike, Olympic Dam drop BHP Billiton’s copper output 12% in recent quarter
Anglo-Australian mining and resources giant BHP Billiton reported its copper production slipped 12% to 271,100t in the three months ended December 31, the second quarter of the company’s 2010 fiscal year. The drops were a …
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Controversial Rio Tinto subsidiary Kennecott mine permits OK’d at 11th hour
Two days before the Michigan State Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) ceased to exist and a week after its director stepped down, DEQ moved to wrap up a long standing fight over permits for a …
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Report: Kennecott Tailings Dam Still Public Safety Threat
While not the vindication that Rio Tinto subsidiary Kennecott wanted, a company-funded report released on the danger of Kennecott’s massive 5,700 acre tailings impoundment, north of Magna, Utah, says the tailings dam may fail, but …
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Rio Tinto Set to Make Off With $140 Billion in Public Mineral Wealth; Company and Plan Criticized
Rio Tinto, a company that has made its name exploiting public and indigenous mineral wealth for decades, is set to make off with an astounding $140 billion in publicly-held mineral rights, in Arizona, USA, for …
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Legal cases which may act as helpful examples
There is no direct London connection to the cases considered below, although Copper Mesa Mining Corporation, formerly Ascendant Copper, did in the past have an agreement with Rio Tinto which may have seen the London …
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Zambian copper output to rise in 2010
Copper output is rising in Zambia again, but whether that will benefit the country or its people is a moot question. To quote the independent economic analyst in this article: “Agreements with the mines should …
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