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 five leading UK-listed mining groups – Rio Tinto, Vedanta, Anglo American, Xstrata and BHP Billiton – has found the number [...]
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 result of a strike at the Spence mine in Chile that cost the company some 28,000t and an incident at [...]
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 planned nickel sulphide mine by concluding that only buildings may be considered “places of worship” and that therefore a rock [...]
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 will not destroy residential areas, as originally thought. In October, the Salt Lake Tribune reported that the tailings dam could [...]
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 what is expected to be North America’s largest copper mine, run by subsidiary Resolution Copper. BHP Billiton also holds a [...]
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