On Wednesday 1 December, in London, awards will be presented to those in the mining industry who have most impressed the world’s mining financiers. The Outstanding Achievement Awards are sponsored by industry publication the Mining …
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Vedanta and the Outstanding Achievement Awards
South African community opposes land takeover by Anglo American subsidiary
On 26 November 2010 the North Gauteng High Court in South Africa was due to hear an urgent application by members of the Sekuruwe Community for an interdict to stop Anglo American subsidiary Anglo Platinum’s …
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Indigenous Peoples in Latin America call for an end to destructive mining
On Tuesday, November 23, Indigenous Peoples from across Latin America released The Lima Declaration, a unified position calling for an end to large-scale surface mining by transnational companies on Indigenous Peoples’ lands. Indigenous representatives from …
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India: Yet more shenanigans linked to UK mining company
On November 12 2010, the Indian newspaper Orissa Diary published a report claiming that eight tribal and other NGOs had submitted a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) petition to the state’s High Court on behalf of …
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Orissa High Court rules Vedanta University land acquisition illegal and void
The proposed Vedanta University, India’s answer to Stanford and Harvard, suffered a blow after Orissa High Court ruled the land acquisition for the project in Orissa’s Puri town as illegal and void.
See http://www.minesandcommunities.org/article.php?a=10536.…
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Vedanta gives Modi’s aluminium plant offer a miss
Vedanta Resources does not seem interested in setting up an alumina refinery and an aluminium smelter in Gujarat. It has decided against an expression of interest (EoI) as invited by the state-owned Gujarat Mineral Development …
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Tiara residents suffer from mining contamination, Venezuela
“Something is sickening the people of Tiara and their crops”. That’s what the Mines and Communities website reported more than five years ago.
In 2008, a study showed that Anglo American‘s Lomas de Nickel …
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Management, union leaders dig in heels at Collahuasi
Union leaders at the world’s No. 3 copper mine dug in their heels on Thursday, saying workers would reject management’s latest offer to end a 14-day-old strike at the sprawling Collahuasi copper pit. The union …
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Chilean Hunger Strikers Surpass Day 50, Accusing Mine Company Of Contamination
Eight men and three women have been on a hunger strike for the last 53 days, since Sept. 28, to protest at the dangerous tailings dam situation affecting their community of Caimanes, located in the Coquimbo …
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Rio Tinto dodges State requirements in the USA
Rio Tinto, through its subsidiary Kennecott Minerals, continues to dodge requirements of Michigan’s Part 632 Mining Law, with the help of the Marquette County Road Commission (MCRC), the Marquette County and City Commissions, and local …
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