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Foreign gold mining companies in Ghana regularly seize people's land, pollute the environment and violently suppress those who oppose them, according to a new report by a human rights team at the University of Texas School of Law. The report concentrates on exposing...

Management at Chile's Doña Ines de Collahuasi copper mine is still working on a proposal to be offered to striking workers who may want to return to work by the end of the week. Collahuasi, which produced 535,000t of copper in 2009, is controlled by London-listed...

The local operations of Xstrata Copper, a subsidiary of London-listed Xstrata, saw exports increase 19.5% to 165,700t. Exports from Anglo American Chile's northern operations - the Mantos Blancos and Mantoverde mines - jumped 42.3% to 152,500t. However, its central...

A class action suit has been filed in Canada against a domestic company, accused of complicity in one of the worst recorded atrocities of the recent bloody conflicts in DR Congo. It is alleged that, in 2004, Anvil Mining (then listed on the Australian stock exchange)...

Introduction by mining researcher Roger Moody “This sends a very strong message to those who seek to rob countries of their natural resources”. Thus declared John Scanlon, Secretary-General of CITES, following   INTERPOL’s  presentation of its “Environmental Crime...

In the Phulbari area of Northwest Bangladesh, communities have come together to raise their voices against the proposed Phulbari Coal Project, which threatens to turn this fertile agricultural region into an open-pit coal mine.  If implemented, the mine would have...

A global energy think tank has urged nations to stop subsidising fossil fuels as soon as possible. See http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-11718304?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

UK bank HSBC has been accused in the USA, along with JPMorgan, of manipulating silver prices. See http://www.winonapost.com/stock/functions/VDG_Pub/detail.php?choice=39230&home_page=&archives=.

Carmen Mejía works courageously to defend the human rights of marginalized Mayan communities in Guatemala. Her life is at risk because she has dared to speak out about a controversial gold mine and the impacts that local people have denounced. The Marlin Mine is...

Communities, Provinces, and States around the world are seeking to ban Uranium Mining. For a collection of declarations on the subject, see http://www.uranium-network.org/.