Rio Tinto expects to reap massive profits from its new diamond venture at Bunder in Madhya Pradesh State in India. And it sees its work there as a model of good practice. But a recent …
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Rio Tinto: what it says and what it really does in India
Rio Tinto – a record fit for the Olympics?
Updated background briefing on the impacts of Olympic medal metal provider Rio Tinto’s mining operations around the world.
Rio Tinto and the 2012 Olympic Medals
Rio Tinto is providing the metal that will go into making all 4,700 gold, silver and bronze medals at the 2012 London Olympic and Paralympic games.
Metal for the medals will come from the company’s Bingham Canyon (Kennecott) mine in Utah, USA, and its Oyu Tolgoi mine in Mongolia, where major concerns exist over air and water pollution, deadly health impacts, water scarcity and indigenous rights.
Rio Tinto: are they telling us the whole truth?
People from communities directly affected by Rio Tinto’s activities around the world, people who work with those communities, and experts on the operations of the company, have contributed to a background report which London Mining …
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CORE publishes briefing on UK company reporting
Over the last six years, developments in UK law on company non-financial reporting requirements have proven particularly challenging to follow. Beck Wallace has just produced for CORE a short briefing which attempts to provide an …
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An introduction to coal mining
London Mining Network has produced an introductory briefing on coal mining, dealing with its impacts on farming communities, Indigenous Peoples, water, air and human health.
It calls for a just, planned transition away from coal and the creation of …
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Everything you wanted to know about nukes but were afraid to ask
Anti-Nuke Fact Sheets Galore
Nukes and Climate Change
Radioactive Waste
Radiation
Alternatives
And much more!
Introduction to Anglo American plc
This website contains links to a large number of articles about Anglo American plc, which can be viewed at http://londonminingnetwork.org/tag/anglo-american/.
The related Mines and Communities website (http://www.minesandcommunities.org/) contains a much larger number …
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Briefing on the health and environmental hazards of uranium mining
This technical briefing by Inge Lindemann summarises the impacts of uranium mining on human health and the environment and makes a compelling case for leaving uranium in the ground.
To download the twelve page Word …
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Clean Coal? It’s an illusion!
“Carbon capture and storage” (CCS) is one of the prime “end of pipe” solutions being peddled around the world, supposedly to cope with the egregious impacts of burning coal. However “clean” may be a consignment …
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