LMN statement on IRP GRO 2024

LMN statement on IRP GRO 2024

On 1 March 2024, the International Resource Panel (IRP) launched an update of its  2019 Global Resources Outlook (GRO) report. The report covers the increasing demands for metals and minerals, which will of course mean more mining. Here is LMN’s statement on the...
12 March – Rejeitos (Tailings): Film screening

12 March – Rejeitos (Tailings): Film screening

In recent years, two mining tailings dams broke in the state of Minas Gerais, causing Brazil’s worst ever socio-environmental disasters. Hundreds were killed, millions were affected. Communities were displaced and two main rivers became mud, flooding the...
14 March – Resisting Mining Book Club: The Bauxite Strike

14 March – Resisting Mining Book Club: The Bauxite Strike

LMN is delighted to announce our second Resisting Mining Book Club of 2024 with guest speakers Matthew Quest and Ryan Cecil Jobson, who will be speaking about Eusi Kwayana’s classic work The Bauxite Strike and the Old Politics (AK Press, 1972) and its resonance for...
We’re Taking London Metal Exchange to Court

We’re Taking London Metal Exchange to Court

Last week, London Mining Network (supported by the Global Legal Action Network (GLAN)) have filed a landmark legal action at the UK High Court against the London Metal Exchange (LME or Exchange). We’re arguing that, by enabling the global sale of ‘dirty metals’,...