The 800 lb gorilla of heavy metal contamination in Utah is the Rio Tinto copper mine and smelter. In the Rio Tinto dust cloud that frequently obscures our mountains is a heavy metal stew of lead, arsenic, cadmium. and mercury that ultimately permeates our air, water,...
For a little over a decade, multinational mining companies have been scouring the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, looking for economic deposits of precious metals, uranium, and other minerals. Rio Tinto is the first company to receive permits to mine under...
Indonesia will not be righting the perception that it’s a tough place for miners after the country’s supreme court said it will not hear Churchill Mining’s appeal in its two-year legal battle to get compensation for a coal project that the company...
A new report by Human Rights Watch (HRW) accuses the Indian government of “encouraging lawlessness by failing to enforce the law or even monitor[ing] whether mine operators are complying with it.” Although, according to the Report, Indian law does include...
As people in Greece fight austerity in the streets, top officials are pushing open pit mining as a way out of the country’s economic despair. But just as folks in Greece have taken action against an imposed economic paradigm, they are taking a stand to protect...
The country’s Human Rights Commission is investigating the action by armed police between April 16-18 in Bumbuna, 15km from African Minerals’ Tonkolili mine, which left one woman dead and at least six injured. See...