What is the London Metal Exchange – and who dominates its trading? The London Metal Exchange (LME) is currently in the news. Like London’s fledging and failed PLUS stock exchange, it’s “up for sale”. Whoever buys the LME will likely not...
London Calling says it must! In February 2012, the PLUS markets group plc announced it would be selling its stock exchange, PLUS-SX. Set up six years ago in London as a “halfway house for small companies between staying private and getting a quote on AIM”,...
“Temporary and subcontracted workers in the copper industry are the slave labour of the 21st century. Lacking rights and social protection, they are vulnerable and defenceless,” complained Cristián Cuevas, the leader of a union for outsourced Chilean...
According to a new survey by the accountancy firm, Ernst & Young, over half the companies they contacted in India are willing to provide “entertainment” to win business. Sixty percent of Indonesian firms are also ready to make cash payments in order to...
London Mining plc (no connection with London Mining Network) has projects in Sierra Leone, Colombia and Greenland. Representatives of London Mining Network attended the AGM on behalf of colleagues at the National Movement for Justice and Development in Sierra Leone,...
Large stretches of salmon-spawning streams and thousands of acres of wetlands would be wiped out if a large-scale mining project were to be built in southwestern Alaska’s copper-rich Bristol Bay region, according to a report issued recently by the Environmental...
