Twin Metals, a joint venture between Toronto-based Duluth Metals and London-listed Chilean mining company Antofagasta PLC, wants to build the copper-nickel-precious metals mine near Ely in northeast Minnesota. The company says it has already invested $350 million into the region. Minnesota Governor Mark Dayton announced strong opposition to a proposed sulfide mine that would result in acid mine drainage and a series of tailing ponds near Minnesota’s highly-visited Boundary Waters Wilderness Area.
Canadian junior Strongbow Exploration Inc announced on Friday the acquisition of the South Crofty tin mine in Cornwall. The Cornish mine which is under administration hasn’t operated in nearly two decades. Vancouver-based Strongbow (CVE:SBW) paid in the order of US$2m for 100% of the mining permission area which includes 26 former producing mines.
Jan Roberts, who has recently died, was one of the ‘ancestors’ of London Mining Network. She co-founded Partizans, which has spent the last three and a half decades holding Rio Tinto to account for its impacts on indigenous communities, mine workers and others. It was Partizans that called together a number of other organisations in London in autumn of 2006 to discuss what more could be done to hold London-linked mining companies to account – and the result was LMN. We mourn Jan’s death and honour her example.
Former gold miners and relatives of deceased ex-miners reach landmark settlement in legal battle against Anglo American South Africa Ltd and AngloGold Ashanti Ltd.
