Posts tagged "Anglo Gold Ashanti"

PICKET!! STOP LA COLOSA GOLD MINE

2pm on FRIDAY 14 OCTOBER at the Colombian Embassy at 3 Hans Crescent, London, SW1X 0LN. 

Nearest tube: Knightsbridge.

Organised by:

Colombia Solidarity Campaign

Movimiento 22

COLOMBIA, the second most BIODIVERSE country in the world, …
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Colombia to the Congo: Lust for Gold Threatens Environment & Human Rights

Nestled alongside the central range of the Andes lies the town of Cajamarca, Colombia, also known as la dispensa agricola de Colombia: literally Colombia’s agricultural larder. The fertile environs surrounding this settlement of twenty thousand …
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Human rights violations continue in Ghana’s mining sector

International humanitarian organization Oxfam America calls on Ghana’s government to address ongoing human rights violations in the West African nation’s mining industry.

The call to action comes after 23-year old Kwame Eric was shot to …
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Who will own South Africa’s mines?

Radical elements within South Africa’s ruling ANC have been campaigning for outright nationalisation of the country’s mines. In part-response,  Mines’ Minister Susan Shabangu, claims that securing a 26% “black ownership” (BEE) of the mining industry …
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Another shooting incident at AngloGold Ashanti Obuasi Mine in Ghana

There has been another shooting incident at the AngloGold Ashanti Obuasi Mine during which 23-year-old Kwame Eric of Binsere, near Obuasi, was shot by a detail of a private security organisation engaged by the Company. …
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Tanzania in talks with miners to raise gold export taxes

Tanzania’s government is in talks with mining companies to raise royalty payments on gold exports as well as negotiating other possible tax hikes. African Barrick Gold has four gold mines in Tanzania while Australia’s third largest …
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South African mineworkers wage war on economic injustices

Although several, pay-related,  gold mine strikes have just ended in South Africa, this doesn’t by any means mark an end to  struggles for elementary economic justice on the part of large numbers of workers. In …
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Colombia raises doubts on AngloGold’s La Colosa gold project

Doubts have been raised in Colombia about possible adverse environmental issues in relation to AngloGold Ashanti’s big La Colosa gold project

See http://www.mineweb.com/mineweb/view/mineweb/en/page103118?oid=132411&sn=Detail&pid=92730.

Colombia’s comptroller warns about AngloGold project

The use of water resources for …
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UK Parliamentary Question on AngloGold Ashanti in Colombia

(Hansard source (Citation: HC Deb, 20 July 2011, c1057W))

William Bain (Glasgow North East, Labour): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what representations he has made to his counterpart in …
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Please get your MP to sign EDM 2076 on AngloGold Ashanti in Colombia

LMN member group Colombia Solidarity Campaign is very concerned about the possibility of the largest open cast gold mine in South America being built at Cajamarca in Colombia.

If you live in the UK, please …
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La Colosa: the quest for El Dorado in Cajamarca, Colombia

New report from LMN member group Colombia Solidarity Campaign

Gold prices have surged in recent years. As a result of the ‘investor friendly’ climate promoted by the Colombian government’s ‘democratic security’ policies, multinationals have been …
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Colombian court kills recently passed mining laws

Colombia’s Constitutional Court has struck down strict mining regulations passed last year, but said the regulations will remain in effect for two years to give Congress time to draft and approve a replacement bill. This …
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