Opponents of Anglo American subsidiary to be sentenced
Jubilee South Africa Press Statement 30 August 2010 Sekiming activsts who stood up to Anglo Platinum and its Section 21 company will be sentenced on 1 September 2010. Sixteen community members in Sekiming have been convicted of “public violence” related to a community protest against Sekiming Section 21 company members and a contractor [...]
Anglo American: is the mega-miner running out of ideas?
Top mining executives may be plain shy of joining an overburdened Cynthia Carroll as Anglo American continues its internal remodelling. Has Anglo American, the transnational miner, run short of ideas over its continuing remodeling, a process that has been underway for more than a decade? Its latest move may be a sideways one, in the [...]
Anglo American subsidiary under fire again in South Africa
Press Release from the Bench Marks Foundation, http://www.bench-marks.org.za/ Anglo Platinum employee accused of disrupting community meeting The Bench Marks Foundation has expressed its concern suggesting that an employee of Anglo Platinum was instrumental in preventing a meeting of the relocated Magobading community from taking place last weekend. The community meeting was to have happened on [...]
Anglo American challenged at AGM: full report
Anglo American was challenged at its April 22 AGM in London on a range of issues including a legacy of sickness among former miners in South Africa, removals of communities by subsidiary Anglo Platinum in South Africa and part-owned Cerrejon Coal in Colombia, a defamation case against the lawyer representing residents in some of the [...]
Two analyses of developments in the mining industry by Barry Sergeant of Mineweb
Both articles analyse the relative strengths and weaknesses of companies across set time-frames. The first of them deals with how much companies have returned to investors over the last decade of the so-called ‘super-cycle’. Note BHP Billiton led by returning almost $30 billion to shareholders, followed by Ango American at $20 billion. The second reviews [...]
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