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 [...]
Communities protest against British-based mining companies in South Africa
The press statement below mentions Richard Spoor. Richard Spoor is a human rights lawyer who has represented communities resisting encroachment on their land by mining companies. He is currently being sued for defamation by Anglo American plc subsidiary Anglo Platinum and by African Rainbow Minerals.
See http://londonminingnetwork.org/2010/02/anglo-platinum-hands-off-richard-spoor/.
Jubilee Mokopane, Limpopo
South Africa
Press Statement
18 February 2010
LIMPOPO COMMUNITIES DEMONSTRATE [...]
ANGLO PLATINUM: HANDS OFF RICHARD SPOOR!
Anglo Platinum is a subsidiary of London-based Anglo American
Jubilee South Africa PRESS ALERT, Date: 12/2/2010
COMMUNITY TO PICKET ON 15 FEB AT PRETORIA HIGH COURT!
ANGLO PLATINUM: HANDS OFF RICHARD SPOOR!
Community members from Limpopo will picket outside the Pretoria High Court on Monday, 15 Feb 2010. The community members have recently filed a legal case challenging Anglo [...]
Anglo American subsidiary stopped from removing school in South Africa
Jubilee South Africa
11 January 2010
Press Release
Anglo Platinum stopped from removing Seritarita School
In the Mapela region, Anglo Platinum is trying to forge ahead with its plans to relocate the Seritarita School, much against the wishes of the adjacent communities whose children attend the school and the communities around the relocation site some distance away.
Last week Anglo [...]
Unemployed march against Anglo American subsidiary
Jubilee South Africa
Press Statement
14 December 2009
Unemployed people from Mapela and Mokopane in Limpopo province will march to Anglo Platinum PPL mine tomorrow to highlight the lack of employment in and around the mine.
Anglo Platinum and other mining companies use the promise of employment as a key element of their strategy to divide communities so as [...]
