The Native American community has a long, troubled history with mining interests, and today that history is catching up with us in Arizona. From a new push for uranium mining at the Grand Canyon to …
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Mining and American Indians Still Don’t Mix
US House of Representatives gives Native territory to Rio Tinto
It’s “nothing more than an attempt to transfer American resources from the hands of the American public to foreign interests”.
That’s what a representative of the San Carlos Apache Tribe told the UN Permanent Forum …
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Resolution Copper seeks support by wielding checkbook
This article highlights the close relationship between BHP Billiton and Rio Tinto‘s Resolution joint venture in Arizona, and some US environmentalists.
The Arizona Audubon Society and the Nature Conservancy seem to have agreed not …
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San Carlos Apache call for removal of Resolution Copper
Representatives of the San Carlos Apache Tribe in the southwestern United States read out a statement at the recent meeting of the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues in New York. The statement concerned the …
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Rio Tinto: A Shameful History of Human and Labour Rights Abuses And Environmental Degradation Around the Globe
This document was prepared by the International Longshore and Warehouse Union in San Francisco, USA. A more up to date report is available at http://londonminingnetwork.org/docs/Rio-Tinto-background-information-2011.doc.
Reporting on the company’s 2011 AGM is available at …
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Rio Tinto Set to Make Off With $140 Billion in Public Mineral Wealth; Company and Plan Criticized
Rio Tinto, a company that has made its name exploiting public and indigenous mineral wealth for decades, is set to make off with an astounding $140 billion in publicly-held mineral rights, in Arizona, USA, for …
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Copper-bottomed market changes
London Calling on a copper conundrum which probably isn’t
We may be forgiven for failing to understand the forces which, over the past half year of the collapse of debt “securitisation”, have stimulated an increase …
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