RIO Tinto has joined the growing ranks of major miners lured to Papua New Guinea. It did not make any grand announcements on the matter but has picked up at least three tenements.
See http://www.pngindustrynews.net/storyview.asp?storyid=8682927§ionsource=s0…
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A new report on the world’s “most controversial” mining firms has named and shamed ten companies, after comparing their performance against the UN Global Compact and other environmental, social and governance principles. The report from …
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There’s nothing new in the assertion that mining brings jobs, services and general socio-economic development to local communities. This argument appeared to win the day at the 2002 World Summit for Sustainable Development in Johannesburg …
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Some NGOs receive funds from Canadian government and mining companies to legitimize and promote mining as a good form of “development”.
•World University Service of Canada (WUSC) is partnered with Rio Tinto Alcan, owned by …
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Resistance by Pakistan’s Baluchistan provincial government to a mine proposal, submitted by UK-listed Antofagasta and Canada’s Barrick, seems to have succeeded. But this decision may open the way for Chinese companies to successfuly bid …
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Pakistan’s Baluchistan provincial government has re-iterated its opposition to a major copper-gold project, being touted by UK-listed Antofagasta and Canada’s Barrick Gold. Among its objections are a claim that the two companies have failed to …
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Toronto’s leading newspaper, The Globe and Mail, has published a lengthy examination of the activities of the world’s second biggest gold miner in the east African state of Tanzania.
Its report – while giving …
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The election of Michael Sata to president of Zambia is not sitting well with copper miners who fear the 73-year-old, known as “King Cobra” for his aggressive style, will pick the pockets of mining companies, …
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Papua New Guinea (PNG) has a fresh government. And it’s brought with it a “baptism of fire” in the shape of radical proposals to change the country’s existing minerals legislation. A new law would grant …
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In a report published on July 19, the Argentine branch of the environmental group Greenpeace charged that operations by the Toronto-based Barrick Gold Corporation in the Andes at the border with Chile had already significantly …
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London-listed Chilean company Antofagasta and Canada’s Barrick Gold are likely to win mining rights for a $3.3 billion copper and gold project in Pakistan, a senior provincial government official said. The companies are partners in …
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The Swedish government’s Ethical Council monitors company investments by the country’s four state pension funds. Among its prime targets are several resource extraction companies, including Rio Tinto and Freeport (because of their waste disposal practices …
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