Australia’s uranium industry is a minor contributor to employment and the economy, a major source of domestic and international risks and is overdue for an independent inquiry into its effects on the environment, health, safety …
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Australian uranium industry’s poor record demands inquiry
Eskom must honour power deals – BHP
BHP Billiton expects South African power utility Eskom to honour deals that are letting the mining giant buy electricity for its smelters at just over half the cost of production, the company said on Wednesday. …
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Cambodia: BHP accused of corrupt deal with Cambodia’s prime minister
In May 2010, the world’s largest mining company, BHP-Billiton, was accused of bribing the Cambodian government four years earlier, by shelling out US$3.5 million which never appeared on government books – and didn’t result in …
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Ok Tedi mine a curse
Papua New Guinea’s Minister for Environment and Conservation, John Pundari, broke his silence on the Ok Tedi mining pollution issue, describing it as a “curse” on the Fly River people of Western province. He says …
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Strike ends at Cerrejon, then coal train bombed
Workers in the SINTRACARBON mining union have come to an agreement with Cerrejon Coal, owned by Anglo American, BHP Billiton and Xstrata. Shortly after the strike ended, there was a bomb attack on the railway taking coal to the export terminal. Click on photo for more…
Mining giant faces probe over Olympics hospitality
Australia’s Fairfax Media reported that the US Department of Justice and the Australian Federal Police were investigating allegations that BHP provided inducements, hospitality and gifts to Chinese and other foreign officials.
The US Justice Department …
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South Africa’s militant mine union shows new focus
The bloody first round of South Africa’s mine union turf war is over and the clear winner on the platinum belt is the Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union (AMCU).
From this position of strength, …
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Mining bosses face jail over safety in Western Australia
MINING bosses and managers face jail if a worker dies on their mine site or oil rig, under options being investigated by the Western Australian Government.
It is also considering fines linked to how much …
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Cerrejon Miners’ Strike in Colombia: talks restart with company
Talks have restarted between Cerrejon coal, owned by London-listed Anglo American, BHP Billiton and Xstrata, and mine workers’ union SINTRACARBON. There has been massive public demonstrations in support of the workers.
With blood in the water, mining’s great white shark is on the hunt
Beheadings are putting the mining world through something akin to the French Revolution.
Mining bosses who landed their jobs in the bubble era – 2006 and 2007 – or did their signature top-of-the-market deals in …
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The great mining CEO purge
Just how much capital do you have to misallocate — to use the management euphemism du jour — to be fired as a mining CEO these days? We are not even past February and just …
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The Colombian mining locomotive has halted
President Santos of Colombia continues to preach the virtues of what he calls the “mining locomotive” of the economy, based mainly on coal, nickel and gold. But this is met with resistance.
In El Cesar …
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