While it may only be a formality, Rio Tinto’s $US302 million purchase of another two per cent of Ivanhoe Mines finally cements its control of the group and its prize asset, the giant Oyu Tolgoi …
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Rio firms up a pipeline jewel
Mining threatens herders in Mongolia: report
Mining in southern Mongolia is threatening the livelihoods of herders and straining water supplies, a report said recently, as foreign companies race to exploit the country’s rich mineral deposits. Mongolia has opened up it vast …
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Canadian Rio Tinto lockout nears one month
On January 1, 2012, Rio Tinto’s aluminium subsidiary Alcan locked out 780 members of United Steelworkers at its smelter and refinery in Alma, Québec. The company refuses to negotiate limits on contract work.
See http://www.minesandcommunities.org/article.php?a=11463&l=1…
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Calling all foreign radicals!
UK Tar Sands Network comments on the Canadian government’s attack on tar sands opponents as ‘enemies of the state’.
See http://www.no-tar-sands.org/2012/01/calling-all-foreign-radicals/.…
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Huge victory: Obama kills Keystone tarsands pipeline
Barack Obama rejected the controversial Keystone tar sands pipeline last Wednesday, making good on a promise not to give in to a Republican ultimatum on the project.
See http://www.no-tar-sands.org/2012/01/huge-victory-obama-kills-keystone/.
Rio Tinto Initiates Lockout in Canada
Rio Tinto Alcan, an aluminium-production unit of Anglo-Australian mining giant Rio Tinto, locked out about 800 union workers at a Quebec smelter.
See http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203550304577136533843111036.html.
Rio Tinto wraps up Hathor takeover
Rio Tinto Ltd has taken complete ownership of Canadian uranium company Hathor Exploration. Rio on Thursday said it had compulsorily acquired a remaining 7.9 million shares not voluntarily offered after it made a $C654 million …
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Radicals working against oilsands, Ottawa says
Environmental and other “radical groups” are trying to block trade and undermine Canada’s economy, Natural Resources Minister Joe Oliver said Monday.
Oliver’s comments came one day before federal regulatory hearings began on whether to approve …
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IACHR’s lenience towards Goldcorp is criticised by NGOs
Goldcorp is a Canadian company. Among its major investors are British-based AXA Investment Managers UK Ltd., Blackrock Commodities Income Trust plc and City Natural High Yield Trust plc.
The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR), …
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DRC dispute disentangled: ENRC and FQM agree settlement
London listed miner, Eurasian Natural Resources Corporation Plc (ENRC) and Canada’s First Quantum Minerals Ltd (FQM) have resolved a rumble in the jungle with a US$1.25bn settlement for disputed mining assets in the Democratic Republic …
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Is Greece now desperate enough to allow gold mining?
When investors hear the word “Greece” these days, they usually run for cover. But Eldorado Gold Corp. had the opposite reaction, as the austerity and economic misery actually made the country a more attractive place …
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