October 2012 protest against AngloGold Ashanti’s La Colosa project
In an open letter to AngloGold Ashanti shareholders timed to coincide with the company’s May 13 AGM in South Africa, an alliance of organizations in Colombia list …
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October 2012 protest against AngloGold Ashanti’s La Colosa project
In an open letter to AngloGold Ashanti shareholders timed to coincide with the company’s May 13 AGM in South Africa, an alliance of organizations in Colombia list …
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Read a report on Anglo American’s AGM on 19 April – including concerns raised by community representatives from Alaska, Colombia and South Africa, and the company’s responses.
Colombian community activist Julio Gomez, representing FECODEMIGUA, an alliance of communities displaced by the Cerrejon coal mine, attended the AGM of Anglo American yesterday. Watch a 3-minute video interview at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GnjVAI-SBp8.…
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We need to be aware of the impact our government’s policies have well beyond our shores. Anglo-American, alongside BHP Billiton and Xstrata, owns Latin America’s biggest coal mine, the Cerrejón mine in Colombia. The mine …
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Watch video coverage of the event last Monday with community and worker representatives from Colombia, Mongolia, South Africa, the USA and West Papua.
This week activists from Colombia, Mongolia, South Africa and the USA are in London with a common purpose: to draw attention to abuses being perpetrated in their countries by Anglo American and Rio Tinto, two …
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Communities from Colombia, Mongolia, South Africa and the US will demonstrate in London this week against some of the world’s largest mining companies, which they say are devastating the health of people, widely polluting the …
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A new study reveals that governments in Latin America have returned to natural resources extraction to fuel development—while paying scant attention to the impact mining, oil exploration and other activities have on the environment or …
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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…

The environmental authority of Tolima has ordered multinational gold miner AngloGold Ashanti to stop its controversial activities in a central Colombia village, saying it broke rules on mining exploration and water use.
The company’s mining …
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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.
The multinational gold mining company, AngloGold Ashanti, has taken legal action against a small town in central Colombia after its citizens allegedly prohibited the mining company’s employees’ freedom of movement.
The Colombian branch of the …
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