Metals found in everyday electronics items, such as mobile phones and computers, are being mined illegally in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and funding a conflict that has caused millions of deaths, said …
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Metals in mobile phones financing brutal war in Congo
Golden Opportunity or False Hope?
AngloGold Ashanti’s proposed gold mine in the Democratic Republic of Congo
New report from CAFOD and South Africa’s Benchmarks Foundation
AngloGold Ashanti is a South African company with a secondary listing on the London Stock …
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Guinea regime says it will audit global miners
Recently, the government of DR Congo announced results of an audit of mining contracts signed with the former military regime, mostly by foreign companies. Arguably, it took the return of a fragile democracy (though certainly …
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Largely unexplored rainforest slated to be levelled for gold mining in Colombia
Serrania de San Lucas is a rainforest-covered massif rising to 2,300 metres (7,500 feet) in northern Colombia. Despite being little-explored and containing several endangered species, the forest is threatened by industrial gold mining operations, according …
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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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