Indonesia’s leading mining advocacy organisation, JATAM, has deplored police violence used on protestors who demonstrated against an Australian iron ore project last month.
Claiming this to be just one example of the government “putting foreign …
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A weekend attack left two security guards injured but has not affected production, the company said.
See http://www.mineweb.com/mineweb/view/mineweb/en/page34?oid=89128&sn=Detail.…
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Five injured in renewed attacks at Freeport-Rio Tinto Grasberg copper/gold mine
A series of attacks have resumed near Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold’s Grasberg’s mine in Indonesia’s Papua Province. Five Freeport employees traveling by bus were …
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Gunmen fired last Wednesday at vehicles operated by U.S. mining company Freeport in Indonesia’s impoverished Papua province, injuring two guards and a policeman in the latest attack on the world’s largest gold mine, police said.…
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Seven years ago, the operations of Freeport-Rio Tinto at the world’s most controversial mine hit international headlines.
This wasn’t because of the massive toll in human rights and environmental abuses over the past three and …
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Rio Tinto board told at annual meeting they were ‘selling the family silver‘
Many private investors in Rio Tinto vented their anger at the mining group’s annual meeting in London over the board’s decision …
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Yesterday’s Rio Tinto AGM was full of dissatisfied shareholders, and not only the usual suspects.
Objections were raised to the proposed bailout by Chinalco, the level of executive pay, the clash of the AGM with …
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On April 15th, Rio Tinto plc holds its 2009 annual general meeting in London. Among the issues for which the world’s third biggest mining company should face opprobrium are: confirmed leakages of contaminated water from …
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