Posts tagged "ICMM"

ICMM accepts new members

The London-based International Council on Mining and Metals includes numerous companies about whose activities LMN member groups are deeply concerned. (See http://www.icmm.com/members/member-companies.)

ICMM is now ‘delighted’ to welcome a French uranium mining company being …
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ICMM presents its 2009 Annual Review

The industry-based International Council on Mining and Metals has released its 2009 Annual Review, Making a difference, which is the first review since ICMM underwent a comprehensive strategic review of the organization’s direction and …
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How Sustainable Is ‘Socially Responsible’ Mining?

In the ten years since the mining industry has gone “responsible,” have things really improved for local communities–or has the industry’s PR just got better? (Mentions Vedanta, Monterrico Metals).

See http://www.thenation.com/doc/20100301/kennard?rel=emailNation.…
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The Big and the Small

Millions of workers around the world depend on income from small-scale mining. Three new reports examine how their economic survival can be promoted, but they come from different perspectives.

The industry body, ICMM, regards …
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Nineteen mining firms commit to poverty reduction – ICMM

Nineteen mining companies, one of them China-linked, have agreed to use their combined influence to reduce poverty and foster development. All members of the London-based International Council on Mining and Metals (ICMM), the 19 said …
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ICMM presents new guidance note on mining and human rights

Mining industry organisation International Council on Mining and Metals (ICMM) has published “Human Rights in the Metals and Mining Industry: Overview, Management Approach and Issues”, the first in a line of publications which, it says, …
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Tanzania Mining Industry: Revenues, Resentment and Overregulation?

Tanzania’s young mining industry has grown at an astounding rate since liberal mining legislation was introduced in the late 1990s to attract investment. But against the background of tense relations between mining companies and locals, …
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