Posts tagged "Mexico"

Mexican communities reject London-listed Hochschild Mining

In Mexico, communities are resisting the mining plans of a small London-listed company, run from Peru.

See film We Have Everything And Lack Everything at http://upsidedownworld.org/main/mexico-archives-79/2956-we-have-and-need-everything-in-mexico-community-police-resist-mining-companies.

See company wesbite at http://www.hochschildmining.com/content/index.php.…
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Goldcorp ups 2010 exploration budget to US$145mn due to El Morro, Camino Rojo – Chile, Mexico

Vancouver-based Goldcorp has revised up its 2010 exploration guidance budget to US$145mn from the originally announced US$130mn.

See http://www.bnamericas.com/news/mining/Goldcorp_ups_2010_exploration_budget_to_US*145mn_due_to_El_Morro,_Camino_Rojo/178535547.

Goldcorp is a Canadian company but among its major investors are British-based AXA Investment Managers …
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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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CAFOD and Goldcorp

Goldcorp is a Canadian company but among its major investors are British-based AXA Investment Managers UK Ltd (US$4.3 million), Blackrock Commodities Income Trust plc, and City Natural Resources High Yield Trust PLC, according to the …
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Canadian mining firms face abuse allegations

Canadian mining companies are facing allegations of abuse and assault on local citizens in dozens of developing nations…In Ottawa…a House of Commons committee…will continue debating a Liberal private member’s bill designed to put controls on …
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Asarco bidding battle enters final strait

Just one more hurdle faces Grupo Mexico, before it’s allowed to take over one of the world’s biggest copper companies, the bankrupted Asarco.

There’s still a prospect that Vedanta Resources will pip the Mexican miner …
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