Rio Tinto is talking up its future prospects, in advance of its London annual general meeting next month.
A huge nickel mine is slated for Indonesia; the company is about to take over a vast …
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Blood and Iron: Rio Tinto heads to the top
Anglo American financial news
Anglo American beats earnings forecasts but stops short of reinstating dividends
The group posted a 51% drop in annual earnings per share on the back of weaker metal prices and said the resumption of dividend …
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Controversial Rio Tinto subsidiary Kennecott mine permits OK’d at 11th hour
Two days before the Michigan State Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) ceased to exist and a week after its director stepped down, DEQ moved to wrap up a long standing fight over permits for a …
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BHP Billiton isn’t putting another nickel in
Recently there’s been some speculation that BHP Billiton – the world’s biggest mining company – may be about to exit from nickel production.
In 2008, it pulled out of the Gag Island project in West …
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BHP Billiton sells stake in Philippine nickel project
BHP Billiton has pulled out of a $2 billion nickel project in the southern Philippines after selling its 40 percent stake to a local partner. The project was BHP’s only mining venture in the Southeast …
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Expanded alternative report on BHP Billiton
BHP Billiton, the world’s largest diversified resources company – producing oil as well as coal, copper, diamonds, iron ore, manganese, nickel, uranium and a number of other minerals – boasts of a strong reputation for …
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LMN Response to BHP Billiton over the alternative report, October 2009
BHP Billiton’s response to the ‘BHP Billiton: Undermining the Future – Alternative Annual Report 2009′ is wholly inadequate. BHP Billiton has a record of failing to respond to detailed criticisms of its operations. It simply …
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Protesters pounce on mining giant’s AGM
BHP Billiton had its Australian AGM picketed by protesters. But inside the meeting the chairman of BHP Billiton, Don Argus, did not seem interested in the environmental issues. He was saying that governments have to …
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Rio Tinto drops exploration plans in Iron County, Michigan
Rio Tinto, the London-based mining company whose subsidiary Kennecott Eagle Minerals has sought to develop a nickel sulphide mine near Marquette, Michigan, USA, has withdrawn a request to prospect for minerals on public forest land …
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At It Again: Rio Tinto Tries Busting California Miners’ Union
Regardless of whether it’s true or not, Rio Tinto always seems to know what to say. Rio Tinto boasts to the public, gullible politicians and job hopefuls in Michigan that the company is doing well …
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BHP Billiton challenged at AGM
Another year – and another BHP Billiton AGM, held in London on October 29 2009. This year the company more than ever boasted of its continual march to world domination (or at least, domination of …
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Philippines: mining or food?
Philippines: Working Group on Mining comments on company responses to “Mining or Food?” report
BHP Billiton declines to comment.
See http://www.business-humanrights.org/Documents/MiningorFood.…
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