Copper, Gold and Salmon
There’s a vast supply of valuable metal in Alaska just waiting to be mined, but doing so could spell environmental disaster for the area’s salmon population. A major discovery of gold, copper and a metallic ore called molybdenum have been scoped out via exploratory drills near Bristol Bay, Alaska. If unearthed, they are estimated to [...]
Anglo American challenged at AGM: full report
Anglo American was challenged at its April 22 AGM in London on a range of issues including a legacy of sickness among former miners in South Africa, removals of communities by subsidiary Anglo Platinum in South Africa and part-owned Cerrejon Coal in Colombia, a defamation case against the lawyer representing residents in some of the [...]
Protest the Pebble Mine
Sign the Petition telling mining giant Anglo American that you oppose its disastrous Pebble Mine scheme in Alaska. Rio Tinto also has a minority stake in the project. See https://secure.nrdconline.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=1781.
Pebble Project among most important North American mining opportunities
Updated Mineral Resource Estimate Confirms the Pebble Project as North America’s Most Important New Copper-Gold-Molybdenum Development Opportunity Northern Dynasty Minerals Ltd announces that the Pebble Limited Partnership (“PLP” or the “Pebble Partnership”) has provided an updated mineral resource estimate for southwest Alaska’s Pebble Project, confirming it as one of the world’s most significant undeveloped copper-gold-molybdenum [...]
Major US conservation group joins Alaska anti-mine campaign
The Pebble Mine project near Bristol Bay is jointly (50/50) owned by Anglo American and Northern Dynasty Minerals (in which Rio Tinto has a 19.6% stake). Six months ago, a delegation of native Alaskans and commercial salmon fisherpeople visited Anglo American’s London AGM, calling for a halt to this copper-gold mine project, whose consequences they [...]
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