Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard’s ruling Labor party will debate lifting the ban on the sales of uranium to India at its conference next month, a decision unlikely to be welcomed by the Greens.
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Rio Tinto: what now for Alcan?
Analysis by Nostromo Research
Rio Tinto’s shutdown of its aluminium smelter at Lynemouth in Northumberland, in north east England, announced recently, marks the start of the company’s attempt to reap some dividend for, arguably, the …
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Australia Passes Landmark Carbon Price Laws
Australia passed landmark laws last week to impose a price on carbon emissions in one of the biggest economic reforms in a decade and injecting new impetus into December’s global climate talks in South Africa.…
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Papua: Freeport-Rio Tinto labour battles have no end in sight
Indonesian Police accused of accepting bribes
There’s no end in sight to the world’s biggest wages-related mining strike, as Freeport workers continue blockading (West) Papua’s Grasberg operations, following Indonesian police attacks that have already claimed …
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Gobi mega-mine puts Mongolia on brink of world’s greatest resource boom
Mongolia’s mining boom includes a vast coal mine at Tevan Tolgoi and Rio Tinto‘s Oyu Tolgoi copper and gold mine, which will provide some of the metal for the 2012 Olympic medals. New mega-mines …
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US House of Representatives gives Native territory to Rio Tinto
It’s “nothing more than an attempt to transfer American resources from the hands of the American public to foreign interests”.
That’s what a representative of the San Carlos Apache Tribe told the UN Permanent Forum …
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Lawsuit Revived Against Mining Giant Rio Tinto for War Crimes in Bougainville
A U.S. federal appeals court has revived a lawsuit accusing mining giant Rio Tinto of committing genocide and war crimes in Papua New Guinea, where it once ran one of the world’s largest copper and …
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Papuans struggle – and die – as mining conflict intensifies
There’s no sign that conflicts between trade unionists and the management of the world’s largest gold-copper mine are close to resolution. On the contrary, within recent days several more people have been murdered in Freeport-Rio …
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Alaska voters say no to gold, copper mine
Can a small local government hold back a large-scale development, despite much bigger political and corporate forces being ranged against it?
That’s the question facing voters in Southwest Alaska’s Lake & Peninsula Borough who last …
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Killing of anti-mining Italian priest condemned by environmental activists
Environmental activists under the Kalikasan People’s Network for the Environment condemned the recent killing of an Italian missionary active in opposing large-scale mining plunder, including by London-listed Xstrata, and advocating for indigenous people’s rights …
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Nuclear news
Rio outbids Cameco for Hathor Exploration
Rio Tinto is expanding its presence in Canada with an all-cash offer to acquire Hathor Exploration, which owns the Roughrider uranium deposit in Saskatchewan. See http://www.mining.com/2011/10/19/rio-outbids-cameco-for-hathor-exploration/.
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