October 2012 protest against AngloGold Ashanti’s La Colosa project
In an open letter to AngloGold Ashanti shareholders timed to coincide with the company’s May 13 AGM in South Africa, an alliance of organizations in Colombia list …
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Colombian community organizations call on AngloGold Ashanti to keep out of Tolima
Sick miners ask Anglo American for details of defence
THE long-awaited hearing in which 10 former Anglo miners with silicosis and silico-tuberculosis are seeking compensation began on Friday with an application to compel Anglo American to provide more details of its defence. The Legal …
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It’s nice to be important but it’s more important to be nice: lessons from the Anglo American AGM
Read a report on Anglo American’s AGM on 19 April – including concerns raised by community representatives from Alaska, Colombia and South Africa, and the company’s responses.
Anglo-American and the finance sector: exporting abuse
We need to be aware of the impact our government’s policies have well beyond our shores. Anglo-American, alongside BHP Billiton and Xstrata, owns Latin America’s biggest coal mine, the Cerrejón mine in Colombia. The mine …
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Stories of Resistance – community activists slam Rio Tinto, Anglo American
Watch video coverage of the event last Monday with community and worker representatives from Colombia, Mongolia, South Africa, the USA and West Papua.
Community activists in London to denounce British companies’ abuses abroad
This week activists from Colombia, Mongolia, South Africa and the USA are in London with a common purpose: to draw attention to abuses being perpetrated in their countries by Anglo American and Rio Tinto, two …
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Communities and mineworkers hit out at Rio Tinto, Anglo American
Communities from Colombia, Mongolia, South Africa and the US will demonstrate in London this week against some of the world’s largest mining companies, which they say are devastating the health of people, widely polluting the …
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Eskom must honour power deals – BHP
BHP Billiton expects South African power utility Eskom to honour deals that are letting the mining giant buy electricity for its smelters at just over half the cost of production, the company said on Wednesday. …
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“Get on your bike!” urges London Calling: lifting the lid on metal’s king of the road
An interview published in The Metals Report, 13 March 2013, is a “minefield” of speculation by two industry consultants on the future market for platinum group metals (PGMs).
But it’s more than that, raising fundamental …
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Protests at Graspan colliery in South Africa turn violent, seven injured
South African miner Shanduka Coal has reported that an unwarranted strike at the Graspan colliery east of Johannesburg, turned violent leaving seven people injured. The mine is partly owned by Glencore and witnessed nearly 250 …
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Silicosis class action bid filed against Anglo American
Lawyers representing gold miners suffering from the deadly lung disease silicosis said on Thursday they had filed a class action lawsuit application against the South African arm of global mining giant Anglo American.
The application …
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South Africa’s militant mine union shows new focus
The bloody first round of South Africa’s mine union turf war is over and the clear winner on the platinum belt is the Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union (AMCU).
From this position of strength, …
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