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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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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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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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.
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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Watch video coverage of the event last Monday with community and worker representatives from Colombia, Mongolia, South Africa, the USA and West Papua.
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 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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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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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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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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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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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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