Posts tagged "South Africa"

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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Coal of Africa shares jump on Vele licence decision

Shares in Coal of Africa jumped as much as 21 percent last Wednesday after South Africa lifted the suspension of a key licence at its Vele colliery, allowing the miner to press ahead with plans …
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Kyrgyzstan Horsemen Attack Gold Mine

At around midnight on Friday, 10 horsemen charged into the exploration camp and set fire to outbuildings, said Talas Copper Gold, a joint venture between the British company Orsu Metals and South African miner Gold …
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Colombia to the Congo: Lust for Gold Threatens Environment & Human Rights

Nestled alongside the central range of the Andes lies the town of Cajamarca, Colombia, also known as la dispensa agricola de Colombia: literally Colombia’s agricultural larder. The fertile environs surrounding this settlement of twenty thousand …
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South Africa gold miners sue Anglo American

Former gold miners in South Africa are suing industry giant Anglo American in the London High Court for allegedly damaging their health, their lawyers say.

The ex-workers contracted lung diseases because of bad ventilation in …
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Move Beyond Coal, Now

The coal industry is racing to ensure its place in our world’s future before safer, healthier and cheaper clean energy takes hold.

Ill-equipped to compete and survive in the emerging clean energy economy it must …
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Protests against Platreef in South Africa

LIMPOPO COMMUNITY & JUBILEE MOKOPANE STOP THE OPERATION OF 27 PROSPECTING RIGS OF PLATREEF RESOURCES TODAY 30 AUG 2011

URGENT ALERT ISSUED BY JUBILEE MOKOPANE (JUBILEE SOUTH AFRICA)
30 August 2011, 13h30
Contact: Phillipos Dolo …
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Rio Tinto ups Ivanhoe stake 2% to 48.5%

By exercising its right to acquire shares in the exploration company led by Robert Friedland, Rio Tinto upped its stake to 48.5% and, under the current deal between the two companies, can boost the stake …
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Who will own South Africa’s mines?

Radical elements within South Africa’s ruling ANC have been campaigning for outright nationalisation of the country’s mines. In part-response,  Mines’ Minister Susan Shabangu, claims that securing a 26% “black ownership” (BEE) of the mining industry …
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World No. 1 platinum miner raises pay offer as union threatens strike

Anglo American Platinum has, according to South Africa’s National union of Mineworkers, raised its pay offer to workers in attempt to ward off threatened strike action.

See http://www.mineweb.com/mineweb/view/mineweb/en/page35?oid=133851&sn=Detail.…
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South African mineworkers wage war on economic injustices

Although several, pay-related,  gold mine strikes have just ended in South Africa, this doesn’t by any means mark an end to  struggles for elementary economic justice on the part of large numbers of workers. In …
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BHP Billiton weighs legal options after Eskom ruling

Mining group BHP Billiton was on Friday still considering the contents of a South Gauteng High Court ruling, which ordered that State-owned power utility Eskom should release information and records relating to electricity sales contracts …
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