by Richard Solly, Co-ordinator, London Mining Network One of Antofagasta’s main claims to fame is the enormous El Mauro tailings dam above the small town of Caimanes in northern Chile, a town of some 1600 people (or 2000 if you include the mining company’s...
“Mining is going on a hundred metres away. When they started blasting, all the dust was brought to our vegetable gardens. Vegetables got covered with the coal dust, which is impossible to wash out. Now I don‘t want to harm myself by eating anything from this garden,”...
From Cape to Cairo – Rhodes` vision of the conquest of Africa. He got as far as Northen Rhodesia , modern day Zambia, and through his agent and companies influenced mining development as far as Katanga now in DRC. by Kerima Mohideen and Richard Harkinson One Sided...
On the 9 October, as part of global #ReclaimPower mobilisations, London Mining Network and other groups in London held an action tour in Central London, stopping at various companies and government agencies that are enabling and financing dirty energy projects around...
JOINT MEDIA RELEASE 28 September 2015 Voices from the Global South stand in solidarity with UK groups to oppose English opencast mines. Representatives of fifty groups from twenty-two countries who are opposing coal mining and working for...