Alternative Report on world’s biggest mining company
BHP Billiton, the world’s largest diversified resources company – producing oil as well as coal, copper, diamonds, iron ore, manganese, nickel, uranium and a number of other minerals …
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BHP Billiton: undermining the future
More shootings at Freeport Rio Tinto’s Grasberg mine in Indonesia
A weekend attack left two security guards injured but has not affected production, the company said.
See http://www.mineweb.com/mineweb/view/mineweb/en/page34?oid=89128&sn=Detail.…
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Fresh conflict around Freeport-Rio Tinto mine in West Papua
Five injured in renewed attacks at Freeport-Rio Tinto Grasberg copper/gold mine
A series of attacks have resumed near Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold’s Grasberg’s mine in Indonesia’s Papua Province. Five Freeport employees traveling by bus were …
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More civilians murdered at Freeport – Rio Tinto’s mine in West Papua
Gunmen fired last Wednesday at vehicles operated by U.S. mining company Freeport in Indonesia’s impoverished Papua province, injuring two guards and a policeman in the latest attack on the world’s largest gold mine, police said.…
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BHP unties a reef knot; questions remain
The world’s biggest mining company is selling a nickel refinery whose ore has come from an allegedly highly-polluting Indonesian mine.
A Queensland University research study claims that the mine’s tailings are smothering one of the …
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Indonesia investors eye BHP Billiton coal project
JAKARTA (Reuters) – About four Indonesian investors are interested in taking over a coal project owned by BHP Billiton Ltd (BHP.AX), a senior government mining official said. BHP Billiton said on June 9 month that …
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Mine murders in West Papua: new evidence points to cover-up
Seven years ago, the operations of Freeport-Rio Tinto at the world’s most controversial mine hit international headlines.
This wasn’t because of the massive toll in human rights and environmental abuses over the past three and …
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Freeport rejects modest environmental motion
In view of the enormous destruction being wreaked on people and the environment by Freeport-Rio Tinto’s mining operations in West Papua, proposing the company appoint an “environmental expert” to its board doesn’t sound earth-shattering. Indeed, …
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Rio Tinto investors vent fury at $20bn Chinalco stake
Rio Tinto board told at annual meeting they were ‘selling the family silver‘
Many private investors in Rio Tinto vented their anger at the mining group’s annual meeting in London over the board’s decision …
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Rio Tinto attacked from all sides
Yesterday’s Rio Tinto AGM was full of dissatisfied shareholders, and not only the usual suspects.
Objections were raised to the proposed bailout by Chinalco, the level of executive pay, the clash of the AGM with …
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Rio Tinto goes naked into the shareholders’ chamber
On April 15th, Rio Tinto plc holds its 2009 annual general meeting in London. Among the issues for which the world’s third biggest mining company should face opprobrium are: confirmed leakages of contaminated water from …
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