‘Green Gold’ fair trade inspires anti-mining advocates
What could make the world’s staunchest critics of commercial mining pause and evaluate a mechanism that could bring the status of small-scale gold producers at par with corporate mines? The International Women and Mining Network (RIMM or Red Internacional Mujeres y Mineria) explored Latin America’s 2010 experiment with a Fair Trade Artisanal Gold Standard or [...]
Criminalized and threatened, women stand their ground against the Goldcorp mine in Guatemala
The San Marcos highlands like the rest of the country of Guatemala are almost entirely covered by mineral claims and concessions. According to the Commission for Peace and Ecology (COPAE) of the Diocese of San Marcos, the Marlin mine, which opened in 2005, uses 250,000 litres of water per hour, which is equivalent to what [...]
Bougainville Women oppose re-opening of Panguna Mine
According to the CEO of Bougainville Copper, a subsidiary of Rio Tinto, the Panguna mine is to re-open within the next five years. His words were a direct contradiction of the words spoken by Rio Tinto Chairman Jan du Plessis at the company’s London AGM on 15 April. The Bougainville Indigenous Women Landowner Association (BIWLA) [...]
Women’s group opposes reopening of Bougainville mine
Women representing an indigenous landowner’s group on the Papua New Guinean island of Bougainville say they’re opposed to reopening the mine that was at the centre of a bloody civil war. Local anger towards the Panguna copper mine was at the heart of the civil war that gripped Bougainville during the 1990s. The mine was [...]
Women sue BHP Billiton mine in Canada for discrimination
Two women who say they suffered harassment and gender discrimination while training to work at the Ekati diamond mine in the Northwest Territories have launched a $10-million lawsuit against the mine owners and their trainers. Diane Taylor and Laura Lorenzen have named BHP Billiton, Procon Mining and Tunnelling, and the N.W.T. Mine Training Society in [...]
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