On 5 November 2015, the Fundão tailings dam, operated by Samarco, a joint venture between Vale and BHP, burst in Mariana, Minas Gerais. More than 40 million cubic metres of toxic mining waste tore through communities, killing 20 people and contaminating the Rio Doce...
This blog is a collaboration between LMN and cosmopolíticas in Brazil. On 5 November 2015, the catastrophic failure of the Fundão dam operated by Samarco Mineração S.A. – a joint venture between BHP owning 50% and Vale S.A. 50% – unleashed around 45...
Join us for the sixth session in the InSAF India and London Mining Network 12-part webinar series, Deadline or Death Sentence: State Violence and Indigenous (Adivasi) Peoples’ Resistance in India. Watch previous sessions here. Session 6 | Scripting State Violence and...
As the UK government prepares to launch a new Critical Minerals Strategy, which will seek to secure supplies amidst a global mineral rush, communities on the frontlines of Britain’s mining ambitions speak out. Obtaining so-called critical minerals is...
Event Date : November 20, 2025 at 6:00 PM | Events
LMN is delighted to announce our sixth and final Resisting Mining Book Club of 2025 with guest speaker Megan Black, who will be speaking about her book The Global Interior: Mineral Frontiers and American Power (Harvard University Press, 2018). About the book When one...
