by Richard | May 12, 2020 | News
Press release from Ecologistas en Acción One of the main environmental Spanish NGOs, Ecologistas en Acción, has warned that Atalaya Mining, the company operating Riotinto copper mine in Spain, has mislead its shareholders by announcing that a long-standing legal suit...
by Richard | Apr 23, 2020 | News
Amadiba Crisis Committee members, Xolobeni, South Africa There has been a huge amount in the mining press recently about the impacts of COVID-19 on the mining industry. In some places, mines are being closed; in others, miners are being isolated on mine sites so that...
by Richard | Apr 16, 2020 | News
The UK government’s response to the COVID-19 health crisis has meant that company AGMs are even more controlled by the companies’ Boards and even less accountable than usual. Rio Tinto’s AGM this year was a hole-in-the-corner affair, with the minimum...
by Richard | Mar 16, 2020 | News
In recent weeks, Dom Vicente Ferreira, Catholic Bishop of Brumadinho in Brazil, was in Europe speaking about the continuing impacts of the catastrophic tailings dam collapse there in January 2019, which killed 272 people. The iron ore mine at Brumadinho is owned and...
by Richard | Mar 12, 2020 | News
New death threats have been issued against LMN’s friends in indigenous Colombian organisation Fuerza de Mujeres Wayuu (Wayuu Women’s Force). Fuerza de Mujeres Wayuu has been heavily involved in the struggle for justice in the face of the environmental...
