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Job title: Communications coordinator Organisation: London Mining Network Location: Finsbury Park, north London Salary: £21,840 (total) Contract: Permanent, PAYE employee Hours: 21 per week (days are flexible) Holiday: 17 days (total) London Mining Network works with...
PRESS RELEASE: New report names top British companies responsible for toxic mining legacies
For immediate release 19/02/20 BHP and Rio Tinto have a long history of extracting minerals then pulling out, leaving devastation in their wake. Climate justice organisation London Mining Network reveals the extent of this in a new report. London Mining Network has...
‘It is not drought, it is looting’: the Chilean community taking on Anglo American
Chilean activist Javiera Martinez writes about residents of the town of El Melón, who are occupying a well to protest a British mining company’s diversion of essential drinking water ‘It is not drought, it is looting’ is the slogan that movements in Chile are using in...
‘Wasn’t Mariana enough? Marking one year since Brumadinho
“On 25 January 2019 I lost my father and my friends. Many family members worked and work for mining companies. We have tried to make an inventory of our collective losses but nothing can measure our feelings and our suffering. Everywhere I go I carry with me 272...
PRESS RELEASE: London vigil to mark first anniversary of Brumadinho disaster
For immediate release: 22/01/20 Events around the world are being organised to mark first anniversary of Brumadinho’s catastrophic mining disaster, in the context of a rising culture of corporate impunity in Brazil On 25th January 2019 near the Brazilian town of...
LMN and the Global Tailings Review
After the catastrophic tailings dam collapse at Brazilian mining company Vale's iron ore mine at Brumadinho on 25 January 2019, the Church of England and Swedish state pension funds started to gather data on existing mine waste tailings dams by sending out a...
Anniversary vigil for Brumadinho mining disaster
Friday, 24 January 2020 from 16:00-18:00 Embassy of Brazil, 14-16 Cockspur Street, London SW1Y 5BL On 25 January, 2019, a catastophic tailings dam collapse took place at the Brumadinho iron ore mine operated by Brazilian multinational Vale (in which a number of UK...
Chile’s Copper for the Chilean People
For a new constitution making Chile a sovereign state not subordinated to foreign powers By Chilean authors Javiera Martinez and Fernando Toro, and Andy Higginbottom Before the social explosion in Chile in October 2019, the country was immersed in discussing the...
REPORT: Speculative mining in Spain
Read a new report by Spanish grassroots organisation Ecologistas en Accion, Speculative mining in Spain. In the last five years Spain has seen a large increase of new open pit mining projects. This acceleration has been justified by the need for minerals and scarce...
Press release: GCM postpones AGM citing ‘security’ concerns
Phulbari Solidarity Group PRESS RELEASE 17th December 2019 For immediate release British mining company GCM Resources has postponed tomorrow's London AGM due to security risk from protests. In Phulbari, Bangladesh, protests today blocked roads demanding the Bangladesh...