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The National Union of Mineworkers (NUM), which represents 64% of the country's mine workers, served gold producers with a notice today announcing they will start a strike from the nightshift of Sept. 3 after that sector’s wage talks broke down. In a statement, the...

Anglo American Platinum (Amplats) is moving forward with massive job cuts promised at the beginning of the year: Nearly 7,000 South Africans working for the world's largest platinum producer will be out of work come September. In January the company had warned these...

The CEO of Russia's largest potash producer, London-listed Uralkali, was arrested last week after being invited to a meeting with the Belarusian prime minister, in an escalation of the rift between the Russian miner and its former partner Belaruskali. Media reports...

OPPOSITION to re-opening of the mine at Panguna by the Autonomous Bougainville Government is slowly gaining momentum in Central Bougainville. Many community leaders feel that this is not the time to talk about mining. Meanwhile, the ABG [Autonomous Bougainville...

Efforts of Vedanta Aluminium Limited (VAL), belonging to London-listed Vedanta Resources Plc, to mine bauxite ore in Niyamgiri hills in Odisha received a severe blow on Monday with the 12th palli (gram) sabha also voting against mining there. This is the first time an...

Within a week of receiving final approval from the Goa bench of the Bombay High Court, Vedanta group firms, Sesa Goa and Sterlite Industries announced that their merger scheme, together with several other group firms, has now become effective. In a joint statement,...

The Banjima people of Western Australia's Pilbara region have won a Native Title claim covering over 10,000sqkm after a 15-year court battle. The Native Title claim was brought to an end when a Federal Court handed down its decision to award the rights of the land to...

Rio Tinto's Oyu Tolgoi mine A Rio Tinto Classic: Trade Union Rights violation and dismissal of thousands in Mongolia Mass dismissals have taken place at Rio Tinto operations in Mongolia at OT LLC and in Madagascar at QMM. IndustriALL strongly condemns the company’s...

The dramatic coastline of Cornwall in southwest England is dotted with chimney stacks left over from its long-gone mining industry. But out to sea lies another legacy -- thousands of tons of tin, waiting to be mined. "There's 22,000 tons of tin there," said Mike...

Lawyers for more than 25,000 miners and the dependents of deceased workers who contracted silicosis and tuberculosis while working on South African gold mines filed an application to combine three pending cases against producers. Abrahams Kiewitz Attorneys, the Legal...