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A $4.7-billion bid by the founders of ENRC to buy out the Kazakh miner has gained the support of top shareholder Kazakhmys, paving the way for them to take the company private after almost six turbulent years. ENRC's three founders, Alexander Machkevitch, Alijan...

Barrick is a Canadian company in which there is major British investment (see http://moneytometal.org/index.php?title=Special%3ASearch&search=Barrick&go=Go). Barrick's Pascua Lama could wind up costing US$10bn, analyst says Canadian Barrick Gold's Pascua Lama...

For the past three years Ierissos in Greece has been at the centre of an increasingly bitter dispute. Its inhabitants, hitherto more accustomed to farming, fishing, or running hotels, have been condemned as subversives at the highest level of government, and they have...

Over sixty prominent Australians have initiated an open letter to the country's biggest four banks, calling for an end to investments in the fossil fuel industry and the beginnings of divestment from the sector, in order to avoid runaway climate change. Among the...

The World Bank plans to restrict its financing of coal-fired power plants to “rare circumstances,” according to a draft strategy that reflects the lender’s increased focus on mitigating the effects of climate change. The Washington-based lender will help countries...

On Friday 21 June 2013 the UK Government announced that new opencast coal sites would normally not fall under the provisions of the Growth and Infrastructure Act. As a consequence, Loose Anti Opencast Network (LAON) issued the following Press Release: THE PLANNING...

UK's nuclear clean-up programme to cost billions more than expected Nuclear Decommissioning Authority declines to predict final lifetime clean-up cost amid fears total bill could exceed £100bn See...

Press release: Down to Earth, London Mining Network and the Indonesian Mining Advocacy Network (JATAM). London, 26 June 2013 Much of the talk at today’s Bumi plc AGM will centre on the company’s deep financial and governance woes, but it is the people most directly...

The "El Mauro" tailings-dam is the biggest in Latin America, and third biggest in the world. It holds 2060 million tons of water and mining waste, and is over double the height of the London Eye. Severe risk of the dam collapsing in an earthquake, water pollution, its...

Phulbari's fertile farmlands are Bangladesh's rice bowl. (Photo courtesy of JACSES) British company GCM Resources was dealt a serious blow today as the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) agreed to consider complaints regarding severe human...