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Pacific women protesting in the streets at the International Rio+20 Conference in Brazil actively promoting the 'No Experimental Seabed Mining' message. Source: http://ramumine.wordpress.com/ by Helen Rosenbaum and Natalie Lowrey Deep Sea Mining Frenzy A frenzy of sea...

London Mining Network, War on Want, Chile 40 Years On, and others, protested outside the AGM of Antofagasta plc on Wednesday 12 June, and raised concerns inside. Click on the photo for more details…

Foil Vedanta  Press Release, Friday 7th June 2013 Reports from the Niyamgiri hills have confirmed that CRPF special forces have been targeting villages who are opposing Vedanta’s proposed mine, threatening them not to do so, and destroying grain stores and items of...

When the Supreme Court announced its verdict to hand the decision on Vedanta’s Niyamgiri mine back to the Dongria Kond and other affected people via a complex process of legal claim filing, gram sabhas and a final MoEF nod, both Vedanta and their opposition...

The vultures who have picked over and coughed out the bones of this bond include Barclays, Royal Bank of Scotland, Standard Chartered and  JP Morgan. See http://www.minesandcommunities.org/article.php?a=12324&l=1.

Photo by David P Ball Greek activists travelled to Vancouver, Canada, last week to highlight the social and environmental impacts of mining company Eldorado’s activities in the region of Halkidiki, which happens to be the homeland of Aristotle. Eldorado Gold, a...

A fortnight ago, twenty eight workers went to their deaths at Freeport-Rio Tinto's Grasberg mine in Papua. Last Friday, yet another employee was critically injured during another "accident", leading to renewed calls by trade unions for a thorough probe into health and...

Statement presented in May 2013 at the 12th session of the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Peoples Issues in the United Nations, New York, by the organization and movement of Sütsüin Jiyeyu Wayuu - Fuerza de Mujeres Wayuu (SJW-FMW). The statement specifically...

Indonesia's Constitutional Court has invalidated the Indonesian government's claim to millions of hectares of forest land, potentially giving indigenous and local communities the right to manage their customary forests. While the decision - if properly implemented -...

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 suspended Pascua-Lama gold project will likely be reactivated in one to two years at the...