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Ten years on from the catastrophic yet preventable failure of the Fundāo tailings dam in Brazil
This blog is a collaboration between LMN and cosmopolíticas in Brazil. On 5 November 2015, the catastrophic failure of the Fundão dam operated by Samarco Mineração S.A. - a joint venture between BHP owning 50% and Vale S.A. 50% - unleashed around 45 million...
Transition Mineral Mining 50 revealed
The Transition Mineral Mining 50 identifies the top 50 largest, publicly traded transition mineral mining companies implicated in an active case on Environmental Justice Atlas. ‘Transition minerals’ are the minerals that are vital to the technology of low-carbon...
Scripting State Violence and Criminalisation of Resistance in India
Join us for the sixth session in the InSAF India and London Mining Network webinar series, Deadline or Death Sentence: State Violence and Indigenous (Adivasi) Peoples’ Resistance in India. Watch previous sessions here. Session 6 | Scripting State Violence and...
Critical Minerals, Empty Rhetoric: A Look at the UK’s Critical Minerals Strategy from the MODATIMA movement in Chile
As the UK government prepares to launch a new Critical Minerals Strategy, which will seek to secure supplies amidst a global mineral rush, communities on the frontlines of Britain's mining ambitions speak out. Obtaining so-called critical minerals is increasingly...
Resisting Mining Book Club: “The Global Interior” with Megan Black
LMN is delighted to announce our sixth and final Resisting Mining Book Club of 2025 with guest speaker Megan Black, who will be speaking about her book The Global Interior: Mineral Frontiers and American Power (Harvard University Press, 2018). About the book When one...
Weaponising Land and Forest Legal Regimes for Sabotaging Indigenous (Adivasi) Land Rights in India
Join us for the fifth session in the InSAF India and London Mining Network webinar series, Deadline or Death Sentence: State Violence and Indigenous (Adivasi) Peoples’ Resistance in India. Watch previous sessions here. Session 5 | Weaponising Land and Forest Legal...
The State as an Agent of Corporate Capitalism in India
Image credits: ECCHR Join us for the fourth session in the InSAF India and London Mining Network webinar series, Deadline or Death Sentence: State Violence and Indigenous (Adivasi) Peoples' Resistance in India. Session 4 | The State as an Agent of Corporate Capitalism...
Resisting Mining Book Club: “Subjects of the Sun” with Myles Lennon (10 September, 6pm)
LMN is delighted to announce our fifth Resisting Mining Book Club of 2025 with guest speaker Myles Lennon, who will be discussing his book, Subjects of the Sun: Solar Energy in the Shadows of Racial Capitalism (Duke University Press, 2025). About the book In the face...
Constitutional Court of Chile rules in favour of the Melón community, rejecting Anglo American’s claim against agrarian reform law
El Soldado mine, El Melón, Chile El Melón Farmers’ and Cattle Farmers’ Association has been facing a lawsuit from Anglo American opposing the division of collective land belonging to the association. However, Chile’s constitutional court has rejected Anglo...
Glencore among companies named in UN report on Israel’s economy of genocide
In the most recent UN report titled ‘From Economy of Occupation to Economy of Genocide’ by the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967, the UN has unveiled the corporate machinery sustaining Israel. In the...