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LMN groups and others send protest letter to President of Peru
There have been strong protests in the Cajamarca region of Peru with huge demonstrations, road blocks and occupation of the Conga gold mine site belonging to Yanacocha/Newmont. This resulted in police shooting unarmed protesters on 29 November and the mine announcing...
GCM challenged to pull out of Phulbari coal project
Bangladeshi activists demonstrate against GCM Resources See Morning Star report on the demonstration organised by the UK Branch of the National Committee for the Protection of Bangladesh’s Oil, Gas, Natural Resource, Power and Ports. For a fact sheet on the Phulbari...
British Beowulf caught drilling illegally
Beowulf Mining, the company behind the Kallak exploration project in Jokkmokk, Northern Sweden, has been undertaking exploration drilling in breach of the Swedish Minerals’ Act. The company has been drilling without a valid work plan. Once this was pointed out to the...
Government of Peru agrees to resume talks with Cajamarca representatives
The Peruvian government has agreed to resume dialogue with representatives from northern Cajamarca region, state news agency Andina reported. President Ollanta Humala declared a state of emergency in Cajamarca on December 5 in response to increasingly violent protests...
Proud Indonesian Miners’ End Strike at Grasberg
An agreement was signed in Jakarta on 14 December between PT Freeport Indonesia Workers’ Union (SP KEP SPSI) and management of the world’s largest gold and second largest copper mining complex – Grasberg in Papua province – that will end a 94-day strike on Saturday,...
Sick miners want Anglo American to pay up
Mongezi Mponco left his village of grassland hills as one of hundreds of thousands of healthy young black men who poured into the deep underground of South Africa's gold mines. The 54-year-old continued working when diagnosed with early incurable lung disease until he...
Rio Tinto wins battle against Ivanhoe's "poison pill" rights plan
An arbitrator has ruled that a "poison pill" rights plan erected by Ivanhoe to try and stop a Rio Tinto takeover, does not apply to the latter, leaving Ivanhoe vulnerable to a takeover next year. See...
Namibian uranium saga heats up
Consolidation continues to be a key theme in the uranium sector. Shortly after Rio Tinto Ltd. took control of Hathor Exploration Ltd., Chinese nuclear giant China Guangdong Power Group has made a friendly offer for Kalahari Minerals PLC. See...
Rio wants Canada’s uranium legal controls lifted
Rio Tinto’s chief executive Tom Albanese said that he would lobby Canada to ensure it was the operator of the Roughrider uranium project in Saskatchewan, despite legal hurdles, after its successful takeover of Hathor. At the start of December, Rio emerged the winner...
Rio Tinto's Indian diamond mine may not be – ever
The assassination of environmental and human rights' activist, Shehla Masood, brought into sharp focus plans by Rio Tinto to open India's first new commercial diamond mine in the state of Madhya Pradesh. Recently, Australian Broadcasting Company sent a reporter to...