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Ridding the world of nuclear threats? The central Asian state of Kazakhstan was among the first to ban all nuclear weapons testing on its territory. Last month the government established the world's first international nuclear fuel bank, with the assistance of the US...
Papua: Freeport-Rio Tinto labour battles have no end in sight
Indonesian Police accused of accepting bribes There's no end in sight to the world's biggest wages-related mining strike, as Freeport workers continue blockading (West) Papua's Grasberg operations, following Indonesian police attacks that have already claimed several...
Gobi mega-mine puts Mongolia on brink of world's greatest resource boom
Mongolia's mining boom includes a vast coal mine at Tevan Tolgoi and Rio Tinto's Oyu Tolgoi copper and gold mine, which will provide some of the metal for the 2012 Olympic medals. New mega-mines compete for water with people living traditional nomadic lives, and force...
UK activists surround miniature White House as pipeline protests go global
Activists outside the US Embassy in London surrounded a model of the White House to protest against the proposed US Keystone XL pipeline. Holding banners that read “Obama NO!” and “Tar sands is blood oil”, the action corresponded with 6000 people in Washington DC...
India: Is POSCO's road to destruction about to be built?
The "Indian summer" which saw a lull in attempts by Orissa's government to advance the notorious POSCO project, may be just about to end. There are now fears that company "security", backed by police, will at any time attempt to construct a company road, to...
Indonesia 's Bakrie to sell 23.8% Bumi stake for $1 bn
Indonesia 's Bakrie Group is selling a 23.8 percent stake in London-listed Bumi Plc, its venture with financier Nat Rothschild, to coal miner PT Borneo Lumbung Energi in a $1 billion deal to avoid a loan default. The deal with Borneo, which is backed by Indonesian...
Cyanide from British-owned mine pollutes Kazakh river
The Kazakhstani Ministry for Emergency Situations warned that cyanide levels in the Sekisovka River exceed acceptable levels by 516-fold after an industrial accident, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) reported November 2. The cyanide accidentally spilled into...
Kazakhstan's MPs Toughen Ecology Laws For Miners
Kazakhstan's parliament has approved a strict ecology bill, in a move expected to make some of the world's leading metals miners spend more on treating their waste. Ashim told Reuters in an interview in March that the new law would have an impact on all companies that...
US House of Representatives gives Native territory to Rio Tinto
It's "nothing more than an attempt to transfer American resources from the hands of the American public to foreign interests". That's what a representative of the San Carlos Apache Tribe told the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Peoples in April 2010. He was...
"We''ve seen the future – and it's worker-free!" – Rio Tinto
Rio Tinto is replacing workers with driverless trucks at its Pilbara iron ore operations in Western Australia. See http://www.mining.com/2011/11/02/rio-tinto-boosts-driverless-truck-fleet-for-use-in-pilbara/. LMN member group Partizans notes that in the past, Rio...