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UK courts find BHP responsible for the collapse of the Fundão tailings dam
In a significant ruling at London’s High Courts, BHP has been found legally responsible for the catastrophic collapse of the Fundão tailings dam in Mariana, which took the lives of 20 people and left lasting environmental and emotional scars across Minas Gerais,...
Cartographies of extraction and waste in the energy transition: Perspectives from Peru
Landscape Architecture, UCL77 Wicklow Street, London WC1X 9JY Join us to hear perspectives from Peruvian land defenders living near a copper mine and from members of the Red Muqui network. We are also presenting the exhibition - Cartographies of extraction and waste...
Photo exhibition: 10 Years of Brazil’s Worst Environmental Crime
On 5 November 2015, the Fundão tailings dam, operated by Samarco, a joint venture between Vale and BHP, burst in Mariana, Minas Gerais. More than 40 million cubic metres of toxic mining waste tore through communities, killing 20 people and contaminating the Rio Doce...
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...