by Saul | Jun 8, 2020 | Commentary, News
A discussion piece from LMN volunteer Maynie; A still from the Chinese documentary Miners, Grooms, and Pneumoconiosis (2019). The film traces the suffering of villagers who have contracted pneumoconiosis from mining iron and tungsten in rural Hunan Province, China....
by Lydia | Feb 14, 2020 | Commentary, News
Chilean activist Javiera Martinez writes about residents of the town of El Melón, who are occupying a well to protest a British mining company’s diversion of essential drinking water ‘It is not drought, it is looting’ is the slogan that movements in Chile are using in...
by Lydia | Dec 18, 2019 | Commentary
For a new constitution making Chile a sovereign state not subordinated to foreign powers By Chilean authors Javiera Martinez and Fernando Toro, and Andy Higginbottom Before the social explosion in Chile in October 2019, the country was immersed in discussing the...
by Lydia | Nov 27, 2019 | Actions, Commentary
In the second year of LMN’s BHP Witness project, we conducted two workshops at Kingston University with first year students around the annual shareholders’ meeting of mining giant BHP, in October. The first was an introduction to the issues – what is BHP, who are the...
by Lydia | Oct 1, 2018 | Commentary
By Richard Harkinson, research associate for London Mining Network What is Vedanta? Vedanta Resources plc is a London stock exchange listed [second investment tier FTSE 250] metals mining and processing company which operates mines, metal refineries and smelters...
by Whit | Nov 26, 2016 | Commentary, News
The lengthy negotiations within the European Union (EU) over conflict minerals regulation have finally concluded, with the end of the tri-party (or trilogue) deliberations between the European Commission, European Parliament, and European Council. The next step should...
