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...
by Liam Barrington-Bush | Oct 24, 2016 | Commentary
In light of last week’s announcement on the day of the BHP Billiton AGM, that the Brazilian prosecutor’s office had laid charges against 26 executives of Samarco, including staff from BHP Billiton and Vale, London Mining Network offers the following...
by Liam Barrington-Bush | Oct 18, 2016 | Commentary, Events, News
Visitors from three of the thirteen countries BHP Billiton operates in have come to London in search of accountability for the the company’s operations in their respective homes. These range from the fall-outs of the much-publicised Samarco dam disaster in Brazil, to...
by Patrick Scott | Sep 1, 2016 | Commentary, News
The US banking giant JPMorgan Chase has recently announced that it has taken a 9.12% holding in the Australian mining company Danakali. On its company website Danakali describes its main focus as the Colluli Potash Project in Eritrea which it owns jointly with the...
