by Lydia | Jan 13, 2020 | News
After the catastrophic tailings dam collapse at Brazilian mining company Vale’s iron ore mine at Brumadinho on 25 January 2019, the Church of England and Swedish state pension funds started to gather data on existing mine waste tailings dams by sending out a...
by Lydia | Dec 18, 2019 | News
Read a new report by Spanish grassroots organisation Ecologistas en Accion, Speculative mining in Spain. In the last five years Spain has seen a large increase of new open pit mining projects. This acceleration has been justified by the need for minerals and scarce...
by Lydia | Nov 25, 2019 | News
Cerrejon, an opencast coal mine in the north east of Colombia, is the largest coal mine in Latin America and one of the largest in the world. Cerrejon is owned by Carbones del Cerrejón – made up of three London-listed companies: Anglo American, BHP and Glencore. Over...
by Richard | Nov 6, 2019 | News
Report by Diana Salazar and Richard Solly with assistance from Benjamin Hitchcock, Glen Mpufane, Liz Umlas, Paul Robson and Seb Ordonez. 1. As a lively demonstration against BHP continued outside the Queen Elizabeth II Centre in Westminster, the company’s AGM...
by Lydia | Nov 1, 2019 | News
Media coverage of Unmasking BHP 2019 speakers’ tour English press coverage (chronological order) Independent Catholic News Telegraph piece post-AGM (you can register for free to access): The Times, photo only Mining News (behind a paywall, see full article)...
by Richard | Nov 1, 2019 | News
BHP held its London AGM (annual shareholders’ meeting) on Thursday 17 October. We aim to publish a full report and commentary on the AGM in the coming days. For now, we report on what the four participants in our October speaker tour said to the company’s...
