by Richard | May 7, 2019 | News, Press Releases
Report on the Anglo American AGM, Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre, London, 30 April 2019 By Richard Solly (Co-ordinator of London Mining Network and member of Colombia Solidarity Campaign) with assistance from Hal Rhoades, Illary Valenzuela, Isobel Tarr, Laura...
by Richard | May 2, 2019 | News
Some of our friends in La Guajira, including members of Wayuu indigenous organisation Fuerza de Mujeres Wayuu, other community leaders and members of mine workers’ union Sintracarbon, have received fresh death threats. Fuerza de Mujeres Wayuu has been constant...
by Lydia | May 1, 2019 | News
What is Anglo American? Anglo American is a British mining company that has roots in South Africa, its headquarters in London, and is listed on the London Stock Exchange. It mines for diamonds, copper, platinum, coal, iron ore, nickel and manganese in Africa, Asia,...
by Richard | Apr 17, 2019 | News
By Richard Solly, Co-ordinator, London Mining Network, with assistance from Andrew Hickman, Andy Whitmore, Christina Montorio, Paul Robson, Richard Harkinson, Roger Featherstone, Roger Moody and Yvonne Orengo A recording of the entire AGM is available here –...
by Lydia | Apr 8, 2019 | News
London Mining Network is a signatory to the below statement: Monday, April 8, 2019 In the face of the brutal crime committed on March 22nd against a coordinator of the Movement of Dam-Affected Peoples in Brazil, the undersigned human rights and environmental...
by Richard | Mar 26, 2019 | News
Full report of the Lonmin AGM 25 March 2019 by Richard Solly, Co-ordinator, London Mining Network, with assistance from Andy Higginbottom, Daniel Selwyn, Maren Grimm, Markus Dufner, Nima Mudey and Tilman Massa. A loud and colourful demonstration took place outside the...
by Lydia | Mar 5, 2019 | Monthly bulletin, News
Dear friends, We have redesigned our website! It now provides much more introductory material, so people who are not familiar with the mining industry or our work can learn more about the background as well as being able to find our latest news (now available at the...
by Richard | Feb 27, 2019 | News
Press release from CAJAR lawyers’ collective (Colectivo de Abogados Jose Alvear Restrepo), Bogota, Friday 22 February 2019. (Unofficial translation; original in Spanish.) Cerrejón Coal is owned by London-listed companies Anglo American, BHP and Glencore. Legal...
by Lydia | Jan 26, 2019 | News
The catastrophic spill from Brazilian company Vale’s Brumadinho mining waste dam in Minas Gerais state is the second massive waste dam collapse in Brazil in recent years. The last one was at Mariana, in the same state, in November 2015, at the Samarco iron ore mine...
by Richard | Dec 28, 2018 | News
Report by Richard Solly, Co-ordinator, London Mining Network I suspect that GCM Resources management thought that if they held their AGM this year on 28 December, deep in the heart of the Christmas-New Year break, protesters would stay away and they could have a quiet...
