Rio Tinto: We Demand Answers
London Mining Network works with groups around the world challenging Rio Tinto over the impacts of its operations. Together, we raised numerous issues at the company’s April AGM, but the company’s responses were evasive and incomplete. Together, we have...
Credibility Crisis: Brumadinho and the Politics of Mining Industry Reform
In June 2020, LMN supported a report by US-based organisation Earthworks and MiningWatch Canada, Safety First – Guidelines for Responsible Mine Tailings Management. This was a response to industry recommendations about mine tailings management. The process by...
Bougainville communities secure commitment from Rio Tinto to assess environmental and human rights impacts of former mine
Press release from Human Rights Law Centre, Australia, 21 July 2021 Rio Tinto has today publicly committed to fund an an independent environmental and human rights impact assessment of its former Panguna mine in Bougainville in response to a human rights complaint...
Recording: Droplet & Wagtail’s Tailings Tale Book Launch
At our 3rd Resisting Mining Book Club, we launched a new children’s book – Droplet and Wagtail’s Tailings Tale! Recorded on 7 July 2021 Join us as we launch Droplet & Wagtail’s Tailings Tale! Originally published in Galician as A Mina...
Sami reindeer herders to Beowulf Mining: why don’t you just give up and go?
Beowulf Mining held its 2021 Annual General Meeting on Friday, 18 June. Beowulf has been trying for years to take forward an iron ore mining project at Kallak, in indigenous Sami territory in the north of Sweden. For years, the Sami have been trying to stop them. We...Connect with LMN
