Rio Tinto, Get Serious About Water!

Rio Tinto, Get Serious About Water!

With some 23 million people already suffering globally from the impacts of existing toxic water contamination as a result of mine tailings and wastewater, and this number likely to increase with the exponential increase of mineral extraction for the energy transition,...
LMN statement on IRP GRO 2024

LMN statement on IRP GRO 2024

On 1 March 2024, the International Resource Panel (IRP) launched an update of its  2019 Global Resources Outlook (GRO) report. The report covers the increasing demands for metals and minerals, which will of course mean more mining. Here is LMN’s statement on the...
12 March – Rejeitos (Tailings): Film screening

12 March – Rejeitos (Tailings): Film screening

In recent years, two mining tailings dams broke in the state of Minas Gerais, causing Brazil’s worst ever socio-environmental disasters. Hundreds were killed, millions were affected. Communities were displaced and two main rivers became mud, flooding the...