On 21 May, London-listed Chilean mining company Antofagasta plc held its Annual General Meeting in London, at which it presented its annual report. The report is interesting for what it does NOT say as well as for what it does. The company’s subsidiary Minera...
Perle Zafinandro from Madagascar The week before the recent Rio Tinto AGM, London Mining Network organised an event at Amnesty International UK’s Human Rights Action Centre so that people could hear from representatives of communities and workers directly...
Report by Richard Solly, Co-ordinator, London Mining Network This year’s Anglo American AGM – always very genteel affairs – was a little more exciting than usual. Mark Beacon of LMN member group ACTSA (Action for Southern Africa) presented Anglo American’s...
Leigh Day and Co Press Release, 23 April 2014 Lawyers for over 4000 ex-miners are marking this year’s Annual General Meeting (“AGM”) of mining giant Anglo American plc with the launch of an online video highlighting the plight of miners suffering from the respiratory...
By Andy Whitmore, Co-chair, London Mining Network A funny thing happened on the way to boredom. I was sitting, as so often, in a company shareholder annual general meeting; this particular edition being Rio Tinto’s 2014 AGM. We were in the first section of the...
Richard Solly, Co-ordinator, London Mining Network Thanks from Alaska This year’s Rio Tinto AGM was extraordinary for one particular reason: Indigenous representatives had travelled all the way from Alaska to THANK the company – for pulling out of a project that...
