Yesterday’s Rio Tinto AGM was widely covered in the press and social media. John Vidal wrote in the Guardian about recently published reports about the impacts of Rio Tinto’s uranium mining in Namibia. These reports were also featured in Independent...
Andrew Hickman of LMN member group Down to Earth reflects on the final settlement of the dispute at Bumi plc, now renamed as Asia Resource Minerals. You may have seen articles in the press on the twitter spat between Nat Rothschild and Aga Bakrie calling each other...
Last month, LMN got together with friends at Rights and Accountability in Development, MiningWatch Canada and CORE to produce a briefing for investors and equity analysts. The subject was human rights at African Barrick Gold’s North Mara mine in Tanzania. There...
Article provided by AÇÃO ILHÉUS, Brazil 16 March 2014 As already published around the world, Glencore Xstrata could be the possible buyer of Pedra de Ferro ( Bahia – Brazil ) project, owned by scandal-hit miner ENRC. The project involves the construction of a...
By Richard Solly, London Mining Network Co-ordinator (with assistance from Andy Whitmore, LMN Co-chair) Readers of a certain age (i.e. those who are beginning to get a bit long in the tooth, like me) may remember the original version of The Magic Roundabout, in which,...
Regulation, regulation, regulation … 4th March 2014 Richard Solly, the Co-ordinator of London Mining Network (LMN) was one of four civil society representatives called to give testimony today before a Department of Business Innovation and Skills Parliamentary Select...
