Within a week of receiving final approval from the Goa bench of the Bombay High Court, Vedanta group firms, Sesa Goa and Sterlite Industries announced that their merger scheme, together with several other group firms, has now become effective. In a joint statement,...
The Banjima people of Western Australia’s Pilbara region have won a Native Title claim covering over 10,000sqkm after a 15-year court battle. The Native Title claim was brought to an end when a Federal Court handed down its decision to award the rights of the...
Rio Tinto’s Oyu Tolgoi mine A Rio Tinto Classic: Trade Union Rights violation and dismissal of thousands in Mongolia Mass dismissals have taken place at Rio Tinto operations in Mongolia at OT LLC and in Madagascar at QMM. IndustriALL strongly condemns the...
The dramatic coastline of Cornwall in southwest England is dotted with chimney stacks left over from its long-gone mining industry. But out to sea lies another legacy — thousands of tons of tin, waiting to be mined. “There’s 22,000 tons of tin...
Lawyers for more than 25,000 miners and the dependents of deceased workers who contracted silicosis and tuberculosis while working on South African gold mines filed an application to combine three pending cases against producers. Abrahams Kiewitz Attorneys, the Legal...
Major foreign gold mining companies earned $6.967bn (Sh11.495 trillion) between 2009 and 2012, according to the current exchange rate of Sh1,650 against the US dollar, but paid the Tanzanian government corporation tax amounting to only $280million (Sh473.8billion)...
