Saami in Arctic Sweden say they’ll continue to blockade a mining access road throughout this coming winter in an attempt to stop plans for a large iron mine from moving ahead — a comment made before police moved in August 12 to break down a barricade and remove...
How Vedanta’s mine hope rests on 12 tribal villages In a remote village in the eastern Indian state of Orissa tribespeople have gathered under hastily erected sheds to decide whether to allow mining group Vedanta to extract bauxite from the earth. Vedanta, owned...
Glencore Xstrata has finally succumbed to reality in recognising the nature of the opposition it faces to the proposed Tampakan project, and has agreed to further long-term delays (& ‘down-sized’ its workforce in the process). This follows the launch...
Rio Tinto cuts about 2,000 jobs at Oyu Tolgoi — report Mining giant Rio Tinto is said to have laid off about 2,000 workers at its $6.6 billion Oyu Tolgoi mine in Mongolia, amid negotiations between the company and the government on how to share revenue from the mine....
Tuesday 13 August marked ten years since mining giant Rio Tinto turned back the trucks and commenced rehabilitation work at the controversial Jabiluka uranium project in Kakadu. The move saw one of the world’s biggest miners return 50,000 tonnes of unprocessed...
Rio Tinto Group said it would be interested in regaining control of disputed iron-rich ground in Guinea it was stripped of in 2008, prompting the recipient of the land to claim Rio has no viable plan for its development. “We know that there’s iron ore there and...
