On 24 May, the East Ayrshire Council Cabinet met to discuss an initial report into the state of the opencast coal mining industry. The report, published on 23 May by the Council, highlights publicly for the first time the scale of failings on the part of Scottish Coal...
It’s not been an easy year so far for Glencore, the world’s largest commodities trader. A confidential U.N. Panel of Experts is said to confirm that the company supplied thousands of tons of alumina to Iranian, which may have aided the country’s...
CATAPA’s protest at Deutsche Bank’s AGM – see report below Hundreds of protesters were locked in a standoff with police in northern Peru on Wednesday as they vowed to stop Newmont Mining from transferring water from a lake to a reservoir as part of...
Rio Tinto (along with Brazilian multinational Vale) is accused by Human Rights Watch of badly unsettling communities in Mozambique. See http://www.minesandcommunities.org/article.php?a=12310.
As Rio Tinto sacks a hundred workers at its ill-fated Utah copper mine, so two unions – formerly at loggerheads for years – unite to take on the world’s second largest iron ore miner. See http://www.minesandcommunities.org/article.php?a=12318.
Mining giant Rio Tinto has cut nearly 100 jobs at its Kennecott Utah copper mine and warned further positions will be slashed later this month to lower operating costs after a pit-wall collapse inside Bingham Canyon in April. See...
