Glencore said last Tuesday it had again extended the date by which it expects to close its merger with Xstrata, due to the ongoing investigation into the deal in China. Glencore has been waiting for several months for China, the biggest buyer of the materials it...
Mining is being highlighted for the forthcoming elections, with a focus on the candidates’ views over the siting of a coal-fired power plant, required for Xstrata’s deeply controversial Tampakan mine. See...
Last week UK Tar Sands Network activists paid a visit to UK Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg’s office to hand in a petition with nearly 4,000 signatures, urging the government to support the inclusion of tar sands in the EU Fuel Quality Directive. They had teamed up...
London Mining Network is part of an international coalition of organizations supporting traditional herders in Mongolia affected by Rio Tinto’s Oyu Tolgoi copper-silver-gold mine. One of the major concerns is the company’s plan to divert the Undai River....
Citizens of Bougainville, involved in the horrendous military conflict waged on the island for a decade, have been expressing views about the prospective re-opening of the Panguna mine. In early February 2013, Rio Tinto – the company operating the mine until its...
Two Canadian aboriginal communities have filed a C$900 million (US$877 million) lawsuit against a Rio Tinto subsidiary, the Iron Ore Company of Canada (ICO), claiming that more than a half century of mining has disrupted their traditional way of life. They say that:...
