Australian miners and unions are outraged after hearing a Rio Tinto employee went missing for almost four days before he was found dead at a Western Australia mine camp. See http://www.mining.com/rio-tintos-miner-dead-four-days-before-found-30678/.
Lawyers representing gold miners suffering from the deadly lung disease silicosis said on Thursday they had filed a class action lawsuit application against the South African arm of global mining giant Anglo American. The application by the legal groups from South...
Canadian High Commissioner to the UK, Gordon Campbell, was greeted with protests at Oxford University on Friday 8 March. Local community members held a banner which read “Keep Tar Sands out of Europe” at the entrance to Lady Margaret Hall as Campbell arrived to...
The Polish government’s plea to obtain even more free carbon emissions permits from the Eropean Union has failed – at least for the time being. However, the European Commission is facing stiff opposition from industry and others to its proposal to...
The bloody first round of South Africa’s mine union turf war is over and the clear winner on the platinum belt is the Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union (AMCU). From this position of strength, AMCU is signalling a radical departure from tactics...
Why is ex-British prime minister, Tony Blair, so keen to endorse Rwanda’s president, Paul Kagame, despite growing condemnation of his regime, both at home and abroad? In an article, co-authored by Blair and Howard G Buffett, published last month in the US...
