Take action: stop Rio Tinto wrecking Mongolia!

Feb 14, 2013 | News

Right now Mongolia has one of the world’s fastest growing economies because of the minerals it owns, but nearly a third of the population still lives in poverty. Mongolia could become one of those countries that suddenly became very wealthy but its people remained...

Strike declared at El Cerrejon

Feb 14, 2013 | News

Workers have gone on strike at the massive Cerrejon coal mine in Colombia, owned by London-listed multinationals Anglo American, BHP Billiton and Xstrata. Click on image for more…

Drama at Bumi misses the point

Feb 14, 2013 | News

The internecine warfare on the Bumi board makes for gripping entertainment. The articles below report on the ebb and flow of the struggle between ousted Nat Rothschild, whose financial machinations brought Bumi to the London Stock Exchange, and the Bakrie family with...

Indefinite strike declared against AngloGold Ashanti in Colombia

Feb 14, 2013 | News

Around 350 inhabintants of Doima in the department of Tolima in Colombia declared an indefinite strike on 5 February and blocked a bridge giving London-listed AngloGold Ashanti access to the hamlet of Piedras. Protesters reject the company’s plans to use the...

More grief at GCM as another director is 'terminated'

Feb 14, 2013 | News

Recently, GCM Resources CEO Gary Lye was prevented from visiting the site at Phulbari, Bangladesh, where the company wants to open a huge opencast coal mine. One of the company’s Directors, Graham Taggart, resigned. (See...