Article by Ação Ilhéus (Action Ilhéus), Brazil The “Porto Sul” project was initiated on March 3rd 2007 with a letter of intent signed between the Government of the State of Bahia – Brazil and the Bahia Mineração Ltda (BAMIN – a subsidiary of...
For five days in January, a few hundred protesters armed with slingshots in Fort Dauphin, Madagascar, blocked the road to one of the country’s largest economic assets, a $940 million mining operation run by the British-Australian company Rio Tinto. Their grievances...
Mining engineer Jack Parker challenged Rio Tinto over the design of its Eagle Mine in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan in October 2010 (see https://londonminingnetwork.org/2010/10/rio-tinto-subsidiary-slammed-for-unsafe-mine-design-in-us/) and in July 2011 challenged...
Massive protests against British mining company GCM Resources prevented the company’s CEO visiting the site of its proposed open-pit coal mine in Bangladesh last week. One of the company’s directors resigned the following day. See...
Bumi plc was created in 2010 when Nat Rothschild, descendant of the founder of the two-centuries old banking empire, used his family name to get high profile investors to back him in a deal to bring a chunk of the vast business interests of the Bakrie family of...
In late 2012, B’laan tribal leader Daguil Capion’s (also spelt Cafeon below) unarmed wife and children were killed by the Philippine military. The killing was linked to his opposition to Xstrata’s Tampakan mine. Now, his brother has been shot dead in...
