Multinational gold mining company AngloGold Ashanti has sparked protests as it considers processing ore in a central Colombian town 50 miles west of the capital Bogota. Hundreds of protesters gathered in Doima, a small town in the Tolima department, on the day before...
The largest shareholder in Eurasian Natural Resources Corporation, the embattled FTSE 100 mining group, has refused to back a deal to buy out the company’s controversial business partner in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, as the company was separately...
In a report destined to frustrate advocates for global action on climate change, the Paris-based International Energy Agency projected Tuesday morning that in five years’ time, the amount of coal burned around the globe every year will increase by an additional...
Before Christmas, environmental groups called foul on the World Bank for even considering a proposal to finance a new coal-fired power plant in Mongolia. Funding Rio Tinto’s Oyu Tolgoi copper and gold mine project, which also includes a 750 megawatt coal plant,...
A South African lawyer has moved to file a class action suit against more than 30 gold firms on behalf of 17,000 former miners who say they contracted the debilitating lung disease silicosis due to negligence in health and safety. The companies include...
Evidence has emerged that police who mowed down striking Lonmin workers in the “Marikana Massacre” last August, deliberately shot their victims, without taking any steps to arrest them. See http://www.minesandcommunities.org/article.php?a=12072....
