A huge demonstration against the construction of gold mines in northern Greece took place in the city of Thessaloniki on November 24. Around 8,000 protesters from the areas of Halkidiki, Thrace and Kilkis, along with people from Thessaloniki and solidarity groups...
Employees at mines in Zambia, Africa’s biggest copper producer, are demanding pay increases of as much as 50 percent for 2013, the nation’s biggest mineworkers’ union said. Talks with companies began in October and are set to conclude by the end of the year, when the...
Goldcorp has been repeatedly accused of damaging the environment and violating human rights in countries where it operates, particularly Guatemala. In an in-depth documentary, news outlet AlJazeera TV analyses the main claims against the miner, which has said in its...
Paper presented by London-based Nostromo Research to around 25 European bankers, joined by NGO representatives, at a roundtable meeting held in Germany on 30 October 2012. Virtually each week, serious criticisms are made of a mining company or its operations, although...
Commentary by Nostromo Research The Kolar goldfields were operated by state-owned Bharat Gold Mines Ltd (BGML) until closed down in the late 1990s. In June 2011, a London-based, Guernsey-registered, company called Kolar Gold Ltd (KGL) listed on AIM and negotiated with...
In this article, Samuel Jones examines – among other things – the role of the British Government and British security companies in imposing mining and other projects on communities in Guatemala that community members do not want. See British investments in...
