Conflict erupts at Phulbari

Nov 26, 2012 | News

A strike called in Bangladesh to oppose GCM Resources’ Phulbari opencast coal project won an apparent victory over the weekend. Click on image to read more.

Death metal: tin mining in Indonesia

Nov 24, 2012 | News

If you own a mobile, it’s probably held together by tin from the Indonesian island of Bangka. Mining is wrecking the environment and every year it claims dozens more lives. See http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/nov/23/tin-mining-indonesia-bangka....

New reports on mining and conflict around the world

Nov 24, 2012 | News

Mining from an environmental justice perspective: report from EJOLT (Environmental Justice Organisations, Liabilities and Trade) While world population increased 72 percent between 1970 and 2004, extraction of construction materials grew by 106 percent. The total...

Talvivaara: Environmental Disaster Continues in Finland

Nov 23, 2012 | News

UPDATE 22/11/2012: Talvivaara spill goes on! New leakage found in safety dam! Since the November 4, 2012 a cocktail of poisonous chemicals leaked from the Talvivaara mine in Eastern Finland to the surrounding rivers and lakes. An investigation of the Finnish...

The great big Glencore-Xstrata merger

Nov 23, 2012 | News

Frankglenstrata: the birth of a mining monster? On Tuesday 20 November, mining and trading transnational corporation Glencore succeeded in its takeover bid for Xstrata, another massive mining company. But, why should we care? See...