A 32-year-old Australian lawyer for a Rio Tinto subsidiary has been prevented from leaving Mongolia by local law enforcement following allegations of corruption. The Australian reports that Sarah Armstrong, chief lawyer for Rio subsidiary SouthGobi Resources, has been...
Fear of displacement stalks tribals inhabiting Banspal block of Keonjhar district abutting the beautiful Khandadhar waterfall with hundreds of companies, including South Korean steel behemoth Posco, applying for lease to mine the Khandadhar hill. A Niyamgiri-type...
Peru’s prior consultation law could help resolve some of the social conflicts in the country’s mining sector, but it is not a surefire remedy, according to NGO CooperAccion founder and ex-deputy environment minister, José de Echave. “The way things...
Canada-based, London-listed Nautilus Minerals Inc. sank to fresh lows in London, falling almost 5%, hit by the news of a Papua New Guinea’s landowners petition to the Government to cancel the firm’s seabed mining permit. The company, the first to explore...
The Executive Director of Third World Network Africa urges implementation of the continent’s Mining Vision, saying it “posits a paradigm shift away from the mining and development regime has dominated…since the colonial times”. See...
Supporters say Marlin mine creates jobs, but critics see it as exploitative and environmentally unsound. The Marlin mine is owned by Goldcorp, a Canadian company with British investment. Among Goldcorp’s major investors are British-based AXA Investment Managers UK...
