A prominent leader of Burma’s pro-democracy movement has cited the country’s biggest copper mine as a leading example of the type of “development” which must be eschewed at all costs in future. Last month, a forum in Rangoon, attended by a wide...
New Zealand’s public pension announced fund that it has pulled out its investment, worth more than $1 million, from Freeport-McMoran Copper & Gold over concerns about allegations of human rights violations faced by the company at its Grasberg mine in West...
Environmental groups are calling for the Dominican Republic’s government to ban nickel mining at multinational resource group Xstrata’s Falcondo mine in the Loma Miranda area of La Vega province, because they feel it affects the country’s main water...
Residents demand jobs and profits share. Police block Barrick mine entrance as protests continue. See http://www.minesandcommunities.org/article.php?a=11952. Barrick is a Canadian company in which there is major British investment (see...
Peru’s top court has affirmed the right of an Amazon indigenous community to block outsiders from entering its lands – a ruling that could foil resource extraction in tribal areas, experts said. Among London-listed and London-financed companies operating...
Almost three years to the day after the brutal slaying of community leader Adolfo Ich at Hudbay Minerals’ mining project in Guatemala, Guatemalan authorities finally arrested the former chief of security of the mine, Mynor Padilla, on charges of murder and attempted...
