India’s state of Goa shuts all iron mines All ninety iron ore mines in India’s holiday state of Goa have been temporarily closed, following a government-backed inquiry which concluded they were without environmental permits. The MB Shah Commission, which...
Though Not Yet Open, Rio Tinto’s Huge Mine Is Transforming Mongolia’s Landscape In the dry expanses of southern Mongolia, a handful of large blue buildings are clustered together, ringed only by a thin metal fence. A single plane sits on an airstrip, while power...
The Philippine Government has issued its new rules to implement the President’s Executive Order No. 79 on mining. Despite assertions that these will settle the issue of Xstrata’s Tampakan project being blocked by the local government, it seems they...
Rio Tinto’s uranium subsidiary Energy Resources of Australia (ERA) has denied claims it is expanding operations without environmental assessments. It comes as the Environment Centre NT (ECNT) and the Australian Conservation Foundation accuse the miner of...
The third draft of “Guidelines for Corporations Operating in Burma” has been submitted to “Civil Society Organizations and Shareholders Addressing Corporations in Burma” by the US Campaign for Burma Committee on SRI at the Unitarian Universalist Association....
London-listed South African miner AngloGold Ashanti sees its project pipeline in Colombia as one of three key priorities, CEO Mark Cutifani said during a presentation at the Denver Gold Forum. See...
