Anti-riot police shot dead two civilians at the North Mara Gold Mine which is operated by London-listed African Barrick Gold (ABG) in the Northern Tarime District. Mara Regional Police Commander for Tarime Special Police Zone, Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP)...
Scientific American provides a detailed, hypothetical response to the question which has no doubt crossed the mind of anyone involved with the mining sector – how long before the Earth’s bounty of resources runs out? See...
London Calling has long pooh-poohed claims of aluminium being the “greenest metal”, uniquely suited to the engineering of sustainable development outcomes. Such a false assertion was made recently by India’s largest producer of the metal. Vedanta...
The prospects of London-listed Canadian miner Nautilus Minerals delivering its proposed Solwara 1 seabed mine in Papua New Guinea (PNG) look increasingly bleak as details emerge of the extent of the dispute between the miner and the PNG government. The PNG government...
Peru’s president Ollanta Humala is taking steps to change the mining industry in Peru that will hopefully contribute to reducing mining-related conflicts in the country. Carlos Monge, from the network of Globilisation with Equality, writes in Diario La Primera...
… although State of Emergency continues in Cajamarca Peru Peruvian Prime Minister Juan Jimenez confirmed to the press that the Conga project “has entered a suspension phase, as you may know, a phase that the company decided upon, of course by request of...
