Fresh doubts have emerged over world number one miner BHP Billiton’s planned $30 billion expansion of the Olympic Dam copper-uranium-gold-silver mine in South Australia. See...
There are mounting expectations that the world’s biggest mining company will postpone one or more mega-projects it has proposed until economic outlooks in Europe and China improve. See...
Dominant South African workers union NUM has declared a dispute with the group’s Hotazel manganese mines and the issue had been referred to a government mediator to avert a strike. See...
Calls to hold up Anglo American’s Quellaveco copper project as an example to resolve social conflicts in Peru’s mining sector are unlikely to have success in resolving opposition to a string of projects in the Andean country, according to a well-known analyst. See...
The reported persecution of Burma’s Rohingyas minority in the country’s new minerals rush has been largely ignored by the international media. But, says Palestinian columnist Ramzy Baroud, it should be of urgent concern to anyone who has welcomed the...
Now here’s a novel idea. Why not dump fine iron sulphates into the world’s seas, thus helping avert the massive build-up of carbon in the atmosphere – one of the key causes of adverse climate change? Actually, the concept’s been bounced around...
