I have been to many mining company AGMs but never to one as ineptly run as Bumi’s first London AGM, held this morning at the Institute of Directors in Pall Mall. It even made Vedanta’s notorious AGMs look good. AGMs are supposed to be occasions where a company’s...
Angry residents of Indonesia’s resource-rich Papua island burned cars and shops on Thursday after an independence activist was shot and killed, police and human rights activists said. Among British-based companies taking advantage of Indonesia’s...
Activist Q&A: Meet Sukhgerel Dugersuren Bank Information Center highlights the work of Sukhgerel Dugersuren, Executive Director of the Mongolian NGO Oyu Tolgoi Watch, which is challenging Rio Tinto’s massive copper-gold mine in the South Gobi desert. See...
The 800 lb gorilla of heavy metal contamination in Utah is the Rio Tinto copper mine and smelter. In the Rio Tinto dust cloud that frequently obscures our mountains is a heavy metal stew of lead, arsenic, cadmium. and mercury that ultimately permeates our air, water,...
For a little over a decade, multinational mining companies have been scouring the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, looking for economic deposits of precious metals, uranium, and other minerals. Rio Tinto is the first company to receive permits to mine under...
Indonesia will not be righting the perception that it’s a tough place for miners after the country’s supreme court said it will not hear Churchill Mining’s appeal in its two-year legal battle to get compensation for a coal project that the company...
