The mining company contracted to provide metal for the London 2012 Olympic medals is facing a lawsuit in Utah accused of violating the country’s clean air laws. Reported by Al Jazeera, the findings undermine the London Olympic Organising Committee’s...
London will soon play host to the 2012 Olympics, which organisers boast will be the most environmentally friendly Games ever. But with the metal for all competitor medals coming from one huge polluting hole in the ground in Utah, could London’s 2012 legacy be...
Steelworkers Outraged by Lack of Ethics in London Olympics LONDON, U.K., 20 June, 2012 – International outrage is growing over Rio Tinto’s involvement in the London Olympics following the shocking revelation the mining giant has been allowed to “slip through” auditing...
2012 medals mine linked to premature deaths in Utah London Mining Network, an extractive industry watchdog, has reacted angrily to news that mining giant has been allowed to supply metals for the Olympics without having an agreed audit in place. Speaking in an...
The gold, silver and bronze metal in the London 2012 Olympic Games medals was mined after London Olympic Games organisers allowed its supplier Rio Tinto “to slip through the net”, an Olympic watchdog has found. See...
This year’s medals, the largest and heaviest in Olympic history, will be made almost entirely from the raw materials extracted and smelted at the Kennecott Copper Mine, owned by Anglo-Australian mining giant Rio Tinto. But now this mine is also at the centre of...
