A tribe in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, USA, is appealing to the United Nations in an effort to restrain sulphide mining. The tribe hopes to strengthen its position through an international agreement signed by the Obama Administration. The Keweenaw Bay Indian...
Two days of rioting over pay by workers from London-listed African Minerals’ Sierra Leone mine have left one woman dead and at least six injured, witnesses and medical staff said. The company said operations had seen “no significant impact”. See...
An Australian Aboriginal elder has lost his challenge to the federal government’s approval of expansion of the world’s biggest uranium mine. Kevin Buzzacott had argued that insufficient consideration had been paid to the operation’s long-term impacts...
The M4 movement unites groups and organisations in Panama, México, El Salvador, Honduras, Guatemala, United States and Canada. A recent statement by the movement condemns Goldcorp’s Marlin mine in Guatemala. Goldcorp is a Canadian company with British...
Critical shareholders took the world’s second biggest dedicated gold producer to task at its annual general meeting last week. They claimed the company had not implemented various promises to be “socially responsible”. Moreover, its failure to obtain...
If multinationals will do anything to control the public debate, how can indigenous peoples ever assert their rights? See new film on Monterrico Metals by award-winning film-maker and LMN supporter Mikey Watts at...
