CoAL rail plan faces farmers’ resistance

London-listed Coal of Africa Limited (CoAL) has again sailed into an environmentally-charged storm over its plans to build a R300 million railway line north of the Soutpansberg in the Limpopo River basin. See...

Colombia: going for gold

Small-Scale Miners in Nariño Face Crackdown as Foreign Companies Set Sights on Colombia. This article involves South African-based, London-listed AngloGold Ashanti. See http://www.minesandcommunities.org/article.php?a=11642.  

In Ghana, a mining activist fights the gold goliaths

Whether on billboards along the roads or embroidered on shirt collars, mining companies – including London-listed AngloGold Ashanti – are ubiquitous in this jungle hub of Ghana’s Western Region. Their presence is sometimes lost behind the lazy-leafed...

Churchill seeks $2bn from Indonesia over coal dispute

London-listed Churchill Mining plc has been in bitter dispute with Indonesian authorities over control of one of the country’s largest coal deposits. Now, the company is threatening to resort to international arbitration. See...

Peru's Highest Court Sides With Central Government In Conga Case

Peru’s highest court has declared that the left-wing regional government of Cajamarca overstepped its bounds when it recently rejected the country’s biggest proposed mining project. However, a team of environmental auditors has criticised the existing mine...