Last year, Blackpool and other parts of Lancashire’s Fylde coast were rocked by two earthquakes. The tremors were only small, and geologists will tell you quakes of this size happen quite naturally about 10 times a month. But the tremors have placed the coastal...
Four months ago, 178 nation states voted to prohibit all exports of hazardous wastes, including electronic wastes. Yet, so-called “e-wastes” – particularly from discarded mobile phones – continue being dumped across the developing world,...
AFRICAN Barrick Gold will spend 8.5m US dollars in three years for community infrastructure in seven villages surrounding the mine in Mara region. See http://allafrica.com/stories/201203150095.html. [And see page 11 of LMN’s recently published report at...
Earlier this month, the Indonesian government proposed new legislation, aimed at increasing domestic ownership and revenue from foreign-based mining operations. Last year, Ernst & Young also identified at least 25 countries that have increased, or plan to raise,...
For residents of Johannesburg or Witbank, the most visible legacy of 100 years of mining is not the country’s well-developed engineering and financial services sectors. It is tainted water sources and dust blowing off old mine dumps. As time passes, the damage mining...
The Indian state of Goa has pledged to close down all illegal iron ore mines. That’s welcome news, except that some “legal” outfits – such as Vedanta’s Sesa Goa – have also been accused of profiting from illegal operations....
