Losses for mining and energy companies were almost across the board on Monday after trade data from China showed a deficit that was the largest in 12-years. Investors in world number one BHP Billiton and Anglo-American curbed losses to less than 1%, but Brazil’s...
The group will work with eight mining groups in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda to address dangerous working practices and environmental damage in small-scale gold mining. See http://www.mineweb.com/mineweb/view/mineweb/en/page504?oid=146833&sn=Detail&pid=92730....
Fukushima, One Year Later – Nuclear Power and the Big Lie http://www.counterpunch.org/2012/03/05/nuclear-power-and-the-big-lie/#.T1U_zJiZOuQ.gmail Time to say goodbye to nuclear power http://mdn.mainichi.jp/perspectives/news/20120307p2a00m0na003000c.html...
UK-listed Vedanta Resources is rarely out of the headlines, accused of betraying the very people it purports to support and respect. Last week, the company tried to prevent a public hearing into its plans to expand a stalled alumina refinery in the Indian state of...
Violent confrontations between two South African unions have so far cost three mineworker’s lives, and the situation shows little sign of being peacefully resolved. At the heart of the conflict are not just labour issues, but the political affiliations of the...
Zambia has closed a copper treatment plant belonging to Glencore International’s Mopani Copper Mines for pollution violations, the state environmental agency said on Monday. See http://af.reuters.com/article/investingNews/idAFJOE82405O20120305.
