Opposition to Peru’s largest proposed mine recently spread outside the country – to Spain and the United States. Last week, up to 2,000 citizens marched on the Peruvian capital, calling for Newmont’s Conga project (and two others, controlled by Anglo...
Thousands of workers continue striking at operations controlled by two of the world’s three biggest mining companies. In Canada, the United Steelworkers accused Rio Tinto of “major assault on workers and communities” as the UK-based giant planned for...
BHP Billiton and Rio Tinto have raised their bets on global copper demand, approving plans for a $4.5 billion expansion of the massive Escondida mine in Chile, while BHP plans to reopen a U.S. copper mine idled three years ago. See...
Two prominent global diversified natural resource companies are heading back to Papua New Guinea. They are the London based Rio Tinto Group and Melbourne based (and London-listed) BHP Billiton. The two global multinational exploration, development, production and...
There’s nothing new in the assertion that mining brings jobs, services and general socio-economic development to local communities. This argument appeared to win the day at the 2002 World Summit for Sustainable Development in Johannesburg – and will...
It’s where “the World connects with African Mining”. At least – that was the claim for Africa’s official Mining Indaba, which ended in South Africa last week. The event was organised in the shadow of figures showing a dramatic decline in...
