London-based resource group Anglo American has started phase two production at its Barro Alto nickel operation in Brazil’s Goiás state, the company reported in a release. See...
Protesters have been on hunger strike to prevent nuclear power station construction in Tamil Nadu, India Indefinite Fast Against Nuclear Plant in Koodankulam http://www.justicia.in/indefinite-fast-against-koodankulam-nuclear-plant-5th-day-update/ Anti- Nuclear...
Vying for the title of the London Metal Exchange’s highest priced mainstream metal are nickel and tin. At the time of writing, the cash quotes for these metals panned out as follows: nickel ~$US21,400 per tonne and tin $US23,900 per tonne. See...
The United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) has now added the UK to the list of countries, about which concerns have been raised following reports of “adverse effects of operations by transnational corporations registered in...
The world’s largest commodities trader – and one of the mightiest of miners – has published its first-ever sustainability report, many years after the company was established. It makes for sober – if not shocking – reading, revealing...
The Australian reports BHP Mitsubishi’s decision to bypass unions by seeking a direct employee ballot on a new three-year enterprise agreement takes the world’s number one miner into deeply uncharted industrial relations waters. See...
