London-based Churchill Mining plc has lost an attempt to overturn a court’s revocation of mining licences held by the company in East Kalimantan. The company plans to appeal further. See...
A curb on small-scale tin mining on Indonesia’s Bangka and Belitung islands, announced in early August, has been strongly criticised by the general secretary of the Indonesian Tin Industry Association, Johan Murod. Mr Murod claims that “[t]he government is...
There has been another shooting incident at the AngloGold Ashanti Obuasi Mine during which 23-year-old Kwame Eric of Binsere, near Obuasi, was shot by a detail of a private security organisation engaged by the Company. He was shot at the South Tailings Storage...
The Indian Supreme Court has extended the interim stay on the Madras High Court order directing closure of Sterlite Industries’ copper smelting plant at Tuticorin in Tamil Nadu till August 25. Sterlite is a subsidiary of London-based Vedanta. See...
Canada’s HudBay Minerals is about to sell all its interests in Guatemala’s Fenix project. Almost certainly one of the prompts for its withdrawal is the murder of a man, and the alleged gang-rapes of eleven women at the project in 2007. However, according...
Sesa Goa, the iron ore mining arm of Vedanta Resources, has completed a transaction to acquire a controlling stake in Liberia’s Western Cluster Iron Ore project for $90 million. See...
