Tanzania’s government is in talks with mining companies to raise royalty payments on gold exports as well as negotiating other possible tax hikes. African Barrick Gold has four gold mines in Tanzania while Australia’s third largest gold miner, Resolute...
Indigenous Papuans are waging a four-decade long nonviolent struggle for independence from Indonesia. At the heart of Papuan grievances lies Freeport, the world’s largest gold and copper mine, owned and operated by US based company Freeport McMoRan and their...
The leader of the Original Me’ekamui rebel group on Bougainville, Chris Uma says he wants to talk with the Australian government and with mining giant Rio Tinto, about the reopening Panguna copper mine. See...
Humankind has explored deeper into the depths of space than it has into the murky depths of the ocean. People actually have more knowledge of what lies at the end of the universe than at the bottom of the sea. Among the companies planning seabed mining are...
Statement by the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Navi Pillay, for 9 August, the International Day of the World’s Indigenous People … In India, social unrest and conflicts over land acquisition for development and mining projects have increased...
New information confirms that a little-publicised mining deal between Rio Tinto and Canada-based Ivanhoe Mines has, almost literally, sold the people of Burma down the river. See http://www.minesandcommunities.org/article.php?a=11098 Ivanhoe chief says Oyu Tolgoi...
