Rio Tinto subsidiary Kennecott plays coy with the US Environmental Protection Agency, Utah’s Department of Air Quality and Salt Lake City officials as it lays a plan to mine the mineral-rich dustpiles of yesteryear. See...
RIO Tinto will launch a High Court action in a bid to overturn a ruling that opens the way for unions to get an increased foothold in Western Australia’s Pilbara. The union movement last night condemned the move, accused the company of “clinging to Work...
Although several, pay-related, gold mine strikes have just ended in South Africa, this doesn’t by any means mark an end to struggles for elementary economic justice on the part of large numbers of workers. In a statement of 28 July 2011, the National Union of...
Mining group BHP Billiton was on Friday still considering the contents of a South Gauteng High Court ruling, which ordered that State-owned power utility Eskom should release information and records relating to electricity sales contracts with BHP Billiton’s Hillside...
BHP Billiton may delay expansion of Olympic Dam mine “There hasn’t been a [nuclear] plant in the world built without the relevant government assuming much of the construction, operating and financing risk. There is not a single insurer, banker or...
A strike at Escondida, the world’s biggest copper mine, started on July 21. It sparked stoppage threats at other mines across Chile, the globe’s’s top copper producer. (Workers at Collahuasi, the world’s third most productive copper mine, also...
