Channel 4’s current affairs programme Dispatches has gone undercover to investigate the gold sold through some of the high street’s biggest jewellery retailers. The programme was presented by Deirdre Bounds, who went campaigning on the streets of London. The programme...
Goldcorp’s Marlin mine in Guatemala is getting to be the most criticised in Latin America – and one of the most divisive too. International bodies are lining up to demand a close down, while Goldcorp and some of its shareholders claim the company is doing...
Communities in the Transkei Wildcoast’s Xolobeni area have successfully pressured the government to halt mining operations in the area. This victory was marked by Minerals Minister Susan Shabangu’s landmark decision to withdraw the right to mine on the...
It’s not a done deal by any means – though some may think so. Australia’s Mineral and Resources Rent Tax (MRRT) is still coming under heavy fire, especially from domestic companies claiming it discriminates against them. Now they are preparing to...
Mining giant Rio Tinto is expected to face court in the Northern Territory over a petrol spill at its alumina refinery on the Gove Peninsula, about 1,000 kilometres east of Darwin. In June last year, Rio Tinto revealed that about 70,000 litres of unleaded petrol had...
Although dealing with a Canadian junior company, people are calling for a full investigation into the murder of Juan Francisco Durán Ayala, the fourth such death in two years that local organizations believe are linked to the presence of Vancouver-based Pacific Rim...
