In the media there is a lot of talk about re-opening the Panguna mine but it is a different story when you are on the ground. Outsiders think that it is very simple and easy to re-open the mine after 20 thousand Mekamuians/Bougainvilleans were killed, wounded and died...
Four miners have died following an accident at Zambia’s Nchanga open pit mine, owned by London-listed Vedanta Resources, police said. Copperbelt police commanding officer Martin Malama said in an interview that police had retrieved three bodies and were still...
A South African court judgment could enable hundreds of thousands of workers, and their families, to gain compensation for deadly silicosis contracted in the country’s gold mines. Alas, the verdict arrives too late for Thembekile Mankayi, the worker who...
As the nuclear radiation disaster continues in Japan, BHP Billiton said its multi-billion expansion of the Olympic Dam copper and uranium mine in South Australia has progressed into the feasibility study phase. The move is seen as one of the surest signs to date that...
British deputy prime minister Nick Clegg says coalition will be unable to subsidise nuclear energy should current uncertainty cause investors to pull away. Britain could join a wave of countries loosening their embrace of nuclear power in the aftermath of the...
The national committee to protect oil, gas, mineral resources, ports and power enforced a six-hour road and rail blockade at Phulbari in Dinajpur, demanding implementation of its seven-point demands including compensation for Aman crops near Barapukuria coal mine...
