The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria is backing one of Africa’s biggest mining companies in carrying out a malarial control programme in Ghana. Its decision is – to say the least – “baffling” the country’s NGO...
The Colombian government has ended Greystar Resources Ltd.’s bid to develop a gold and silver project in a northern highland area, Energy and Mines Minister Carlos Rodado said. The firm’s plans to mine for precious metals in the Santurban paramo, or Andean...
A leading figure in Zimbabwe’s Movement for Democratic Change has condemned Anglo American subsidiary Anglo Platinum along with South African companies Impala Platinum and Old Mutual for alleged complicity in abuses in Zimbabwe. The company rejects his...
Sir Julius Chan is the Governor of New Ireland Province in Papua New Guinea, and one of the country’s most senior political figures. Now, Chan joins his voice to growing criticisms of the world’s biggest proposed sea-bed mining project, declaring:...
Last month’s Fraser Institute report on mining (2009/2010) showed that more than 43% of mining company respondents rated gold as their number one targeted commodity. However, just three weeks later, a survey carried out by Barclays Capital (Barcap) – one...
BHP Billiton has approved the expansion of three key metallurgical coal projects located in the Bowen basin in Central Queensland, Australia. The projects will add 4.9 million tonnes of annual mine capacity (100% basis) through development of the Daunia operation and...
