With sacrificial blood stained rice in their hands tribals took ritualistic vow at the top of Niyamgiri hill in Kalahandi district in the Indian state of Orissa to lay down their lives to protect their ‘Niyam Raja’ from destruction by proposed mining for...
BOUGAINVILLE’S feared rebel Me’ekamui hardliner Chris Uma has lashed out at the Autonomous Bougainville Government and the Panguna landowners for talking about the mine re-opening before addressing outstanding issues. Mr Uma, who still has a big following in...
Global mining giant BHP Billiton has agreed to buy shale gas interests from Chesapeake Energy Corp for $4.75 billion in its first move into shale gas as it looks to beef up its oil and gas business. In BHP’s first big acquisition since a string of failed deals,...
BHP Billiton CEO Marius Kloppers had a lot of analysts scratching their heads after he revealed BHP Billiton planned to spend $US80 billion investing in its current portfolio over the next five years. Even though Kloppers nominated, without specifics, the broad areas...
After thriving outside of the limelight for four decades, the omnipresent commodities trading house Glencore is considering a listing on the London Stock Exchange. Given its impeccable timing, does it mean the top of the commodities cycle? See...
Further wikileaks reveal an even bigger “conspiracy” than earlier thought, on the part of western diplomats to undermine campaigns against mining in the Americas. The diplomats – from the U.S., Canada, U.K., Australia, Switzerland and South Africa...
