Introduction by Nostromo Research Much of the data included here is already summarised in the Mines and Communities publication “Dark Materials”. See: http://www.minesandcommunities.org/article.php?a=10299. That research also provides much detail on coal imports and...
GCM claims negotiations with Bangladesh Government GCM Resources, previously known as Asia Energy, has claimed that it is negotiating coal extraction from Phulbari with the government. “GCM is ready to move the Phulbari Project forward when the government...
Private security personnel employed at the Porgera gold mine in Papua New Guinea have been implicated in alleged gang rapes and other violent abuses, Human Rights Watch said in a report. The Porgera mine has produced billions of dollars of gold in its twenty years of...
– if not through the fields of Academe India’s home-grown, but foreign-fed, mining supremo Anil Agarwal never lets the opportunity slip to postpone the (almost) inevitable. His UK-listed company, Vedanta, backed by the Orissa state government and local...
More than 20 of the world’s biggest investment banks will pitch for roles on a potential $8bn London listing of a state-owned Mongolian coal mine. Bankers from HSBC, Deutsche, Credit Suisse, Citi and Macquarie are among those who will submit written proposals...
COAL is so popular that it makes for odd bedfellows. In November Nat Rothschild, a member of a prominent European banking dynasty, announced a tie-up with one of South-East Asia’s most controversial tycoons. Aburizal Bakrie is the patriarch of a scrum of companies...
