Sunday Times reports Xstrata near to buying one of Colombia’s biggest coal miners, currently owned by US group Drummond. Xstrata remains tight-lipped over prospective acquisition. See...
Vedanta is hoping to overturn the Indian Government’s ban on mining in the sacred Niyamgiri Hills in Orissa. See video news item at http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tv/corporate/vedanta-officials-meet-pm-on-niyamgiri-mining-project/videoshow/7217066.cms.
PT Renaissance Capital is an Indonesian bank, controlled by two Indonesian citizens, both educated abroad.(It should not be confused with Russia’s Renaissance Capital to which there is no known link). In 2009, the bank acquired control of one of...
The reported discovery of gold deposits in the Indian State of Goa has got gold miners a little worked up. Will local mining companies get the first rights to mine it? See http://www.mineweb.com/mineweb/view/mineweb/en/page34?oid=118122&sn=Detail&pid=102055.
One of the most explosive wikileaks published late last year escaped the attention of many in the international media – though it was quite widely covered elsewhere, as in this article by Julio Godoy of Inter Press Service (IPS). In this particular instance,...
Further “wikileaks” may demonstrate that US embassy officials in Jakarta were genuinely concerned about “rampant corruption and human rights abuses” by the Indonesian military in West Papua over the past four years. However the cables also show...
