Copper Development Corporation has listed on London’s Alternative Investment Market, having raised £40.7m to develop its copper mining project in the Philippines. See...
The London-based African Minerals firm claims its efforts to mine a whopping 11.7 billion tons of iron ore will bring $1.75 billion in foreign investment to Sierra Leone. Nine years after the end of Sierra Leone’s notoriously grisly civil war, the small West...
President Obama stated that the US now “supports” the United Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. US support is no trivial change in policy, since the US was the last of the original four countries to not endorse it when the UN General Assembly...
Demonstration outside GCM Resources AGM against Phulbari Mine in Bangladesh A demonstration was held on 6 December outside the London AGM of GCM Resources against the open-cast coal mine project proposal in Phulbari, in the north west Dinajpur district of Bangladesh....
From Hansard, 2 December 2010 Baroness Miller of Chilthorne Domer said: My Lords, I am grateful to the noble Lord, Lord Alton, for drawing attention to the Conservative Human Rights Commission. Like the right reverend Prelate the Bishop of Wakefield, I was...
Australia’s mining industry – in which London-listed BHP Billiton, Rio Tinto and Xstrata play leading roles – is propagating a dark underbelly of alcohol-fuelled violence, prostitution and mental health, the first study to examine social impacts of...
