Over 100 demonstrators gathered outside of the La Moneda presidential palace in Chile to call attention to a hunger strike against London-listed mining company Antofagasta that had lasted nearly two months with minimal, if any, media coverage. See...
International media exposure acts like oxygen and helps to optimise the effect of people’s agitations against rampaging multinational corporations, according to a leading Indian documentary filmmaker. This helped defeat Vedanta in the Niyamgiri Hills. See...
How the London Metal Exchange, which can be traced back to the reign of Elizabeth I, became the global centre of metals trading. See http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/industry/mining/8179224/London-Metal-Exchange-a-history.html.
On Wednesday 1 December, in London, awards will be presented to those in the mining industry who have most impressed the world’s mining financiers. The Outstanding Achievement Awards are sponsored by industry publication the Mining Journal. Critics of the mining...
On 26 November 2010 the North Gauteng High Court in South Africa was due to hear an urgent application by members of the Sekuruwe Community for an interdict to stop Anglo American subsidiary Anglo Platinum’s PPL Mine near Mokopane in the Limpopo Province from dumping...
On Tuesday, November 23, Indigenous Peoples from across Latin America released The Lima Declaration, a unified position calling for an end to large-scale surface mining by transnational companies on Indigenous Peoples’ lands. Indigenous representatives from the...
