Chilean copper exports up 2.2% to 4.11Mt in first nine months

The local operations of Xstrata Copper, a subsidiary of London-listed Xstrata, saw exports increase 19.5% to 165,700t. Exports from Anglo American Chile’s northern operations – the Mantos Blancos and Mantoverde mines – jumped 42.3% to 152,500t....

Congolese victims strike Anvil in Canada

A class action suit has been filed in Canada against a domestic company, accused of complicity in one of the worst recorded atrocities of the recent bloody conflicts in DR Congo. It is alleged that, in 2004, Anvil Mining (then listed on the Australian stock exchange)...

World's Police Unite for Environmental Crime Crackdown

Introduction by mining researcher Roger Moody “This sends a very strong message to those who seek to rob countries of their natural resources”. Thus declared John Scanlon, Secretary-General of CITES, following   INTERPOL’s  presentation of its “Environmental Crime...

News on Phulbari

In the Phulbari area of Northwest Bangladesh, communities have come together to raise their voices against the proposed Phulbari Coal Project, which threatens to turn this fertile agricultural region into an open-pit coal mine.  If implemented, the mine would have...

Call to stop fossil fuel subsidy

A global energy think tank has urged nations to stop subsidising fossil fuels as soon as possible. See http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-11718304?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter