Rio Tinto: No Progress, Only Hollow Talk
To mark Rio Tinto’s 2021 AGM, campaigners from five continents came together to push back against the company’s hollow talk. Rio Tinto says its a force for “human progress”, but around the world its actions tell a different story. Here we...
Mining industry takes advantage of pandemic to try to licence 13 projects at once in Minas Gerais, Brazil
On the attempt to approve 13 licencing projects at once at COPAM-MG By Gabriela Sarmet, co-founder of the Coletivo Decolonial, a researcher on socio-environmental conflicts in Latin America and an individual associate member of London Mining Network Artwork...
Mining and COVID-19 in Latin America
In June 2020, London Mining Network participated in the publication of a report, Voices from the Ground, about the ways the mining industry was using the COVID-19 pandemic to its own advantage. Meanwhile, our colleagues at OCMAL (Observatory of Mining Conflicts in...
Recording: Resisting Mining Book Club, Resource Radicals
Recorded 15/03/21 LMN was delighted to be joined by guest speaker Thea Riofrancos for the launch of the first Resisting Mining Book Club! Thea spoke about her recently published book Resource Radicals: From Petro-Nationalism to Post-Extractivism in Ecuador (Duke...