Canadian and UK companies go head-to-head over deal The “spat” between two foreign mining outfits, over which should control one of DR Congo’s most important copper lodes, has escalated – to the point that one of them is taking the other to...
Potential buyers could include trading and mining giant Glencore, whose Prodeco Colombian operations are adjacent to Drummond’s, Xstrata, which is in Colombian coal joint venture Cerrejon with Anglo American and BHP Billiton, Vale and Rio Tinto. See...
World Bank funding for coal power stations has soared 40-fold over the last five years to hit a record high of $4.4 billion in 2010, new figures reveal. Bank lending to coal-fuelled power projects significantly exceeds its financing of new renewable energy and energy...
Latin American activists who want to call attention to mining developments located in border areas will gather in Chile to “pass judgement” on projects they regard as detrimental to local communities, the environment and national security. “One of...
Gold miners are expanding their focus in Africa to the northeast of the continent, a region they largely bypassed during the decade-long rally in gold prices. Big-name gold miners such as AngloGold Ashanti Ltd (which has a secondary listing on the London Stock...
Corporate media coverage in early August of British model Naomi Campbell’s testimony at the Special War Crimes Court on Sierra Leone doesn’t provide a clue to the background of this trial against former Liberian President Charles Taylor. The ongoing tribunal, which is...
