(Source: Miningwatch Canada newsletter Summer 2010) On March 31, 2010, the Government of Mongolia signed an investment agreement with Rio Tinto International Holdings Limited and Ivanhoe Mines Ltd. for the development of a massive gold/copper mine. On April 1, 2010,...
The Collaboration Agreement, signed 12 July, 2010, between the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) and Rio Tinto London Limited (Rio Tinto) commits IUCN and Rio Tinto to focus their collaborative projects on innovative and ground-breaking...
Should a price be put on the planet? Absolutely not, according to a commentary made on the Mines and Communities website last month: http://www.minesandcommunities.org/article.php?a=10166. Maybe, perhaps, perhaps not. That’s the apparent (lack of) conclusion to...
In May 2010 DanWatch issued a report on the alleged negative social & environmental impacts of the Cerrejon coal mine in northern Colombia, which supplies coal to DONG Energy and Vattenfall. Lawyer Armando Perez, working on behalf of the community of Tabaco, which...
Following a recent African conference, a substantial number of organisations, supported by their overseas colleagues, are calling for “the promotion and protection of community rights, the environment, and realisation of the aspirations of African peoples”...
London-listed mining firm Randgold Resources says it is to begin mining Africa’s largest undeveloped gold deposit – in eastern DR Congo. The mine will require the re-location of 15,000 people, but Randgold says the project has the support of the government...
