Third blow for Vedanta in a month as mine faces new probe In the third major blow to Vedanta in a month, the Chief Secretary of the Indian state of Odisha (formerly Orissa) has ordered a new investigation into the rights of the Dongria Kondh tribe affected by Vedanta...
A high-level Canadian civil society investigation into alleged grievous human rights abuses at a nickel mine in Guatemala in 2007 has confirmed that local people were viciously attacked by police and mine security, forcibly evicted from their homes, and that several...
Goldcorp is a Canadian company but among its major investors are British-based AXA Investment Managers UK Ltd (US$4.3 million), Blackrock Commodities Income Trust plc, and City Natural Resources High Yield Trust PLC, according to the document From Money to Metals...
The Philippines has a new President. He is the son of the national heroine, ‘Cory’ Aquino. After the pro-mining policy of previous President, Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, there are hopes that “Noynoy” (as he is popularly known) will literally bring...
AMID keen interest by big firms in the country’s mineral resources, the Philippines Government has stepped into the controversy created by a local government unit’s (LGU) decision to ban open-pit mining in the southern Philippines. The Department of Environment and...
Anglo-Swiss mining group Xstrata’s board has approved an investment of US$1.47bn to develop the Antapaccay copper project as a brownfield expansion to the Tintaya red metal mine in southern Peru’s Cuzco region. Peruvian authorities recently approved the...
