China’s coal mining causes birth defects, says Beijing professor A Chinese health and environment professor has attributed the country’s excessive rise in development deficiencies among newborn children, to pollution caused by coal mining. See...
Commentary by Nostromo Research, 1st July 2009 If anything is certain in mining, it’s that nothing is certain. Rio Tinto recently reneged on its deal with Chinalco, which would have seen this massive Chinese state enterprise acquiring nearly 20% of the...
Analyst Simon Hunt expects lower prices will soon be seen in an “increasingly volatile marketplace for the metal”; and, with the global economy facing a renewed downturn, prices may dive from 2011 onwards – indeed, may actually collapse by then. Not...
Seven years ago, the operations of Freeport-Rio Tinto at the world’s most controversial mine hit international headlines. This wasn’t because of the massive toll in human rights and environmental abuses over the past three and more decades, caused by the...
See press release below from World Development Movement, PLATFORM and People & Planet. See related press coverage: Financial Times: http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/8007e284-64ef-11de-a13f-00144feabdc0.html?nclick_check=1 The Herald:...
The Church of England and one of Britain’s leading charities have been revealed as shareholders in a London-based company behind a controversial aluminium mine in India which campaigners allege will wreak environmental destruction. Vedanta Resources, a FTSE 100...
