Rio Tinto’s Palabora signs long-awaited BEE framework with five communities Rio Tinto mining company Palabora has announced the signing of a transaction framework agreement (TFA) for a long-awaited black economic empowerment (BEE) deal with five local Phalaborwa...
The Investors’ Chronicle (UK) reports that results for Vedanta Resources’ full year to March 2009 revealed good financial health in spite of the commodity market collapse. Plunging metals prices meant a $1.4bn (£929m) drop in earnings, but...
Set on India’s west coast, Goa is renowned as a beach paradise popular with Indian and foreign tourists alike. Just a few miles inland from the quaint restaurants and the pristine waves lapping the silver shores of India’s smallest state, iron-ore mining...
London Calling on a copper conundrum which probably isn’t We may be forgiven for failing to understand the forces which, over the past half year of the collapse of debt “securitisation”, have stimulated an increase in the bought price of some certain...
LMN member group Forest Peoples’ Programme has made a submission to the UK Parliament’s Joint Committee on Human Rights inquiry into business and human rights. FPP’s submission deals with Indigenous Peoples and the right to Free, Prior and Informed...
The UK Parliament’s Joint Committee on Human Rights (JCHR) called in March for evidence to be presented to an inquiry into business and human rights. The JCHR’s call for evidence is posted below London Mining Network’s submission. 1 May 2009...
