Goodnight children – sleep well: the 2016 Rio Tinto AGM
Rio Tinto CEO Sam Walsh By Richard Solly, Co-ordinator, London Mining Network (LMN) If you are a parent and your children find it difficult to go off to sleep at night, you may consider asking Sam Walsh to read them a bedtime story. A few paragraphs would surely...
Conflict Minerals: Almost 42,000 Europeans demand a mandatory regulation
The Stop Mad Mining coalition has handed over your 41,675 signatures that call on the EU to tackle the deadly trade in conflict minerals (see: https://londonminingnetwork.org/conflict-minerals-petition/). The hand-over took place in Brussels, first to Roland Roosdrop...
EU countries must not weaken plan to stop conflict minerals trade
The following is an opinion piece, written by Abbot Léonard Santedi, the Secretary General of the Bishops Conference of the Democratic Republic of Congo, commenting on the current state of negotiations with in the European Union about conflict minerals. CIDSE, the...
BHP Billiton agrees to pay out over Samarco disaster, but legal action continues
For earlier updates, see https://londonminingnetwork.org/2016/02/updates-on-bhp-billitons-brazilian-dam-disaster/. BHP agrees to $US2.3b Samarco settlement BHP Billiton’s Samarco joint venture will pay up to $US2.3 billion ($A3.15 billion) over six years after...