About 5000 people demonstrate in province capital of Salamanca, Spain, against Retortillo uranium mine project
The project is being pursued by Australian company Berkeley Energia, which trades on London’s Alternaive Investment Market.
Tyrone gold mine extension based on inaccurate maps, court hears
Resident appeals failure to halt underground work at Omagh Minerals site
The European Parliament adopts resolution on international ocean governance.
Requests international moratorium on deep sea mining and asks EU countries to invest in sustainable consumption and production instead.
The writing is on the wall for Solwara 1 – PNG should withdraw
Amid financial strife and looming litigation, Sir Arnold Amet, former Papua New Guinean Attorney General and Minister for Justice advises the PNG Government to terminate its joint partnership agreement with Nautilus, recoup its 15% stake in the Solwara 1 deep sea mining project and decline to renew the licences for Solwara 1. Anglo American is a shareholder in Nautilus.
Forgetting Marikana: What does Ramaphosa’s rise mean for poor South Africans?
On the 16 August 2012, 34 miners from Lonmin’s platinum mine in Marikana were shot and killed. They were on strike demanding a living wage. At the time, Ramaphosa was a director and shareholder in Lonmin PLC, a platinum mining company listed on the London Stock Exchange and with deep roots in apartheid South Africa’s mining industry.