The San Carlos Apache Tribe is organizing an all-out campaign to stop the transfer of Oak Flat, its 2,400-acre sacred ceremonial and burial site since time immemorial, to Resolution Copper, a subsidiary of the giant global mining corporation Rio Tinto (and with involvement also of BHP Billiton).
On a remote farm deep in the Peruvian Andes, in a region where sheep outnumber people by a comfortable margin, a very small woman is foiling the plans of one of the biggest mining companies in the world – Newmont, a US company with significant UK investment, including by Blackrock World Mining Trust and AXA Investment Managers UK.
There has been a fire at Rio Tinto’s Rössing mine, following on earlier problems such as the failure of a leach tank in 2013.
There has been a fire at Rio Tinto’s Rössing mine, following on earlier problems such as the failure of a leach tank in 2013.
Among the bidders are some notorious domestic mining companies and steel producers, including (unsurprisingly) GVK and the Adani Group – now also trying to raise funds to plunder Queensland coal – and the Adita Birla and Naveen Jindal groups. But, ahead of the pack, is the British company, Vedanta Resources, along with its subsidiaries iron producer Sesa Sterlite and alumininium giant BALCO.
