Uranium workers dying after time at Rio Tinto's Namibia mine, report warns
Miners who dug ore to supply the military found to be dying of cancers and other illnesses at Rio Tinto’s Rössing mine
Miners who dug ore to supply the military found to be dying of cancers and other illnesses at Rio Tinto’s Rössing mine
Miners who dug ore to supply the military found to be dying of cancers and other illnesses at Rio Tinto’s Rössing mine
Yesterday more than 40 protesters from Foil Vedanta, the Afrikan diaspora and other organisations in London chanted, played drums and held banners and placards outside the Zambia High Commission in London. They demanded that some of the revelations in Foil Vedanta’s groundbreaking report Copper Colonialism: British Miner Vedanta KCM and the copper loot of Zambia are addressed by Vedanta and the Zambian government, and asked the UK Government to formally investigate the company.
Its that time of year again, where Rio Tinto subsidiary Bougainville Copper Limited (BCL) celebrates its impunity from prosecution by declaring its resolve to re-enter Bougainville and scoop up what’s left of the mineral deposit they were forced to leave, when landowners closed their environmentally catastrophic operation.
Global miner Rio Tinto will give away its 19.1 percent stake in Northern Dynasty Minerals Ltd, owner of the undeveloped Pebble copper-gold project in Alaska, Northern Dynasty said on Monday.