Victory for farmers as Caroona coal mine cancelled
Liverpool Plains’ farmers are celebrating the New South Wales state government’s decision, on August 11, to buy back BHP Billiton’s Caroona coalmine licence for $220 million.
Acacia Mining leadership crisis deepens further – Chief Legal Counsel disappears
According to Acacia’s last published financial report, as at 30 June 2016, the Group was a defendant in approximately 255 lawsuits. The total amounts claimed from lawsuits in which specific monetary damages are sought amounted to US$234.9 million. The Group’s Legal Counsel is defending the Group’s current position, and the outcome of the lawsuits cannot presently be determined.
McArthur River Mine expansion approval process should halt for inquiry: report
Indigenous residents in Australia’s Gulf of Carpentaria have taken what they hope will be a pre-emptive strike in the battle over whether the Glencore-controlled McArthur River Mine (MRM) will be allowed to continue expanding.
ABG to Challenge Rio Tinto in International Courts
The Autonomous Bougainville Government will challenge Rio Tinto in the international courts, for failing to address the serious mine legacy issues of environmental damage, social disruption and detrimental health problems.
Tigers hold up Rio Tinto’s diamond mining plans in Madhya Pradesh
The Indian government has shelved granting permission to mining corporation Rio Tinto to open a diamond mine in Madhya Pradesh, saying the plan endangers a rich forest area and a tiger corridor between the Panna Tiger Reserve and Nauradehi Wildlife Sanctuary.