Australia: Aboriginal protestors arrested over Rio Tinto mine expansion
Protesters rallying against a controversial Upper Hunter mine expansion have slammed the arrest of two Aboriginal elders who have been charged with resisting arrest.
Cerrejon coal in Colombia: rehabilitating the land, removing the humans
Cerrejon is the largest opencast mine in Latin America and is owned by three mining companies listed on the London Stock Exchange: Anglo American, BHP Billiton and Glencore – all among the biggest mining companies in the world.
How KCM is killing the Zambian Copperbelt
In October 2015 Foil Vedanta visited Vedanta’s Zambian subsidiary Konkola Copper Mines (KCM) for the second time to investigate the legacy of pollution that has destroyed the environment and livelihoods around Chingola since 2004, when Vedanta bought controlling shares in KCM. KCM is Africa’s largest copper mine and the largest mining company in the copper dependent economy of Zambia.
South African gold firms file plea to appeal lung disease class action
Six South African gold miners filed petitions to the Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA) to review a May ruling allowing the country’s biggest-ever class action to go ahead.
Flaws in Botswana’s Diamond Industry
Botswana owns a 15 percent share in De Beers (controlled by London-listed Anglo American), an unprecedented entangling of a sovereign country with a private company. Investigative reporter Khadija Sharife reveals a mutual dependence between the diamond giant, Botswana, and the country’s leading party that has perverted democracy and created an opaque revenue system that costs the southern African nation millions of dollars every year.