Rio Tinto has escalated a labour dispute at its aluminium smelter in Iceland by proposing that contractors be denied the right to strike. The company is also proposing to expand the use of lower paid contractors at the site.
Opponents of a proposed copper mine at the Oak Flat campground scored a point when it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places this month – but while they won the battle, they haven’t won the war.
In an unexpected announcement, mining giant Rio Tinto, the world’s second largest miner, said Thursday its chief executive, Sam Walsh, would retire on July 1 and that Jean-Sébastien Jacques, the copper and coal division boss, would take the reins of the company.
Iron ore miner Samarco, a joint venture between BHP Billiton and Vale, expects to restart production by the start of the fourth quarter, less than a year after a burst tailings dam killed 19 people in Brazil.
Organizations and civil society movements repudiate treaty signed between the mining companies Samarco/Vale/BHP and the public authorities
