Rio Tinto’s new CEO, Sam Walsh, is swiftly going ahead with his plans for getting rid of non-core operations to curb costs and bolster the company’s balance sheet by putting the “for sale” sign out on portions of its Australian coal operations. The...
IndustriALL Global Union is pleased to welcome Matthew Wenban-Smith as new Managing Director of the Initiative for Responsible Mining Assurance (IRMA). The appointment marks an important milestone in establishing IRMA as the first global certification programme in the...
An operation to recover the body of a man who was killed in a mining accident in the Irish Republic is continuing, almost 48 hours after his death. Mario Francis was working in Lisheen Mine, near Thurles in County Tipperary, when the roof of a tunnel collapsed. The...
Supreme Court fines Sterlite for polluting but sets aside High Court Order Imposing a record penalty on a company for polluting the environment, the Supreme Court Tuesday ordered Sterlite Industries, a subsidiary of Britain-based Vedanta Group, to pay Rs 100 crore as...
London-based GCM Resources Plc has appointed a Malaysian ‘lobbyist’ to get the approval of the government of Bangladesh for exploration of the Phulbari coalmine. The company had failed to get approval from the relevant authorities to exploit the coalmine...
Brazil environmental watchdog charges Anglo American with a $10m fine over port accident The environmental regulator in Brazil’s northern Amapa state (Imap) has fined Anglo American with a $10 million (20m Brazilian reais) fine over last week’s accident...
BHP Billiton expects South African power utility Eskom to honour deals that are letting the mining giant buy electricity for its smelters at just over half the cost of production, the company said on Wednesday. Eskom, which needs to generate cash to build new power...
In May 2010, the world’s largest mining company, BHP-Billiton, was accused of bribing the Cambodian government four years earlier, by shelling out US$3.5 million which never appeared on government books – and didn’t result in any benefit to the...
Loose Anti Opencast Network (LAON) press release, 2 April 2013 Since this Government was elected, its attitude to opencast mine applications in England has, from the point of view of objectors, gone from bad to worse. Firstly we had the imposition of the new National...
Glencore said last Tuesday it had again extended the date by which it expects to close its merger with Xstrata, due to the ongoing investigation into the deal in China. Glencore has been waiting for several months for China, the biggest buyer of the materials it...
Mining is being highlighted for the forthcoming elections, with a focus on the candidates’ views over the siting of a coal-fired power plant, required for Xstrata’s deeply controversial Tampakan mine. See...
Last week UK Tar Sands Network activists paid a visit to UK Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg’s office to hand in a petition with nearly 4,000 signatures, urging the government to support the inclusion of tar sands in the EU Fuel Quality Directive. They had teamed up...
