ERA is a subsidiary of Rio Tinto, and mines uranium. An agreement has been signed with aboriginal landowners after many years of conflict. To state that traditional owners are ‘happy’ with the deal, as this article does, seems to be overdoing it. However,...
Papuan civilians around Timika have again been made wary of military provocations that may potentially revive a bloody horizontal conflict, after a former Freeport mine worker’s mutilated body was found in a roadside trench on January 19. The mine is operated by...
Indian Environment and Forests Minister Jayanthi Natarajan and Tribal Affairs Minister Kishore Chandra Deo both reportedly plan to oppose any dilution of tribal rights in forest areas. This, despite the fact that their respective secretaries have signed on to a deal...
THE LOOSE ANTI OPENCAST NETWORK Press Release 20, 4 February 2013 Today, the Loose Anti Opencast Network publishes its monthly review of potential and actual applications for new opencast or surface mine sites across the UK. It reveals that there are plans for 47 new...
London-listed GCM Resources’ subsidiary Asia Energy has been accused by a Bangladesh parliamentary committee of having no valid deal since 2006 with the government for any exploration or mining in Phulbari. The parliamentary standing committee on power, energy...
Resistance to Eldorado’s Halkidiki mine has continued to act as a lightning rod for those who are concerned about the sacrifices that are being asked of the Greeks in the name of ‘development’. One concerned citizen noted that “This will be a...
The manager of a coalmine in south Wales where four men died after it flooded has been charged with gross negligence manslaughter, the Crown Prosecution Service has announced. Malcolm Fyfield, 57, is accused over the deaths at the Gleision mine, in the Swansea valley,...
When South Africa’s apartheid police massacred 69 people in Sharpeville in 1960, the revulsion spread as far as northern England. James Nichol, then 15, took part in his first street protest. “I remember there were about 20 of us and I think we marched in...
A new year in Guatemala; same problems of violence, repression and impunity related to mining. The first two weeks of January witnessed outbreaks of violent protests and attacks at three mining operations. Dozens have been wounded; at least 3 people have been killed....
South Africa should nationalize mines that Anglo American Platinum Ltd will idle in plans by the biggest producer of the metal to return to profitability, a union claiming the majority of workers at the company said. The Association of Mineworkers and Construction...
The quote from PNG Prime Minister Peter O’Neill is telling: “11 years ago, BHP Billiton was done an enormous favour by the then PNG government and allowed to exit ownership of the Ok Tedi Mine without accepting any financial or moral, responsibility for...
Canadian citizen Michael Bailey is described as “an experienced investor and resident of Canada…an algorithmic trader and formerly a member of the Band of Scoundrels, an elite group of high frequency proprietary traders that successfully shorted Citigroup...
