Before Christmas, environmental groups called foul on the World Bank for even considering a proposal to finance a new coal-fired power plant in Mongolia. Funding Rio Tinto’s Oyu Tolgoi copper and gold mine project, which also includes a 750 megawatt coal plant,...
A South African lawyer has moved to file a class action suit against more than 30 gold firms on behalf of 17,000 former miners who say they contracted the debilitating lung disease silicosis due to negligence in health and safety. The companies include...
Evidence has emerged that police who mowed down striking Lonmin workers in the “Marikana Massacre” last August, deliberately shot their victims, without taking any steps to arrest them. See http://www.minesandcommunities.org/article.php?a=12072....
A new contribution framework negotiated between London-listed mineral resource giant Xstrata and the Espinar community regarding the company’s Tintaya-Antapaccay copper mine in Peru’s Cuzco region is to be included in the agreements reached with local...
Washington-based group, Global Financial Integrity, in its report revealed that more than £5 billion (K40 trillion) had been illegally siphoned out of Zambia over 10 years, with most of it ending up in offshore banks and tax havens. Among the mining companies active...
Unionized workers at the BHP Billiton-controlled Escondida copper mine in northern Chile’s region II have rejected the offer from management as part of the ongoing early collective contract negotiations. See...
Canada’s Globe and Mail newspaper investigates rumours of a mysterious plague down-river from a giant gold mine in remote Papua New Guinea, and uncovers disturbing questions about the flow of benefits from the resources boom. The Ok Tedi mine was previously...
BHP Billiton, Barrick Gold, Sesuveca del Peru and local Cia de Minas Buenaventura SAA were the four mining firms that won the largest number of Peruvian exploration concessions in 2012, reports local newspaper Gestion. See...
This posting includes two statements from the recent UN Forum on Business and Human Rights, held in Geneva and sponsored by the new UN Working Group on Human Rights and Transnational Corporations. The first is by the Indigenous Peoples and Extractive Industries...
Latest figures from the Department of Energy Climate Change have confirmed that Scotland’s renewable energy industry is now the second largest source of our electricity production, beating both coal and gas for the first time. See...
2011 was a year where many metals and minerals were hitting all-time record prices, most companies had more cash than they knew what to do with and in some parts of the world mine workers wouldn’t ge out of bed for less than six-figures. 2012 was always going to...
21 December 2012 Report and reflection by Richard Solly, London Mining Network Yesterday was nearly the shortest day, and the weather in London was heavy, grey and wet, and inside the GCM Resources AGM everyone felt gloomy. Company Chairman Gerard Holden had a cold,...
