London-listed miner ENRC, controlled by a group of Kazakh billionaires, is eager to improve its reputation as details of the nature of its deals – particularly in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) – continue to emerge. Controversy surrounds ENRC’s (Eurasian...
Its been a bad couple of weeks for the coal industry in Scotland – both of its big opencast producers, also the two biggest producers in the UK, are in severe financial difficulty. Once again though, its blue-collar workers who will bear the brunt of these companies...
Anglo De Beers put in the frame The Kimberley Certification Process (KP) was ostensibly designed to keep “blood diamonds” off global markets. Not only has it failed to do so, but it is actively promoting the human rights atrocities it pledged to wipe out....
The company says it is delaying dismissals at its Union and Amandelbult mines but will not reinstate the 12,000 workers fired at its Rustenburg mines. See http://www.mineweb.com/mineweb/view/mineweb/en/page504?oid=160444&sn=Detail&pid=92730.
Global credit rating firm Standard and Poor’s (S&P) downgraded Wednesday its outlook on Anglo American PLC to negative from stable as a result of growing concerns about the effects of South Africa’s mining strikes on the company’s mining operations and...
United Nations Development Program (UNDP) representative, Valerie Julliand, announced that it has agreed to the Dominican Republic government’s request to review Xstrata Nickel’s environmental impact study for the Loma Miranda project, located in the country’s...
It was a billion dollar deal that was supposed to bring two famous business dynasties together – one from the East and the other the West. Nat Rothschild, descendant of the founder of the two-centuries old banking empire, used his family name to get big players –...
Down To Earth is a magazine published by Delhi’s well-reputed Centre for Science and Environment (and not to be confused with UK-based LMN member group Down to Earth, which works on Indonesia). The magazine has just presented an in-depth report on the multiple...
Trade unionists – including members of the world’s largest mining unions – have committed themselves to “enforce minimum social standards in order to make globalisation more humane”. Uniting under the banner of the new IndustriALL...
Ghana’s National Coalition on Mining (NCOM) held its annual forum on October 3, 2012 at New Abirim in the country’s eastern region. New Abirim is host to Newmont Ghana Gold Limited, one of four large-scale mining companies operating open-pit gold mines in...
The Government has been accused of planning a U-turn on energy policy by writing “blank cheques” for new nuclear power stations after promising it would offer no subsidies to the industry. The Government has previously promised not to subsidise the nuclear...
THE LOOSE ANTI OPEN-CAST NETWORK HOUSE OF COMMONS COMMITTEE ASKED TO TOUGHEN RULES GOVERNING WHERE NEW OPENCAST MINES CAN BE LOCATED – NOT WEAKEN THEM. LAON PR2012 -10 18/10/12 Yesterday, the Communities and Local Government Select Committee published the...
