Though Not Yet Open, Rio Tinto’s Huge Mine Is Transforming Mongolia’s Landscape In the dry expanses of southern Mongolia, a handful of large blue buildings are clustered together, ringed only by a thin metal fence. A single plane sits on an airstrip, while power...
The Philippine Government has issued its new rules to implement the President’s Executive Order No. 79 on mining. Despite assertions that these will settle the issue of Xstrata’s Tampakan project being blocked by the local government, it seems they...
Rio Tinto’s uranium subsidiary Energy Resources of Australia (ERA) has denied claims it is expanding operations without environmental assessments. It comes as the Environment Centre NT (ECNT) and the Australian Conservation Foundation accuse the miner of...
The third draft of “Guidelines for Corporations Operating in Burma” has been submitted to “Civil Society Organizations and Shareholders Addressing Corporations in Burma” by the US Campaign for Burma Committee on SRI at the Unitarian Universalist Association....
London-listed South African miner AngloGold Ashanti sees its project pipeline in Colombia as one of three key priorities, CEO Mark Cutifani said during a presentation at the Denver Gold Forum. See...
The 7th Press Release from the Loose Anti Opencast Network explains why a Planning Inspectors decision on an Opencast Site Planning Application in a remote part of England has implications for all mineral planning applications across the country and not just those 5...
Live updates from protests against Koodankulam nuclear plant in India http://www.dianuke.org/live-from-idinthakarai-koodankulam/ Japan Targets End to Nuclear Power by 2040 http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390443524904577651060130687708.html
Why is Papua New Guinea resource rich, yet its citizens poor? Yet another report attempts to tackle this perennial question – this time addressing issues around the huge Porgera mine, run by Canadian company Barrick Gold (in which there is major British...
Three managers from Bolivia’s state-owned mining company were taken hostage by residents of a village in the region of Potusi, who are demanding a 15% stake in the region’s silver mine part-owned and operated by Glencore. The three were later released. See...
On Friday commodities giant Glencore raised its offer minutes before a vote on its merger with diversified miner Xstrata were to take place in the Swiss village of Zug. Following pressure from major Xstrata shareholder Qatar, Glencore upped its offer from 2.8 to 3.05...
ethecon Awards 2012 The ethecon Black Planet Award 2012 goes to the senior manager Ivan Glasenberg (CEO), Simon Murray (Chairman) and Tony Hayward (committee for environment, health and safety) as well as the major shareholders of the GLENCORE Corporation,...
Anti-riot police shot dead two civilians at the North Mara Gold Mine which is operated by London-listed African Barrick Gold (ABG) in the Northern Tarime District. Mara Regional Police Commander for Tarime Special Police Zone, Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP)...
