Scientific American provides a detailed, hypothetical response to the question which has no doubt crossed the mind of anyone involved with the mining sector – how long before the Earth’s bounty of resources runs out? See...
London Calling has long pooh-poohed claims of aluminium being the “greenest metal”, uniquely suited to the engineering of sustainable development outcomes. Such a false assertion was made recently by India’s largest producer of the metal. Vedanta...
The prospects of London-listed Canadian miner Nautilus Minerals delivering its proposed Solwara 1 seabed mine in Papua New Guinea (PNG) look increasingly bleak as details emerge of the extent of the dispute between the miner and the PNG government. The PNG government...
Peru’s president Ollanta Humala is taking steps to change the mining industry in Peru that will hopefully contribute to reducing mining-related conflicts in the country. Carlos Monge, from the network of Globilisation with Equality, writes in Diario La Primera...
… although State of Emergency continues in Cajamarca Peru Peruvian Prime Minister Juan Jimenez confirmed to the press that the Conga project “has entered a suspension phase, as you may know, a phase that the company decided upon, of course by request of...
The National Congress of Australia’s First Peoples organised a forum to review relations with Australian Indigenous Peoples and the extractive industries. Among the companies represented were Rio Tinto and BHP Billiton. See...
The final fate of BHP Billiton’s Olympic Dam mine expansion remains fraught with uncertainty in the wake of the company’s announcement last week that it was shelving the project due to cost factors. See...
A delegation of Canadian parliamentarians was to meet recently with Guatemala’s Legislative Committee for Energy and Mines. The President of the Legislative Commission said: “We will have a chance to meet them in the afternoon to discuss various positions...
The recent historic announcement by the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) implementing Section 1504 of the Dodd Frank Act is of huge importance for women and men in developing countries. After tireless campaigning, some of the world’s poorest people will now...
Marikana mine strike: South Africa court frees miners About 50 South African miners have been freed after murder charges against them, relating to the deaths of 34 miners shot by police, were dropped. Prosecutors decided to provisionally set aside charges against 270...
South Africa’s Ba-Phalaborwa Indigenous Community is demanding justice from Rio Tinto for years of mining without the community’s consent and for its planned exit from the Palabora copper mine without paying adequate compensation for loss of lands and livelihoods....
