Annual Gathering, 22 June 2022 – Save the Date!
On 22 June, we look forward to welcoming our friends and supporters to our Annual Gathering. This year, our speakers will include guests from Espinar, Peru. They will be speaking about their experiences of living with and resisting a Glencore mining operation. The...
Launched Today: Safety First, 2nd Edition
Today 157 scientists, community groups, Indigenous peoples and civil society groups endorsed an updated set of guidelines for improving the management of mine waste disposal facilities, also known as tailings dams. Based on consultation with over 200 stakeholders and...
Fresnillo AGM 2022: company denies responsibility
At its AGM on 17 May, Fresnillo says it is not responsible for the irregular occupation of the lands and violence in the ejido of El Bajío, Mexico. Delegation from El Bajio at the Fresnillo AGM with LMN workers For background, see Mexican delegation visits London to...
Mexican delegation visits London to attend Fresnillo AGM.
A delegation from Sonora in Mexico visited London in mid-May to attend the AGM of mining company Fresnillo plc. They also held meetings with human rights organisations and authorities. The Mexican delegation, made up of four ejidatarios from El Bajío in Sonora,...
Free the Bruno Stream! An ongoing effort.
The diverted course of the Arroyo Bruno (Bruno Stream) in July 2019 By Diana Salazar British-based lawyers’ groups have presented an amicus curiae to the Colombian Constitutional Court in support of the protection of the Bruno Stream, which has been diverted by the...
Brazil: Solidarity with the Yanomami
Yanomami maloca – Photo: Survival International By Gabriela Sarmet Today we demonstrate our support for the 30th anniversary of the demarcation of the Yanomami Indigenous Land, the largest Brazilian indigenous territory that historically suffers from...
Antofagasta AGM 2022: slightly changed appearance, unchanged reality
Report on the Antofagasta AGM, London, 11 May 2022 By Richard Solly, Co-ordinator, London Mining Network, with assistance from Cristian Olmos and Javiera Martinez Antofagasta’s first in-person AGM for three years included elements of continuity and elements of...
Antofagasta Minerals: Conflict & Court Cases
Antofagasta Minerals faces a lawsuit in Chile for over-extraction of water and continues to generate conflicts in the Caimanes community. “Luksic (Antofagasta Minerals) pays, the State oppresses and the media are silent” Caimanes resists” Credit: Consejo de...
Rio Tinto‘s Australian AGM 2022: opposite side of the world, same message
Friends in Australia tackled Rio Tinto’s board on numerous issues at the company’s 5 May AGM, building on the interactions at the London AGM on 8 April. The company’s responses were similarly unimpressive. Notes were taken of the Question and Answer...
Colombian delegation attends Glencore AGM to present demands over Bruno Creek
Rosa María Mateus from CAJAR, Stephan Suhner from ASK, Diana Salazar from Colombia Solidarity Campaign, Samuel Arregoces from Tabaco, Javiera Martinez from London Mining Network, Claudia Blanco and Daniel Morón from Sintracarbon On Thursday, 28 April, the Glencore...