London-listed Churchill Mining plc has been in bitter dispute with Indonesian authorities over control of one of the country’s largest coal deposits. Now, the company is threatening to resort to international arbitration. See...
Several shareholders have filed a resolution with Goldcorp Inc asking the company to commit to the full costs of closure of the Marlin mine in Guatemala, and to fully disclose its closure plans. They indicate that to do otherwise puts the health of local communities...
Peru’s highest court has declared that the left-wing regional government of Cajamarca overstepped its bounds when it recently rejected the country’s biggest proposed mining project. However, a team of environmental auditors has criticised the existing mine...
Dozens of student demonstrators pelted the office of Newmont Nusa Tenggara (NNT) after a court ruling allowing the US company to continue dumping tailings in a nearby bay. A year ago, several environmental organisations urged the government to ban the practice. They...
The state government of Odisha (Orissa) in India has initiated the process of withdrawal of notifications for acquisition of 438 acres of private land in seven villages in the project site near Paradip. The recent verdict of Odisha High Court would compel the state...
Air pollution is prematurely killing 13,000 people a year in Britain compared with fewer than 2,000 deaths a year from road accidents, a major study from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has concluded. Of these, cars and lorries are thought to be responsible...
Fuel companies say drilling for shale gas is safe, clean and could meet our energy needs for 100 years. So why are people so worried about earthquakes and pollution? See http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/apr/17/whats-the-truth-about-fracking.
Billionaire Robert Friedland resigned as chief executive officer of Ivanhoe Mines Ltd. (IVN) as the company struck a deal with its majority shareholder Rio Tinto Group (RIO) on funding for its $6 billion Mongolian copper mine. See...
Buried in the Gobi Desert, Mongolia’s economic future rests on a massive mining project called Turquoise Hill. Known locally as Oyu Tolgoi, the copper and gold mine, co-owned by Vancouver-based Ivanhoe Mines Ltd. and the Mongolian government, is expected to balloon...
Bougainville Copper Limited, or BCL, is a subsidiary of Rio Tinto. Last month the President of the European Shareholders of Bougainville Copper (ESBC) Axel Sturm publicly raised concerns over the volatility of BCL’s share prices. In an interview with PNG Industry...
Mining companies active in Kazakhstan have urged authorities to remove bureaucratic hurdles to investment in order to encourage overdue exploration of prospective metals deposits in the Central Asian state. Companies including global mining giant Rio Tinto and...
The world’s leading mineworkers federation, ICEM, has vigorously condemned recent attacks against employees of one of Indonesia’s biggest mines. A military brigade, serving the interests of London-listed Bumi Resources, has allegedly severely beaten twenty...
