Anglo American Platinum has, according to South Africa’s National union of Mineworkers, raised its pay offer to workers in attempt to ward off threatened strike action. See http://www.mineweb.com/mineweb/view/mineweb/en/page35?oid=133851&sn=Detail.
Huntington Lane is a site near Telford in the English West Midlands where protesters are trying to stop opencast coal mining by UK Coal. The national eviction team came onto the site on 19 August, escorted support crew off and took down ground structures. See...
On 18 August ten people arrived unannounced at the offices of Cairn Energy at the Clydesdale Plaza in central Edinburgh. They installed themselves at the grand entrance to the building, blowing whistles and shouting: “No oil for Vedanta! Stop, stop, stop the deal!”...
If anything is certain about the stances of Australian politicans on coal mining and coal-seam gas exploitation, it’s that nothing is certain. The country’s powerful farmers’ federation wants the right to negotiate access to their land by mining...
If you put together the 2010 uranium output from mines owned by Rio Tinto (in Namibia and Australia), along with output from BHP Billiton’s Olympic Dam mine in South Australia, these two London-listed companies rank equally (at 16%) with Cameco (Canada) and Areva ...
As the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear catastrophe that began on March 11, 2011 now continues beyond 161 days, news accounts indicate that the accident maybe worsening and the scope of radioactive contamination widening. See...
Despite a report in a UK newspaper that said Anglo American was considering a rival bid for Australia’s Macarthur Coal, investors remain cautious as to the actual likelihood of a second bid. See...
Zimbabwe’s government has given foreign companies including miners and banks a 14-day ultimatum to submit plans on how they propose to transfer majority stakes to local owners or risk losing permits. A number of mining companies, including Rio Tinto and Impala...
If there were any lingering doubts that India’s Ministry of forests and environment (MoEF) succumbed to government pressure in permitting the potentially disastrous POSCO project, it has surely now been laid to rest. In this article, Times of India journalist...
London-based Churchill Mining plc has lost an attempt to overturn a court’s revocation of mining licences held by the company in East Kalimantan. The company plans to appeal further. See...
A curb on small-scale tin mining on Indonesia’s Bangka and Belitung islands, announced in early August, has been strongly criticised by the general secretary of the Indonesian Tin Industry Association, Johan Murod. Mr Murod claims that “[t]he government is...
There has been another shooting incident at the AngloGold Ashanti Obuasi Mine during which 23-year-old Kwame Eric of Binsere, near Obuasi, was shot by a detail of a private security organisation engaged by the Company. He was shot at the South Tailings Storage...
