The Indian Supreme Court has extended the interim stay on the Madras High Court order directing closure of Sterlite Industries’ copper smelting plant at Tuticorin in Tamil Nadu till August 25. Sterlite is a subsidiary of London-based Vedanta. See...
Canada’s HudBay Minerals is about to sell all its interests in Guatemala’s Fenix project. Almost certainly one of the prompts for its withdrawal is the murder of a man, and the alleged gang-rapes of eleven women at the project in 2007. However, according...
Sesa Goa, the iron ore mining arm of Vedanta Resources, has completed a transaction to acquire a controlling stake in Liberia’s Western Cluster Iron Ore project for $90 million. See...
Tanzania’s government is in talks with mining companies to raise royalty payments on gold exports as well as negotiating other possible tax hikes. African Barrick Gold has four gold mines in Tanzania while Australia’s third largest gold miner, Resolute...
Indigenous Papuans are waging a four-decade long nonviolent struggle for independence from Indonesia. At the heart of Papuan grievances lies Freeport, the world’s largest gold and copper mine, owned and operated by US based company Freeport McMoRan and their...
The leader of the Original Me’ekamui rebel group on Bougainville, Chris Uma says he wants to talk with the Australian government and with mining giant Rio Tinto, about the reopening Panguna copper mine. See...
Humankind has explored deeper into the depths of space than it has into the murky depths of the ocean. People actually have more knowledge of what lies at the end of the universe than at the bottom of the sea. Among the companies planning seabed mining are...
Statement by the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Navi Pillay, for 9 August, the International Day of the World’s Indigenous People … In India, social unrest and conflicts over land acquisition for development and mining projects have increased...
New information confirms that a little-publicised mining deal between Rio Tinto and Canada-based Ivanhoe Mines has, almost literally, sold the people of Burma down the river. See http://www.minesandcommunities.org/article.php?a=11098 Ivanhoe chief says Oyu Tolgoi...
Rio Tinto subsidiary Kennecott plays coy with the US Environmental Protection Agency, Utah’s Department of Air Quality and Salt Lake City officials as it lays a plan to mine the mineral-rich dustpiles of yesteryear. See...
RIO Tinto will launch a High Court action in a bid to overturn a ruling that opens the way for unions to get an increased foothold in Western Australia’s Pilbara. The union movement last night condemned the move, accused the company of “clinging to Work...
Although several, pay-related, gold mine strikes have just ended in South Africa, this doesn’t by any means mark an end to struggles for elementary economic justice on the part of large numbers of workers. In a statement of 28 July 2011, the National Union of...
