Rio Tinto AGM 14 April 2011

Apr 15, 2011 | News

Rio Tinto’s AGM took place in London at 11am on Thursday 14 April. Protests outside were led by Utah Moms for Clean Air and supported by London Mining Network. For more information, click on headline.

Activists from around the world attack British mining giant

Apr 15, 2011 | News

On 14 April 2011, London-based Rio Tinto plc held its AGM (annual shareholders’ meeting) in London. 14 April also marked the thirtieth anniversary of the first concerted intervention by “dissident shareholders” in what is now the world’s third most powerful mining...

London Olympic Medal Provider slammed for abuses

Apr 13, 2011 | News

NEWS PEG: Thursday, 14 April 2011 Rio Tinto annual meeting Wednesday, 13 April 2011 London Olympic Medal Provider slammed for abuses Gold, silver and bronze medals for the London 2012 Games will be sourced from Rio Tinto mines including the Kennecott Utah Copper mine...

Rio Tinto to provide metal for London 2012 Olympic medals

Apr 13, 2011 | News

Rio Tinto will provide the metal for medals awarded at the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games, the committee organising the event said on Wednesday. “Rio Tinto will provide all the gold, silver and copper to produce the 4,700 medals for the London 2012...

Rio Tinto: are they telling us the whole truth?

Apr 13, 2011 | News

People from communities directly affected by Rio Tinto’s activities around the world, people who work with those communities, and experts on the operations of the company, have contributed to a background report  which London Mining Network has produced ready...

Protests against GCM Resources continue in Bangladesh

Apr 9, 2011 | News

As the sun rose on March 28, 2011, roughly 2,000 people gathered to demonstrate against a mining project that would displace tens of thousands of people in northwest Bangladesh and establish one of the largest open pit coal mines in the world. Located in an...

Vedanta's children are literally getting "peanuts"

Apr 6, 2011 | News

It was once dubbed “Food for Work” by the Indian government. Since 2005, its more sophisticated version – the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) – supposedly guarantees 100 days of manual employment for every poor household in the...

Who wants Rio Tinto subsidiary's Panguna mine re-opened?

Apr 4, 2011 | News

In the media there is a lot of talk about re-opening the Panguna mine but it is a different story when you are on the ground. Outsiders think that it is very simple and easy to re-open the mine after 20 thousand Mekamuians/Bougainvilleans were killed, wounded and died...

Four Vedanta unit miners die in Zambia accident

Apr 4, 2011 | News

Four miners have died following an accident at Zambia’s Nchanga open pit mine, owned by London-listed Vedanta Resources, police said. Copperbelt police commanding officer Martin Malama said in an interview that police had retrieved three bodies and were still...

Glimmer of justice for sick gold miners

Apr 4, 2011 | News

A South African court judgment could enable hundreds of thousands of workers, and their families, to gain compensation for deadly silicosis contracted in the country’s gold mines. Alas, the verdict arrives too late for Thembekile Mankayi, the worker who...