Sami reindeer herders to Beowulf Mining: why don’t you just give up and go?
Beowulf Mining held its 2021 Annual General Meeting on Friday, 18 June. Beowulf has been trying for years to take forward an iron ore mining project at Kallak, in indigenous Sami territory in the north of Sweden. For years, the Sami have been trying to stop them. We...
News from Cerrejón: Blockades and Lawsuits
Mineworkers and Wayuú communities paralyze the operations of the Cerrejón mine in Colombia, while Anglo American files a lawsuit against Colombia Cerrejón, the largest opencast coal mine in Latin America, has had to cease its operations in the north-east of Colombia...
Recording: London Mining Network Annual Gathering 2021
On 7 June we’ held our annual gathering, and we invited all of our friends and supporters to join us! Dear friends and supporters of LMN, Throughout 2020, our work to support communities harmed by London based mining companies continued despite the constraints...
Evasion and hypocrisy in London, repression and resistance elsewhere
26 May 2021 Dear friends, It has been AGM season over the past couple of months, and we have worked with communities affected by Rio Tinto, Anglo American and Antofagasta to raise issues at their online AGMs. Rio Tinto and Anglo American provided extensive responses...
Antofagasta Minerals must take responsibility for its impacts
Chilean Supreme Court rules in favour of the Caimanes Community by Javiera Martinez On 6 May 2020, for the first time, the Caimanes Community in Chile witnessed a toxic cloud over its territory (1). The toxic cloud comes from the “El Mauro” tailing dams, owned by...
It could be a blow to mining: Chile voted for the protection of territories, water and women
By Javiera Martinez Last weekend was a historic step forward in Chile. During Saturday and Sunday, the Chilean people voted in the elections to choose members of the body that will draft a new constitution (1). The 1980 constitution was imposed, through repression,...
We take a different view: contradiction and evasion at the tiny AGM of Antofagasta, massive mining company
Dust rising from the tailings storage facility behind the Mauro dam at Los Pelambres mine By Richard Solly, Co-ordinator, London Mining Network, with assistance from Javiera Martinez For background, see our 2017 report, In the Valley of the Shadow of Death. Other...
Resisting Mining Book Club: Unearthing Justice w/ Joan Kuyek
The second event in our Resisting Mining Book Club! Join us to discuss the effects of the mining industry on people and planet, and how communities are resisting across the globe. Register now About the Book Unearthing Justice: How to Protect Your Community from the...
“Next question, please!” Anglo American’s 2021 AGM, Wednesday 5 May
Report by Richard Solly, Co-ordinator, London Mining Network, with assistance from Aldo Orellana, Andrew Hickman, Diana Salazar, Fiona Watson, Gabriela Sarmet, Javiera Martinez, Paul Robson and Rodrigo Peret. The good news Because of continuing COVID-19 restrictions,...
Free the Bruno stream: the Wayuu people can live without coal, but not without water!
(En Español debajo) Take action: Call for the water of the Bruno Stream to be returned to its natural course! The Cerrejon Coal mine is the biggest opencast coal mine in Latin America and is owned by three huge multinational mining companies trading on the London...