“We, members of Civil Society, having gathered at the alternative Mining Indaba, in Cape Town on 7th -9th February 2011, comprising faith based organisations, NGOs and community based organisations from Zimbabwe, South Africa, Mozambique, Malawi, Guatemala,...
Settlement with workers at Cerrejon On 8 February, the SINTRACARBON coal workers’ union in Colombia signed a new contract with the Cerrejon Coal Company, owned in equal parts by London-listed Anglo American, BHP Billiton and Xstrata. The agreement came after an...
BHP predicts strong iron ore prices for 2 years; CEO denies anti-China spying reports BHP CEO sees high iron ore price for up to 2 years, with optimistim on short term outlook. Kloppers dismisses WikiLeaks reports that BHP traded intelligence on China with USA. See...
With cash flows rebounding in 2010, the latest set of results give a view of Cynthia Carroll’s Anglo American, after four years in the CEO’s seat. See http://www.mineweb.com/mineweb/view/mineweb/en/page67?oid=120996&sn=Detail&pid=92730.
You might not have noticed it, but between 60,000 and 100,000 delegates attended the World Social Forum (WSF) in Dakar, capital of Senegal, earlier this month. At the same time, of course, many thousands of people were demonstrating in Tahrir Square and elsewhere in...
Egypt’s major miner, London-listed Centamin, not long ago started exploiting gold deposits near the Red Sea. The company claims to have escaped damage during the recent upheavals, and its operations don’t appear yet to be a focus of major criticism by...
Rio Tinto continues to come under fire for its Kennecott subsidiary’s Eagle Mine operations in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. Some local coverage on Rio Tinto’s not-so-surprising decision to continue pursuing its wilderness 595/Woodland road to haul ore from...
Nijmegen, February 15, 2011: BankTrack today launches the Dodgy Deal map, a new tool to present the involvement of private sector banks in the worldwide financing of controversial deals and companies. The world map allows visitors to select a specific bank and/or a...
Ottawa will decide within days whether to formally weigh the benefits of merging Canada’s key stock exchange with the London Stock Exchange, Industry Minister Tony Clement says. The big banks that dominate Bay Street have been cautious in their comments on the deal....
Last year, the Obama administration permanently banned oil drilling in Alaska’s Bristol Bay, America’s richest salmon fishery and the heart of a $2.2 billion regional fishing industry. One huge threat to this extraordinary ecosystem remains: a proposed gold and copper...
On March 4 AIM-listed Greystar will have a second public hearing after which the environment ministry will decide on the license for Greystar’s Angostura project. This second public hearing was ordered after citizens of the city of Bucaramanga complained they...
Recent figures show the mining industry in the Philippines is failing to match its revenue targets. The reasons for this include the fact that an increasing number of local government units are looking to ban mining or impose a moratorium on it. Zamboanga del Norte...
