“As long as we are alive, we will pursue Angloplat to get what is owed to us”. So declares Esther Moloto who, with fellow villagers, is waging war against the world’s biggest platinum mining company, a subsidiary of London-listed Anglo American. Her...
A senior traditional owner in Kakadu National Park is calling on the Australian government to reject plans to expand the Ranger uranium mine. Yvonne Margarula is alarmed at the likely poisoning of her peoples’ water by mine wastes. However, Rio Tinto –...
Ethical jewellery comes to Britain with Fairtrade gold launch Leading British jewellers launched certified “Fairtrade” gold last Wednesday, in a bid to boost livelihoods of artisanal miners working in perilous conditions and ensure ethical standards and...
The world’s leading deep-sea mining company last week announced it had “unveiled” (sic) another high grade copper deposit at the bottom of Papua New Guinea’s Bismarck Sea. Dubbing the deposit “Solwara 12”, Nautilus Minerals made the...
The Panguna mine in Bougainville was closed down as a result of armed opposition by Bougainvilleans. The mine is owned by Rio Tinto subsidiary Bougainville Copper Limited. For background, see https://londonminingnetwork.org/?s=Bougainville. THE Bougainville copper...
Rio Tinto, the world’s No 3 miner by market value, produced an astonishing USD 13.7bn in free cash flow for 2010, nearly USD 10bn more than the USD 3.8bn seen in 2009. Free cash flow (operating cash flow less capital expenditure) was assisted mainly by prices:...
Diversified miner Rio Tinto might have to be content with a smaller stake in the Simandou iron-ore project, as the Guinean government is reportedly looking to more than double its share in mining projects, an Australian media report stated. The Australian Financial...
Brazilian steelmaker CSN’s acquisition of additional stakes in Australian coal miner Riversdale Mining is an attempt to hinder the latter’s takeover by multinational resource group Rio Tinto, SLW brokerage analyst Pedro Galdi told BNamericas. See...
Civil society and trade unions have urged the European Commission to introduce new regulation requiring companies in both industrialized and developing countries to report on their environmental, social, human rights and governance impacts. The Global Reporting...
This is the story of the December 2009 attack by the police on the village of Cajas Canchaque, located in the North of Peru, where two farmers were shot dead. Police entered the village, a stronghold of anti mining sentiment against London-based Monterrico...
A surge in weather-related disasters in Australia could push global mining firms to overhaul supply contracts and rethink how bad weather will affect their operations and customers worldwide. Climate scientists say a warmer world will cause greater extremes of weather...
Tipping Point: The Age of the Oil Sands is a two-hour visual tour de force, taking viewers inside the David and Goliath struggle playing out within one of the most compelling environmental issues of our time. The age of innocence for the oil sands is over. See...
