Controversial plans have been drawn up to dig opencast mines on the edge of Wearside in northern England. A major mining firm has identified two green-belt areas either side of Pittington, on the Sunderland-County Durham border, as “strategic coal sites” with some...
Mapungubwe, one of South Africa’s historic and environmental jewels, is in danger of losing its prestigious World Heritage Site status. Tensions and competing interests between the Department of Mineral Resources and the Department of Environmental Affairs hang...
India says willing to reconsider Vedanta refinery plan Environment minister Jairam Ramesh said that he was willing to revive Vedanta Resources’ plans to expand its alumina refinery in Orissa provided the firm met certain conditions. See...
Botswana’s government has green-lighted a massive $3bn mine in the Central Kalahari Game Reserve – in the middle of the Kalahari Bushmen’s appeal against the Botswana authorities’ refusal to allow them access to water there. London-listed Gem Diamonds announced that...
Coking (metallurgical) coal prices are on the rip, given further fillip by the devastating floods in eastern Australia, but what does the trend mean for investors? Most of the world’s exported coking coal is tied up in the mix of commodities produced by...
Proposed mining of the deep sea-bed is attracting growing opposition. Already, the Australian company Nautilus Minerals – in which London-listed Anglo American has a stake – has been granted permission to proceed with massive excavation offshore of Papua...
It’s not only in Australia that recent floods threaten to trigger the release of toxic heavy metals from flooded mines. Nor is Australia the only country where links have been drawn between the deluges and global greenhouse gas emissions. Rains, now striking...
The Mines and Communities website has for some time rehearsed the argument that the recent copper market boom is a dangerous illusion. Yet it’s triggering potential massive new investment in existing mining projects and, as a report from the Toronto Globe and...
Last August 7 in his inaugural speech as President of Colombia, Juan Manuel Santos said : “We are a nation with one of the largest biological diversities in the world, and with a great supply of water. Therefore we are called upon to care for them for our own benefit...
Greystar is a Canadian company with a listing on London’s Alternative Investment Market. For further information, see https://londonminingnetwork.org/?s=Greystar. This urgent action is being distributed by the Colombian Network Against Large-Scale Transnational...
Press release from Colombian National Coal Workers’ Union, SINTRACARBON Saturday 8 January 2011 was the eleventh day of alloted time to reach a direct settlement in the collective labour dispute between SINTRACARBON and the Cerrejon company, the property in...
On January 14th 2011 a group of protesters invaded the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills and demanded a meeting with Stephen Green, the new Minister for Trade. Calling themselves the “Big Society Trade Negotiators”, they were concerned that trade...
