Workers and management agreed on Monday to end the 32-day long strike, the longest-ever at a major private mine in Chile. Miners will return to work during Tuesday’s first shift. Collahuasi, owned by Xstrata and Anglo American, extracts about 3.3 percent of...
Mining Initial Public Offerings (IPOs) in London A Glencore London float could value group at £30 billion plus In what U.K. newspapers say could be the largest stock market IPO of the year, weekend reports say that the big Swiss-headquartered metals mining and trading...
Some of the landowners affected by Rio Tinto subsidiary BCL’s Panguna project have decided that they would like the mine reopened, but on their terms. About 100 representatives from the six Panguna mine lease affected areas met in Buka for two days at the Kuri...
Diversified miner Sherritt International Corp said it would take a majority stake in the Sulawesi nickel project in Indonesia. The Toronto-based company said it would acquire a 57.5 percent equity stake in the holding company that owns the Sulawesi Project, while...
Last month’s Forum on Mining, Climate Change and Well-being, held in the Peruvian capital, Lima, was attended by 376 Indigenous persons and partners from seventeen countries. The participants issued a ringing Declaration, stating their intention to...
More than 40% of the paramo in the northwesterly department of Piura, Peru is under mining concessions. These high altitude wetlands are vital sources of water for the arid lowlands where important export agriculture operations are situated. According to this article,...
But the public isn’t allowed to participate properly Vancouver-based Greystar reports that a public hearing took place to consider the Environmental Impact Study for its controversial Angostura project. However, Colombian deputy, Roberto Schmalbach, reports that...
A recently announced lawsuit against HudBay Minerals Inc points to the industry’s failure to take responsibility for corporate abuses beyond Canadian borders. Paradoxically, the company recently won an award for Corporate Social Responsibility from the Mining...
Global warming, mining, new “Cold War” go hand in hand The USA and Canada have markedly increased joint efforts to assert sovereignty over the Arctic sea-bed and the vast natural resources lying there. If exploited, these could prove to be the most...
Over 100 demonstrators gathered outside of the La Moneda presidential palace in Chile to call attention to a hunger strike against London-listed mining company Antofagasta that had lasted nearly two months with minimal, if any, media coverage. See...
International media exposure acts like oxygen and helps to optimise the effect of people’s agitations against rampaging multinational corporations, according to a leading Indian documentary filmmaker. This helped defeat Vedanta in the Niyamgiri Hills. See...
How the London Metal Exchange, which can be traced back to the reign of Elizabeth I, became the global centre of metals trading. See http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/industry/mining/8179224/London-Metal-Exchange-a-history.html.
