On Wednesday 1 December, in London, awards will be presented to those in the mining industry who have most impressed the world’s mining financiers. The Outstanding Achievement Awards are sponsored by industry publication the Mining Journal. Critics of the mining...
On 26 November 2010 the North Gauteng High Court in South Africa was due to hear an urgent application by members of the Sekuruwe Community for an interdict to stop Anglo American subsidiary Anglo Platinum’s PPL Mine near Mokopane in the Limpopo Province from dumping...
On Tuesday, November 23, Indigenous Peoples from across Latin America released The Lima Declaration, a unified position calling for an end to large-scale surface mining by transnational companies on Indigenous Peoples’ lands. Indigenous representatives from the...
On November 12 2010, the Indian newspaper Orissa Diary published a report claiming that eight tribal and other NGOs had submitted a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) petition to the state’s High Court on behalf of Vedanta Resources plc. According to the report,...
Vedanta’s profits for the first half of its current financial year have disappointed the London-listed, Indian uber-miner. In fact, since January 2010, the company has “under-performed” the British mining index by 25%. Just three years ago it was...
Vedanta Resources Plc said it has entered into financing agreements with a consortium of banks for $ 6 billion to fund its proposed buyout of up to 60 per cent stake in Cairn India. London-listed Vedanta Resources planned stake acquisition in Cairn India, which was...
The proposed Vedanta University, India’s answer to Stanford and Harvard, suffered a blow after Orissa High Court ruled the land acquisition for the project in Orissa’s Puri town as illegal and void. See http://www.minesandcommunities.org/article.php?a=10536.
Vedanta Resources does not seem interested in setting up an alumina refinery and an aluminium smelter in Gujarat. It has decided against an expression of interest (EoI) as invited by the state-owned Gujarat Mineral Development Corporation. See...
“Something is sickening the people of Tiara and their crops”. That’s what the Mines and Communities website reported more than five years ago. In 2008, a study showed that Anglo American’s Lomas de Nickel mine in Venezuela was responsible. But...
Union leaders at the world’s No. 3 copper mine dug in their heels on Thursday, saying workers would reject management’s latest offer to end a 14-day-old strike at the sprawling Collahuasi copper pit. The union vowed to stay on the picket line until...
Eight men and three women have been on a hunger strike for the last 53 days, since Sept. 28, to protest at the dangerous tailings dam situation affecting their community of Caimanes, located in the Coquimbo Region north of Santiago. Organizers explained that the...
Rio Tinto, through its subsidiary Kennecott Minerals, continues to dodge requirements of Michigan’s Part 632 Mining Law, with the help of the Marquette County Road Commission (MCRC), the Marquette County and City Commissions, and local township boards. See...
