African Minerals said a planned $1,5-billion investment in its flagship iron-ore project in Sierra Leone had suffered a further delay with China’s Shandong Iron & Steel needing extra time to complete due diligence. See...
LSE-listed African Barrick Gold sees west Africa, as well as in the Nubian Shield in the north-east, as particularly prospective regions, CEO Greg Hawkins said in Toronto on Friday. The company has said it is looking across Africa at opportunities. See...
Mining and metals companies’ exposure to fraud and corruption is now higher as a result of cost cutting and expansion into new territories, says a new Ernst & Young report. An Ernst & Young report made public Tuesday asserts, “The global financial crisis...
10th Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity, held in Nagoya, 18 – 29 October 2010 30 Oct: CBD/COP10 in Nagoya was gavelled to a close at 3:00am this morning. Its outputs, though better than expected, have limitations: they do not do...
London mining Network member group Down to Earth organised a ‘Deadly Coal’ tour in Europe for activists from JATAM, the Indonesian network against destructive mining. Siti Maemunah and Kahar visited Brussels, the Netherlands, London, Edinburgh and the...
It’s almost five years since civil society organisations, joined by local Indigenous and settler communities, tried to halt the opening of Bangladesh’s biggest-ever mine, the Phulbari coal project, managed by UK-listed GCM Resources. Last weekend the...
The world’s most profitable mining company, BHP Billiton, came in for varied criticisms at its London annual shareholder meeting last week. The “Big Australian”s failure to implement promises in Colombia; potential damage from a planned coal mine in...
A long-standing conflict, and labyrinthine legal process, over construction of a huge tailings dam in Northern Chile, has forced residents opposing the project to take direct action. London-listed mining company Antofagasta PLC owns the Los Pelambres, El Tesoro and...
The government of Saskatchewan is expected to announce it will not support BHP Billiton’s hostile takeover bid for Potash Corp. of Saskatchewan, due to fears of substantial revenue loss. See...
Within a fortnight of the dramatic rescue of 33 trapped Chilean miners, the reality behind this much-heralded event is being stripped from the official hyperbole. Last week, one Chilean politician claimed that the workers had been refused permission to quit their...
India’s Supreme Court has stayed hearing of the case, leveled by environmental groups in Tamil Nadu, against Vedanta-Sterlite’s allegedly highly polluting Tuticorin copper smelter. Although The Hindu newspaper reports this as a “relief” for...
In another setback to Vedanta Aluminium’s Orissa ambitions, the Environment Ministry has rejected its plan to expand its Lanjigarh refinery six-fold and directed the State government to take legal action against the company for illegally beginning the expansion...
