World Gobbling Up Greenhouse Gas Budget: WWF Greenhouse gas emissions worldwide risk overshooting by a third the threshold beyond which dangerous global warming looms, the environment group WWF said on Wednesday, urging climate talks in China to tackle the gap....
Broken promises mark foreign mining deals in Canada Rio Tinto, Xstrata and BHP Billiton have all reneged on undertakings given prior to a Canadian takeover (in Rio Tinto’s case with regard to Alcan and in BHP Billiton’s with regard to Rio’s Canadian uranium and copper...
BHP Billiton plans to support the regulatory process of its iron ore JV with Rio Tinto, despite talk Rio plans to terminate the deal. Rio was forced to deny media speculation that its board had decided at a meeting on Monday to terminate the $US116 billion agreement...
BHP Billiton has been accused of double standards by complicating public access to documents about a planned filter shutdown at its Mozambican aluminium smelter. “I don’t understand how a corporate like BHP can do one thing in South Africa and across the border...
Global uranium supply is expected to increase in the second half of 2010, supported by strong production coming from Kazakhstan and the Ranger and Olympic Dam mines, in Australia. The continued ramp-up of Paladin Energy’s Kayelekera project, in Malawi, would also...
In a widely-applauded move, Argentina’s senate has passed an Act to protect the country’s glaciers, which should curb Barrick’s plan to mine the massive Pascua Lama gold deposit. See http://www.minesandcommunities.org/article.php?a=10413. Barrick is...
The Guinea government appears to be playing hardball with Rio Tinto over what the latter claims is the world’s largest undeveloped iron ore deposit. See http://www.mineweb.com/mineweb/view/mineweb/en/page39?oid=112263&sn=Detail&pid=92730.
The Paraguayan government and aluminium company Rio Tinto Alcan will resume meetings in the next few days to discuss the installation of a US$2.5bn aluminum smelter, a press official from the country’s industry and trade ministry (MIC) told BNamericas....
Anglo American Chile has presented an EIA to local environmental regulator Conama for a US$68mn project to process low grade copper waste material currently stockpiled at the Mercedes dump at the Mantos Blancos copper operation in northern region II. See...
Thousands of workers at South Africa’s Kumba Iron Ore mine on Monday embarked on a strike for better wages after pay rise talks collapsed, a National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) official said. Kumba, a unit of global miner Anglo American, said last week the...
Royal Bafokeng’s Rasimone mine, mentioned in the article below, is 33% owned by Anglo Platinum, itself controlled by London-listed Anglo American. Royal Bafokeng is the largest “black empowered” mining company in South Africa – the Royal Bafokeng Nation itself...
The Madras High Court on Tuesday ordered the immediate closure of Sterlite Industries’ copper smelting plant in Tuticorin, dealing yet another blow to the Vedanta Group’s operations in the country. Justice Elipe Dharmarao and Justice N Paul Vasanthakumar said that the...
