London Calling turns an Eagle eye on Rio Tinto Is Rio Tinto breaking the law or not? Even if the company isn’t violating a Michigan state mining act and even if the current argument is over a relatively minor issue (the laying of a power line to serve its Eagle...
Mining giant Rio Tinto Plc tried to persuade an appeals court to dismiss a long running human rights lawsuit, one of a number of cases to test the reach of U.S. judges over corporations operating on foreign soil.The lawsuit, a proposed class action, involves Rio...
Rio Tinto is creeping its way towards control of Canada’s Ivanhoe Mines at a slow but relentless pace, drawing investors’ attentions away from a multi-billion dollar mining transaction that could be as significant for Rio as Canada’s PotashCorp looks to be for BHP...
A Native leader and fishing groups travelled to Washington to try to stop development of a huge copper and gold mine in southwest Alaska. The Pebble Mine is near some of the world’s most productive wild salmon streams and is being readied for permitting...
Rio Tinto Group, the world’s third- largest mining company, said its Bunder project in India is the world’s biggest diamond discovery in the past 10 years. “It’s in a pre-feasibility study right now so a major drilling program is under way to define the resource,”...
London-listed Eurasian Natural Resources Corporation Plc has been on a takeover spree over the past year, using its cash pile to buy assets mostly in Africa to build up a broad-based mining house focused on emerging markets. “ENRC’s objective… is to...
London-based Anglo American’s board is expected to approve the development of the Quellaveco copper project in southern Peru’s Moquegua region by year-end, according to Jose Fernandez-Baca, the company’s administration and finance manager in Peru....
Leftist guerrillas have sabotaged a number of mining vehicles at a mine owned by Anglo American, BHP Billiton and Xstrata in Colombia. The owners of the Cerrejon Norte mine said in a statement that armed insurgents from the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia,...
Jubilee Debt Campaign, which works for the cancellation of unpayable and unjust poor country debts, says it wants the Export Credits Guarantee Department (ECGD) reformed, not abolished. Responding to press reports that the ECGD is “under review” as part of the...
Chilean miner Antofagasta Minerals, a subsidiary of London-based Antofagasta plc, is continuing to develop its Antucoya copper project as planned. See http://www.bnamericas.com/news/mining/Antofagasta_Minerals_continues_Antucoya_development_as_planned/206585863.
Australian environment activists closed down operations at the world’s largest coal port on Sunday, after entering three terminals and attaching themselves to loaders, the terminal operator and the protesters said. Newcastle, just north of Sydney, is the...
Scotland should produce enough renewable electricity to meet all its power demand by 2025, First Minister Alex Salmond said Tuesday. “Scotland has unrivalled green energy resources and our new national target to generate 80 percent of electricity needs from...
