Mines and Communities launches a global Special Report Is our planet going up in smoke? NEWS RELEASE From: Mines and Communities, London 1 September 2010 Prospects are now dwindling that a binding Climate Change treaty will be agreed in Mexico later this year. But the...
Jubilee South Africa Press Statement 30 August 2010 Sekiming activsts who stood up to Anglo Platinum and its Section 21 company will be sentenced on 1 September 2010. Sixteen community members in Sekiming have been convicted of “public violence”...
India’s environment ministry damns Vedanta’s Nyamgiri mine It wasn’t a foregone conclusion. However, following the unequivocal high-level condemnation of Vedanta’s proposed bauxite mining of the Nyamgiri hills in Orissa, a fortnight back, it...
Tribals fight for their rights Indian television documentary about the struggle against Vedanta and other mining companies in Orissa http://ibnlive.in.com/videos/129855/30-minutes-tribals-fight-for-their-rights.html (Note: one lakh = one hundred thousand; one crore =...
Vedanta’s aggressions against Dongaria Kondh, Dalit and other communities in Orissa, aren’t the only examples of the UK company’s unlawful behaviour, now confirmed by India’s Ministry of Environment and Forests. Manifold indictments of the...
There is fresh trouble for Vedanta Resources. The environment ministry has ordered a probe into allegations of encroachment of forest land by its Balco plant in Chhattisgarh. Vedanta has 51% stake in the plant, through its subsidiary Sterlite Industries. The probe was...
The latest numbers show BHP Billiton is continuing to widen its hefty lead on its global diversified mining peers. BHP Billiton’s results for its fiscal year to 30 June 2010 unravel much about why the group recently launched a USD 40bn hostile bid for...
Rio Tinto on Monday signalled it was pushing ahead with its expansion plans in iron ore while it awaits competition authority clearance to form a partnership with rival BHP Billiton in Australia. The world no. 2 producer of the steel making raw material said it had...
A major dispute is underway between mineworkers in Poltava in West Ukraine and London-listed Ferrexpo Plc (http://www.ferrexpo.com/), a major player on the global market mainly engaged in mining of iron ore. All three shifts in the open cast in the town of Komsomolsk,...
As Tata finally reneges on its earlier undertaking to guarantee jobs for workers at the Corus steel plant in the northern UK, a Thai company steps in to bale the operations out. See...
South Africa’s handling of two disputed mine right awards has damaged the resource-rich country’s reputation and raised investor concerns over transparency and governance. Kumba Iron Ore, a unit of Anglo American, and Lonmin have said the government...
Anglo-Swiss mining group Xstrata sees few problems related to water in the development of its Las Bambas copper project in southern Peru’s Apurimac region, according to the project’s general manager, Valentin Choquenaira. “We have an advantage when...
