The Challenges of Chancleta, a Community with Its Own Identity
Chancleta is an Afro-descendant community in La Guajira, Colombia. Cerrejón forcibly resettled Chancleta, and its neighboring community, Patilla in 2013. Before the mine became an unwelcome neighbor, the communities enjoyed access to ample land for farming, raising...
BHP and its Antamina mine in Peru – Doubts from its online shareholder engagement session from 2020
LMN together with member groups TerraJusta and Global Justice Now have written to BHP with a critique of its replies to questions raised about its operations in Peru at its online shareholder engagement session last September. 4 February 2021 BHP is an...
Remembrance, resistance and legal proceedings
Dear friends, Monday 25 January was the second anniversary of the catastrophic tailings dam collapse at Vale’s iron ore mine at Brumadinho in Brazil. Vale is a Brazilian mining company with significant UK investment. We worked with our friends in Brazil to mark...
Second Anniversary of Brumadinho Dam Collapse
“They Profit, They Kill, They Flee” – Flávio Duarte. Commissioned by London Mining Network. 25 January 2021 marks the second anniversary of the collapse of the tailings dam at Vale’s Córrego do Feijão mine in Brumadinho, Brazil. In rememberace of the...
“Vale’s Crime in Brumadinho” – Solidarity & Remembrance, Two Years On
Gabriela Sarmet & Saul Jones “May Brumadinho be treated not only as a local case, but as a global testimony, so that no one, anywhere in the world, may experience the terror that we are experiencing after the tragedy of the crime committed by Vale.” RENSER,...
“Simply walk away”: To Rio Tinto, regarding Oak Flat
Today, London Mining Network along with seven other environmental and Human Rights organisations wrote to Jakob Stausholm, CEO of Rio Tinto PLC on the issues of the company’s controversial plans for Oak Flat, Arizona. The US Forest Service is currently under...
London Mining Network Statement on Just Transition and Transition Minerals
The following statement was drafted in solidarity with mining-affected communities by the Just Transition LMN Working Group, and approved by all LMN members (on 7 December 2020). LMN, and its members, affirm that a rapid move away from a reliance on fossil fuels for...
Money for nothing (or net zero)
Time for mining and other companies to recognise the cost of their climate obligations By Terry Blackman, London Mining Network Treasurer The accounting world was recently taken by a minor storm when the International Financial Reporting Standards Foundation launched...BHP Timeline
Deadly dams, and victory over Dewley Hill mine
Dear friends, We at London Mining Network send you good wishes for Christmas and the New Year. May 2021 be considerably better than 2020! The UN Environment Programme (UNEP) and the Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI), Co-Convenors of the Global Tailings...