Rio Tinto worried Australian tax may give other countries ideas Prime Minister Kevin Rudd’s proposed ‘super tax’ on miners is still causing the industry to vent its collective spleen in anger. Xstrata have added to the list of companies promising to...
A study on how mining has contributed significantly to tuberculosis makes an interesting counter-point to the boasting of company health initiatives. Funding TB eradication is often part of Corporate Social Responsibility propaganda, and as such presented as...
Shares of Greystar Resources jumped 45 percent after the company said it won’t have to redesign its Angostura gold project in Colombia to conform to new mining regulations in the country. In a statement, Greystar said Colombia had accepted its appeal against a...
South African power utility Eskom said it had signed an amended tariff deal with BHP Billiton for its Mozambican aluminium smelter to remove a link to commodity pricing that hit Eskom’s balance sheet last year. See...
The UK mining index includes four of the world’s top five diversified miners but, analysts are undecided as to whether the sector is over or undervalued. This article contains no consideration of human rights abuses or environmental destruction. See...
The London-based Responsible Jewellery Council (RJC), a not-for-profit organization that certifies businesses within the diamond and gold jewelry supply chains, has expanded the scope of its certification system to include the platinum group metals. RJC, which...
The Co-operative Bank turned down almost £100m of business last year for ethical and environmental reasons. Business totaling £97.3m was rejected, including applications for finance for missile equipment to go to oppressive regimes, banking services for a cleaning...
The isolation period for waste from new generation reactors will increase to 2.3 million years from one million years before radioactivity approaches that of natural uranium. See...
Energy secretary blames predecessors for avoiding tough decisions in ‘classic example of short-termism’. Britain is facing a £4bn black hole in unavoidable nuclear decommissioning and waste costs. The revelation will also hand further ammunition to those...
The global miner said its operations at the copper mine in northern Chile were not affected by the protests of temporary workers, only days after staff workers signed a collective agreement. See...
Dr Shula Marks, Emeritus Professor of History at London University’s School of Oriental and African Studies, spoke at a public meeting organised by London Mining Network and War on Want on 22 April 2010. Her talk dealt with the toll taken on South African miners...
For a month, a small group of American Indians and environmental activists occupied an isolated patch of woods in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula where the world’s third-largest mining company, Rio Tinto, is preparing to drill for nickel and copper. The...
