London-based Vedanta Resources, through its subsidiary companies, plans to mine for bauxite in the Niyamgiri Hills, considered sacred by the Indigenous Dongria Kondh community. The proposed mine will threaten the community’s rights to water, food, health and work....
The San Marcos highlands like the rest of the country of Guatemala are almost entirely covered by mineral claims and concessions. According to the Commission for Peace and Ecology (COPAE) of the Diocese of San Marcos, the Marlin mine, which opened in 2005, uses...
One of the themes of the May 2010 UN Commission on Sustainable Development meeting was mining, and its contribution to so-called sustainable development. There were a number of presentations from multiple stakeholder groups, and two of them (one presented on behalf of...
Four members of the Ipili tribe of Porgera in Papua New Guinea (PNG) travelled to Canada to demand that Barrick Gold address serious human rights abuses and environmental destruction related to Barrick’s Porgera Joint Venture gold mine. Two of the Ipili are...
Assessing a new era for the global mining sector, where even the Western World’s biggest miners need Chinese capital: analysis by Barry Sergeant of Mineweb. See http://www.mineweb.com/mineweb/view/mineweb/en/page67?oid=105361&sn=Detail&pid=92730.
Press Release from the Bench Marks Foundation, http://www.bench-marks.org.za/ Anglo Platinum employee accused of disrupting community meeting The Bench Marks Foundation has expressed its concern suggesting that an employee of Anglo Platinum was instrumental in...
BankTrack, in cooperation with a number of working partners, today (26 May 2010) launches http://www.nuclearbanks.org, a new website mapping the involvement of 45 leading commercial banks in funding nuclear power projects and companies active in the nuclear sector....
Goldcorp is a Canadian company but among its major investors are British-based AXA Investment Managers UK Ltd (US$4.3 million), Blackrock Commodities Income Trust plc, and City Natural Resources High Yield Trust PLC, according to the document From Money to Metals (...
Millions of litres of radioactive water from the Ranger uranium mine have flowed into world heritage-listed wetlands in Kakadu National Park. Aboriginal traditional owners say they will oppose plans for a huge expansion of the 30-year-old mine by Energy Resources of...
Billions of dollars between friends The Oyu Tolgoi project in Mongolia has a total phase one capital cost of 4.6 billion US dollars and proponent Ivanhoe Mines has only been able to pursue it because of massive support from Rio Tinto. Rio Tinto’s association...
RIO Tinto is cutting back on promised superannuation benefits to hundreds of current and former staff as it recasts its business plans in Australia, according to a former manager and 25-year veteran of the company. See...
Once more the issue arises of the health impacts from coal mining on local communities. In this case it is the coal mines of Australia’s Hunter Valley (where around 70% of the capacity is mined by subsidiaries of Anglo American, BHP Billiton, Rio Tinto and...
