Both articles analyse the relative strengths and weaknesses of companies across set time-frames. The first of them deals with how much companies have returned to investors over the last decade of the so-called ‘super-cycle’. Note BHP Billiton led by...
In the ten years since the mining industry has gone “responsible,” have things really improved for local communities–or has the industry’s PR just got better? (Mentions Vedanta, Monterrico Metals). See...
In this opinion piece the author asks whose interests drive the government and politicians in Tanzania and who is at the heart of policy development and formulation when mining corporations enjoy a better relationship with politicians than their electorates do? He...
GBI has formally announced that the Initiative’s core group of members will be joined by Colombian mining company Cerrejon Coal, a joint venture of London-listed Anglo American, BHP Billiton and Xstrata. GBI states that its aim is to advance human rights in...
Huascoaltinos claim over Pascua Lama deemed admissible by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) has acknowleged that the Chilean state may have committed violations of rights, enshrined in the American...
Tribe’s fight to save their Pandora British tabloid The Sun has joined those comparing the story of James Cameron’s film Avatar to that of the Dongria Kondh people resisting London-based Vedanta Resources in the Niyamgiri Hills in the Indian state of...
NB There is no connection between London Mining plc and London Mining Network! National Advocacy Coalition on the Extractives (NACE), Sierra Leone MEDIA RELEASE Freetown, 4 March 2010 Dangerous draft mining contract about to be enacted, NACE warns A mining agreement...
In 2009, the UK Parliamentary Joint Committee on Human Rights conducted an inquiry into UK business and human rights. It published its report in December. Among the submissions were some that were critical of GCM Resources over its Phulbari coal project in Bangladesh....
Last October, Wayuu Indigenous leader Karmen Ramirez Boscan was in London as a guest of London Mining Network member group Colombia Solidarity Campaign. She came to Britain for the AGM of mining multinational BHP Billiton, which is one of the three multinational...
An elementary school in the Philippines has burned down in mysterious circumstances, and people suspect it will be used to escalate militarisation as local indigenous communities are increasingly objecting to the company’s plans. The Tampakan mine is controlled...
It may have been announced as only a three-day strike at a relatively small colliery. However, discontent by Australian workers with UK-Swiss mining giant, Xstrata, has been boiling throughout the past year. Earlier this month, workers at the company’s Tahmoor...
The increasingly frustrated Indonesian Ministry of Forestry has issued a second warning to mining giant PT Freeport Indonesia for not obtaining a permit to mine in protected forest areas. London-listed Rio Tinto helped to finance expansion of Freeport’s massive...
