Rio Tinto, a company that has made its name exploiting public and indigenous mineral wealth for decades, is set to make off with an astounding $140 billion in publicly-held mineral rights, in Arizona, USA, for what is expected to be North America’s largest copper...
There is no direct London connection to the cases considered below, although Copper Mesa Mining Corporation, formerly Ascendant Copper, did in the past have an agreement with Rio Tinto which may have seen the London major cash in on what Ascendant had found in...
Copper output is rising in Zambia again, but whether that will benefit the country or its people is a moot question. To quote the independent economic analyst in this article: “Agreements with the mines should quickly be renegotiated because the tax regime [is]...
Doctors at hospitals in Belarus and Ukraine are seeing highly unusual rates of cancers, mutations and blood diseases in their young patients. An assessment by the Russian academy of sciences says there have been 60,000 deaths so far in Russia and an estimated 140,000...
The world-wide renaissance of nuclear power that has so often been predicted will not take place in the next few decades. Nuclear energy will be on the decline till the year 2030, and will continue to decline in importance globally. This is the conclusion of the Swiss...
From Exploration to fuel production, this documentary relates the contamination, water consumption, waste generation, costs to the American taxpayer through government subsidies, health impacts,and the CO2 emissions that are caused by the front end of the nuclear fuel...
Most scientists in this field agree that there is danger even in small doses of radiation. See http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/jan/20/evidence-nuclear-risks-not-overrated.
Recently there’s been some speculation that BHP Billiton – the world’s biggest mining company – may be about to exit from nickel production. In 2008, it pulled out of the Gag Island project in West Papua. See:...
FARMERS trying to block BHP Billiton from exploring for coal in some of the most fertile land in New South Wales have lost the latest leg in their legal battle, but have promised to keep challenging. See...
Two women who say they suffered harassment and gender discrimination while training to work at the Ekati diamond mine in the Northwest Territories have launched a $10-million lawsuit against the mine owners and their trainers. Diane Taylor and Laura Lorenzen have...
The Independent Review of SRK’s Impact Assessment of Suriname’s Bakuis Bauxite Mine has four goals. First, to help people who may be impacted by the Bakhuis bauxite project to understand what the impacts may be, how to prevent or minimize these impacts,...
Diversified giant Rio Tinto’s iron-ore output surged by 49% in the fourth quarter of 2009, as a result of continued high demand from China, CE Tom Albanese reported. “In the Pilbara [region] we achieved record sales for both the quarter and the full year and both...
