Papua New Guinea’s Morobe Joint Venture mine is owned by Harmony and Newcrest. It has a chequered history, having been explored, tested and controlled by Rio Tinto-CRA until 1998. Villagers near the mine report that all fish have disappeared from their rivers,...
Mining giant Anglo American has more than halved the number of fatalities at its operations in three years, chief executive Cynthia Carroll said. She said that when she took over the post, Anglo’s safety record was “simply unacceptable”. Following a...
Updated Mineral Resource Estimate Confirms the Pebble Project as North America’s Most Important New Copper-Gold-Molybdenum Development Opportunity Northern Dynasty Minerals Ltd announces that the Pebble Limited Partnership (“PLP” or the “Pebble...
Nineteen mining companies, one of them China-linked, have agreed to use their combined influence to reduce poverty and foster development. All members of the London-based International Council on Mining and Metals (ICMM), the 19 said at the Mining Indaba that they had...
The British government will not use taxpayers’ money to subsidize the construction of new nuclear power plants, Philip Hunt, minister of state at the Department of Energy and Climate Change said January 21. See...
AngloGold Ashanti’s proposed gold mine in the Democratic Republic of Congo New report from CAFOD and South Africa’s Benchmarks Foundation AngloGold Ashanti is a South African company with a secondary listing on the London Stock Exchange. See...
The South African Benchmarks Foundation has produced a report on the activities of De Beers in Botswana and on South Africa’s west coast. London-based Anglo American plc owns 45% of De Beers. See http://www.bench-marks.org.za/ and click on the repots listed on...
If there were ever a place that came close to the magical world of Pandora in James Cameron’s new film Avatar, it would probably be the Amazon. There may not be butterflies that look like flying squid, but in the Amazon can you eat giant worms and lemon flavored ants...
“… after six months of engagement, we are not satisfied that Vedanta has shown, or is likely in future to show, the level of respect for human rights and local communities that we expect of companies in whom the Church investing bodies hold shares.” NEWS from...
Six people were wounded Sunday in a shooting ambush near US company Freeport McMoRan’s massive gold and copper mine in Indonesia’s eastern Papua region, police said. Three policemen and three mine workers were hurt in the ambush on a convoy of buses and...
Their 7-point demands include passing a bill in the Bangladesh Parliament barring export of natural resources, cancelling the proposed model production-sharing contract (PSC) with foreign oil companies, ditching open-pit coal mining and expelling Asia Energy. Asia...
Despite the relative poverty of the Pakistani province of Balochistan, the local authorities have decided that the proposed Reko Diq mine will not make things better. The company involved, Antofagasta plc, while controlled by Chilean capital, is listed in London and...
