BHP Billiton chairman says it and Rio Tinto are on track for completion of a binding iron ore joint venture agreement “shortly” amid rumours Rio’s commitment to deal was weakening. See...
Workers at BHP Billiton’s Spence copper mine in northern Chile have signed labor contracts for a 41-month period after having reached a pay agreement that put an end to a 42-day strike, the union confirmed to BNamericas. See...
Almost no mining is possible without significant use of water. Chile’s copper industry – which involves BHP Billiton and Xstrata – swallows more water than most others, from one of the driest places on earth. This year, Chilean copper is estimated to...
Management at Xstrata’s (LSE: XTA) Altonorte copper smelter in northern Chile held the first face-to-face pay talks with union representatives on Wednesday (Nov 25), in which the company expressed a stance far from acceptable by the workers, union spokesperson...
Rio Tinto, the London-based mining company whose subsidiary Kennecott Eagle Minerals has sought to develop a nickel sulphide mine near Marquette, Michigan, USA, has withdrawn a request to prospect for minerals on public forest land in Michigan’s western Upper...
London-listed AngloGold Ashanti (based in South Africa) has a large number of mineral concessions and exploration projects in Colombia. Its operations in the Department (province) of Valle del Cauca, in the south west of the country, have faced very strong, organised...
The Canadian ambassador in Colombia, Geneviève des Rivières, and authorities from the Colombian mining, environment and energy ministries visited Vancouver-based Greystar Resources’ Angostura gold project to learn more about its progress. Greystar is listed on...
Canadian mining companies are facing allegations of abuse and assault on local citizens in dozens of developing nations…In Ottawa…a House of Commons committee…will continue debating a Liberal private member’s bill designed to put controls on mining companies...
By Naomi Klein – November 11th, 2009 One last chance to save the world—for months, that’s how the United Nations summit on climate change in Copenhagen, which starts in early December, was being hyped. Officials from 192 countries were finally going to...
‘Moves to stop global warming are devastating tribal people’, says new report Measures to stop global warming risk being as harmful to tribal peoples as climate change itself, according to a new report from Survival International. See...
Nuclear energy’s impact on emissions ‘too little, too late’ See http://www.greenbang.com/nuclear-energys-impact-on-emissions-too-little-too-late_12671.html. New UK nuclear stations unlikely to be on time A Newsnight investigation suggests that UK government plans to...
At a September seminar in London with investors in Vedanta, mining researcher Roger Moody of Nostromo Research gave the following paper on risks to banks from investments in the company. Roger has 26 years experience in studying the mining industry. Roger started by...
