Barely three weeks following the assassination of the son of a well-known anti-mining activist, two Indigenous leaders were also murdered, and more than a dozen wounded, as they sought to defend their land in Guatemala. Nineteen-year old Walter Mendez Valazquez was...
Despite rain more than 3,000 tribals took part in a rally at Muniguda in Rayagada district to protest against the mining project of Vedanta Alumina Limited (VAL) in Niyamgiri hills of south Orissa. See http://www.hindu.com/2009/10/06/stories/2009100653710300.htm.
Chhattisgarh police have interrogated several Chinese engineers employed by Shandong Electric Power Construction Corporation (SEPCO) at Korba town to probe the Sep 23 collapse of an under-construction power plant chimney that killed 45 workers. See...
The UK’s takeover panel said that resource group Xstrata (LSE: XTA) must make an official offer by October 20 to take over competitor Anglo American (LSE: AAL) or issue a statement specifying it is not going to make an offer, Anglo American said in a release...
The growing list of jewelers vowing to boycott gold from a proposed Alaska mine now includes major manufacturers of class rings. Herff Jones and Commemorative Brands Inc., both of which make class rings, have joined the list of jewelers opposed to the proposed Pebble...
Mongolia finally wrapped up a deal on Tuesday to develop one of the world’s biggest untapped copper and gold deposits, signing off on Rio Tinto (RTP-N174.02—-%) and Ivanhoe Mines’ (IVN-T13.51—-%) Oyu Tolgoi mine. The deal, made possible after...
Anglo American PLC Group, the world’s fourth-largest diversified mining group, is exploring copper and gold deposits in several areas of Cordillera region, a ranking official of the company said today. In an interview with reporters during a mining conference...
Indonesia’s North Sulawesi province has approved an environmental study for a gold project involving U.K.-based miner Archipelago Resources, the province’s governor said. Archipelago Resources, which owns 85 percent of the Indonesian unit, PT Meares...
Nuclear power is increasingly proposed as a climate-friendly alternative to fossil fuel use in electricity generation. A study by doctors in Ontario, Canada, on the health impacts of uranium mining and use, published in May this year, should give us cause for concern....
Just a month before a massive chimney collapse killed at least 45 workers at Vedanta’s Korba power plant in Chhattisgarh, another “mishap” struck the company’s Mt Lyell copper mine in Tasmania, Australia. Many tonnes of mud swept into the...
Not to be out-manoeuvred by adverse publicity attaching to its abject failure to protect workers in Chhattisgarh, UK-listed Vedanta has announced a massive expansion of its parlous iron ore mining in Goa and elsewhere in India. See...
There seem to be few new tactics that may be adopted in the seemingly interminable battle to force mining companies into being both honest and just. However, on September 22nd, what some have described as a “unique event” took place in one of the global...
