China’s security watchdog has accused mining giant Rio Tinto of spying on Chinese steel companies for six years, extorting $122 billion from them in the process. The report, by China’s National Administration for the Protection of State Secrets,...
Jacques Nasser, the former Ford supremo, who acquired the nickname for his controversial cost-cutting efforts at the carmaker, is going to chair BHP Billiton as it completes the merger of its Australian iron-ore business with Rio Tinto and continues with its price...
A government official has confirmed that BHP Billiton is planning to sell its interest in a big Borneo coal project. See http://www.mineweb.com/mineweb/view/mineweb/en/page38?oid=87264&sn=Detail.
It has always been a match made in peril: One of the biggest copper and gold mines in the world, 50% owned by Anglo American [and with a smaller involvement by Rio Tinto], perched in the watershed above Bristol Bay, Alaska — the last, best refuge for millions of...
In reporting a fall in underlying earnings per share of US 91 cents, Anglo American has beaten analysts’ forecasts as its cost cutting programme begins to have an impact and metal prices have recovered from their bottoms. See...
The Mines and Communities website (http://www.minesandcommunities.org) has published a collection of articles about lead and the dangers posed by its mining, processing, transportation and use. “As lead is all around us, it is in us, too” So remarked...
Mining industry organisation International Council on Mining and Metals (ICMM) has published “Human Rights in the Metals and Mining Industry: Overview, Management Approach and Issues”, the first in a line of publications which, it says, affirms the organisation’s...
URGENT ACTION! From the human rights team of the Process of Black Communities and other organisations: 6th August is the date fixed for the eviction of the black community in La Toma, in the Suárez municipality in north Cauca, Colombia. La Toma´s Afro-descendant...
Last month, Vedanta was indicted on several acts of pollution at its smelter in Orissa. See http://www.minesandcommunities.org/article.php?a=9388. It’s also being accused of illegal land acquisition for the same project. See...
Church of England to meet Vedanta management on Niyamgiri A persistent campaign by activists to stop Vedanta from mining in Orissa’s Niyamgiri mountains for bauxite has got a boost from the Church. The Church of England, that has invested in the company’s stocks, said...
In what seems to be a striking decision on behalf of community activists trying to resist damage and displacement, a magistrate in South Africa’s Limpopo Province has dismissed charges laid against three women brought before his court. They were accused of...
Nautilus Minerals, in which Anglo American holds an 11% stake, has contracted an exploration vessel to look for seafloor minerals in Solomon Islands and Papua New Guinea. See http://www.radioaustralianews.net.au/story.htm?id=20097.
