Gunmen fired last Wednesday at vehicles operated by U.S. mining company Freeport in Indonesia’s impoverished Papua province, injuring two guards and a policeman in the latest attack on the world’s largest gold mine, police said. A few miles (kilometres)...
The “cat and mouse” game between Rio Tinto – global number two iron ore producer – and the Guinean regime continues, over control of what the UK company claims is the world’s biggest “undeveloped” iron ore deposit....
The world’s biggest mining company is selling a nickel refinery whose ore has come from an allegedly highly-polluting Indonesian mine. A Queensland University research study claims that the mine’s tailings are smothering one of the world’s most vital...
LONDON – Medical researchers have warned that the harmful and deadly effects that asbestos fibres cause may have been seriously underestimated. The caution comes at a time when thousands of people with asbestos-related illnesses are waiting to hear whether they...
On a bridge along Eastern Freeway, one of Melbourne’s important freeways, Australian and Filipino environmental activists dropped banners condemning open-cut mining saying ‘Open cut mining scars the Earth, No to Roxby Expansion’ and...
Impacts of mining became an important issue for Indonesians during the state’s recent presidential elections. Siti Mainmunah, of Indonesian mining advocacy group JATAM, has been driving home the message that mineral extraction provides no basis for sustainable...
There’s been heated debate in Argentina over whether its National Inter University Council (CIN) should accept funds from the country’s largest open-pit mine, Minera Alumbrera. The mine is operated by UK-Swiss Xstrata, co-owned by Goldcorp and Yamana Gold....
Tanzania’s young mining industry has grown at an astounding rate since liberal mining legislation was introduced in the late 1990s to attract investment. But against the background of tense relations between mining companies and locals, Tanzania’s...
Western mineral firms are fuelling violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo by failing to check where their raw materials come from, activists say. Global Witness says companies sourcing minerals used in electronic gadgets are buying them from traders who finance...
With the reporting season ahead, Anglo American’s embattled CEO will have her chance to report how her strategy to change the conservative mega-miner’s culture and performance is succeeding. See...
A new Draft Bill to go before Parliament could significantly enforce wide powers to investigate and prosecute British companies committing bribery overseas. CAFOD welcomes the publication of the Joint Parliamentary Committee report on the Draft Bribery Bill, but calls...
JAKARTA (Reuters) – About four Indonesian investors are interested in taking over a coal project owned by BHP Billiton Ltd (BHP.AX), a senior government mining official said. BHP Billiton said on June 9 month that it had decided not to go ahead with the Haju...
