Mining giants Rio Tinto and BHP Billiton have struck a joint-venture deal over all of their Western Australian iron ore assets after the collapse of Rio’s proposed tie-up with Chinalco overnight. Under the preliminary agreement, Rio Tinto and BHP Billiton will...
In a case which may well have implications for all resource extraction companies, Royal Dutch Shell agreed to a $15.5 million settlement to end a lawsuit alleging that the oil giant was complicit in the executions of activist Ken Saro-Wiwa and other civilians by...
In late April 2009, London Mining Network member group Colombia Solidarity Campaign made a submission to the UK Parliament’s Joint Committee on Human Rights’ inquiry into business and human rights. The submission concerned the involvement of London-listed...
One of the presentations, made in the May 2009 UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues in New York, highlighted opposition by the San Carlos Apache of Arizona to the prospect of a major new copper mine, to be operated jointly by Rio Tinto and BHP Billiton. In 2005,...
Two months ago, at the end of March 2009, a judgment was delivered in Delhi’s High Court against some leading directors of UK-listed Vedanta Resources plc. The case received very little publicity even within India, let alone in Britain. But it cut to the heart...
Mongolia’s Democratic Party leader, Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj, won against the country’s ruling Peoples Revolutionary Party in May’s national elections. It was touch and go right up to the wire. What does this mean for the opening of Mongolia’s...
Jubilee South Africa National Office Press Statement 28 May 2009 RE-EXHUMED GRAVES REVEAL SOME FAMILY REMAINS WERE NOT REBURIED: Original Removal of Graves Took Place in 2008 to Make Way for a Tailings Dam at ANGLO PLATINUM’s PPL MINE SEKURUWE VILLAGE, NORTH OF...
Chief Sabino Romero is in two minds about Hugo Chávez’s socialist revolution. As the leader of a small native Indian community in the remote and lawless mountains on Venezuela’s northwestern border with Colombia, Mr Romero heartily approves of the...
In the world of seabed geology, if a sulphide deposit is massive, it is not necessarily big, but formless and rich in metals. As it happens, seafloor massive sulphides are also huge—at least they were until recently. The collapse in commodity prices last year has...
An excellent report on mining company strategy is now available at the Lake Superior Mining News. Teresa Bertossi’s very useful Mining for Public and State Approval: Corporate Strategies for Mining on Michigan’s Yellow Dog Plains is written very clearly...
