Dear friends, The mining industry is associated with a great deal of violence around the world. This month sees the sixth anniversary of the massacre of striking mine workers at London-listed Lonmin’s platinum mine at Marikana in South Africa. There will be a...
London Mining Network’s friends in Malagasy rights organisation TANY have published a statement deploring the judicial harassment of people protesting against the impacts of Rio Tinto subsidiary QMM’s operations near Fort Dauphin, Madagascar. See The...
On 24 July, an open letter was sent by email to Lina Echeverri of Carbones del Cerrejon (Cerrejon Coal), the mining company operating the vast Cerrejon opencast coal mine in La Guajira, Colombia. It is owned by London-listed multinationals Anglo American, BHP and...
In response to a serious contamination incident at Minera Los Pelambres (Antofagasta) on July 16th, over 100 inhabitants of Cuncumén, a small community in the municipality of Salamanca in North-Central Chile, protested by blocking the entrance to the mining operation....
This August will be the sixth anniversary of South Africa’s Marikana massacre. On 16th August 2012, 34 striking miners were killed by South African police at London-listed mining company Lonmin’s platinum mine. To show solidarity and to mark the day,...
Dear friends, Last month we helped colleagues from Spain make their presence felt at the AGM of Atalaya Mining, a company trading on London’s ill-regulated Alternative Investment Market (AIM) and the target of massive opposition in communities affected by its...
On Wednesday 27th June, Spanish campaigners attended the AGM of London-listed mining company Atalaya Mining to raise concerns about the company’s operations across Spain. Atalaya, which is listed on London’s Alternative Investment Market (AIM), is the owner of the...
“Our opposition to the Touro Mine is about defending a way of life, defending long-term a different kind of industry for the region”, says Luis Gallardo. Luis is from Galicia, an autonomous province in the northwest of Spain. He travelled to London to attend Atalaya...
Dear friends, Just after we sent out the last newsletter, a terrible massacre occurred at Thoothukudi (Tuticorin) in India. Police shot down unarmed protesters against a copper smelter owned by Sterlite, a subsidiary of notorious London-listed company Vedanta. There...
London Mining Network member group Eritrea Focus has just published a report, Mining and Repression in Eritrea: corporate complicity in human rights abuses. The document, which is the first of its kind, pulls together information in the public domain to highlight the...
