Slow Death in Siberia
Russia is the third biggest exporter of coal. It has vast reserves in the Kuzbass in southern Siberia which nestles roughly north of Mongolia and Kazakhstan. 76 per cent of Russia’s coal exports come from this region, tying people from across the world to this remote,...Coal miners in South Africa next in line for compensation claims
COAL MINERS ARE NEXT ON THE LINE FOR COMPENSATION CLAIMS. CATHOLIC BISHOPS WILL FIGHT FOR THE COAL MINERS. Press release from South African Catholic Bishops Conference, 4 May 2018 As the sick miners won a settlement against gold mining companies yesterday, SACBC...
Leave the gold in the hills
Photo: The UlsterHerald Gold in the hills: international solidarity flows to community resisting mining in Northern Ireland by Hal Rhoades, Gaia Foundation “A mask of gold hides all deformities”- Thomas Dekker Wind whips across high hills of moor heather and spring...
Glencore, below the surface
Global union IndustriALL has published a briefing on Glencore to coincide with the company’s AGM in Switzerland today, 2 May 2018. The briefing details Glencore’s environmental, social and governance (ESG)-related risks – with a focus on labour-related risks –...
Celebrations with Warning Signs on the First Anniversary of the Metallic Mining Ban in El Salvador
March to the Salvadoran Legislative Assembly to demand prohibition of metallic mining (March 9, 2017). By Andrés McKinley On March 29th, 2017, the small country of El Salvador became the first nation in the world to exercise its sovereign right to say “no” to metallic...
Coal mining is not a 'governmental need', rules Russian court
Activists have for the first time in Russian history succeeded in cancelling permission for new coal mining in a Russian court. London Mining Network has just received the press release below (translated from Russian) from our friends at Ecodefense. For background...
Mimika's Coastal Dystopia – report
Indonesian organisation AEER, coordinated by LMN partner Pius Ginting, has just launched this report into mining waste (tailings) at Grasberg mine, a controversial mine in occupied West Papua, co-owned by British-Australian Rio Tinto and US company Freeport-MacMoRan....
When an April shower turns into a perfect storm
Dear friends, We’ve been busy again! Last month, we helped host a delegation from South Africa for the AGM of Lonmin plc, the company associated with the Marikana massacre in August 2012. Thumeka Magwangqana from Marikana women’s organisation Sikhala...
Update on spills at Anglo American's Minas Rio mine in Brazil
A pipeline in Brazil carrying iron ore more than 500 kms from Minas Gerias State to a terminal on the Atlantic Ocean burst twice during March 2018 in the District of Santo Antônio do Grama, leading to the suspension of the use of the pipeline for at least three...
Letter to Acacia Mining as its AGM approaches
London Mining Network has joined the Legal and Human Rights Centre, RAID, CORE and MiningWatch Canada in signing an open letter to the board of Acacia Mining, calling for an improvement in the company’s human rights record in Tanzania. Informal miners working on...