Brexit talks may be rolling on, but the UK is still part of the EU for now. As such, London Mining Network has signed up to this new fact-sheet ‘We make the rules! How the EU intervenes in the fiscal policy of resource rich countries’, written by...
Public meeting, London, Tuesday 23 May, 7pm – 9pm Room 243, Second floor, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU Mining-related conflicts in Chile – the British connection Speaker: Lucio Cuenca Berger, OLCA (Latin American Observatory of Environmental...
Patricia Generoso Thomas Guerra and Rodrigo Peret from Brazil outside the Anglo American AGM (photo: Christian McLaughlin) Report by Richard Solly, Co-ordinator, London Mining Network, and member of Colombia Solidarity Campaign, with assistance from Andy Whitmore and...
In April, London Mining Network celebrated our tenth anniversary, celebrating at SOAS University of London, where we launched in April 2007. We received many messages of support, for all of which we are very grateful. Here are a few of them. From Glen Mpufane,...
PRESS RELEASE – 21 April 2017 – London Mining Network Brazilians to challenge Anglo American push to expand tailings dam seven-times larger than deadly Samarco dam, next to the Doce River basin impacted by November 2015 disaster A villager from a community living...
Rio Tinto subsidiary QMM’s ilmenite mine in Madagascar Report on the Rio Tinto AGM, London, Wednesday 12 April 2017 By Richard Solly, Co-ordinator, London Mining Network with assistance from Albert Beale, Andrew Hickman, Andy Whitmore, Mamy Rakotondrainibe,...
PRESS RELEASE: Colombia Solidarity Campaign 28 March 2017 Citizens of Cajamarca vote 98% against La Colosa AngloGold Ashanti open cast gold mining project The Consulta Popular (a popular consultation or referendum) held in Cajamarca, Colombia, on 26 March 2017...
Following previous updates and activism on the issue of conflict minerals (see: EU agrees mandatory law on conflict minerals, but exemptions cause concern and Last chance to influence EU Conflict Minerals Regulation) the European Union Parliament has now officially...
Saturday 8 April 2017 10 30am – 4.00pm Hosted by Friends of the Earth, 139 Clapham Road, Stockwell, London, SW9 0HP Book your free place now Share the Facebook event From Madagascar to Mongolia, from Macedonia to middle England, mining and other sectors are using new...
Colombian riot police carry out forced eviction at Roche, La Guajira, Colombia, on 24 February 2016, so that the Cerrejon coal mine can expand. In late February, a delegation of Church investors from several countries visited coal mining regions in the provinces of...
Members of indigenous Wayuu communities recently blocked the railway carrying coal from the Cerrejon mine (a joint venture of BHP Billiton, Glencore and Anglo American) to the export port on the coast. The protest was violently attacked by police. The protest came in...
By Richard Solly, Co-ordinator, London Mining Network On 16 August, 2012, South African police shot and killed 34 striking miners at Lonmin’s Marikana platinum mine. Lonmin is a British company – successor to Lonrho, which British Conservative Prime Minister...
