In South Africa, the struggle for justice for former gold miners suffering from silicosis has taken a step forward with a landmark judgement on 13 May, which has paved the way for a class-action lawsuit to proceed against 30 gold mining companies named as respondents....
Our friends at BankTrack have recently published three briefings on British banks’ funding of the coal industry. It describes Royal Bank of Scotland as ‘the new “green bank” that still can’t shake off coal sector financing’. Its report on...
by Richard Solly, Co-ordinator, London Mining Network One of Antofagasta’s main claims to fame is the enormous El Mauro tailings dam above the small town of Caimanes in northern Chile, a town of some 1600 people (or 2000 if you include the mining company’s...
“Mining is going on a hundred metres away. When they started blasting, all the dust was brought to our vegetable gardens. Vegetables got covered with the coal dust, which is impossible to wash out. Now I don‘t want to harm myself by eating anything from this garden,”...
Antofagasta Minerals is a mining giant that runs the Pelambres open-cast copper mine in Chile. For almost a decade, the community of Caimanes in northern Chile have argued that the company has deprived them of a vital resource and fundamental human right: water....
BHP Billiton and its Brazilian multinational partner Vale have been hit with a $44 billion lawsuit over the deadly dam burst last November. Brazilian prosecutors have filed a civil lawsuit for 155 billion reais (just over $44 billion) against the companies. Experts...
Report by Hal Rhoades, The Gaia Foundation Protestors from several organisations gathered in London yesterday to call on British millionaire Graham Edwards to help end Australian mining company Mineral Resources Limited (MRC) involvement in a controversial Xolobeni...
Assassinated activist ‘Bazooka’ Rhadebe by Andy Higginbottom (*) At first sight the struggle of the Amadiba community in Pondoland, on South Africa’s Eastern Cape Wild Coast, to stop Australian company MRC mining on their land has nothing to do with Graham...
The eviction at Roche, La Guajira, Colombia, by the Colombian riot police squadron, ESMAD, 24 February 2016 AGM report by Richard Solly, Co-ordinator of London Mining Network and member of Colombia Solidarity Campaign This year’s Anglo American AGM was held...
By Richard Solly, Co-ordinator, London Mining Network, and member of Colombia Solidarity Campaign My colleague from LMN, Richard Harkinson, and I joined friends from Move Your Money at the AGM of international bank HSBC on Friday 22 April. I was surprised and,...
Every April we host activists and community representatives from around the world, who have come to London to challenge Rio Tinto over various aspects of its global operations; land-grabbing, strike-breaking, displacement of communities. It is often grim and harrowing...
Rio Tinto CEO Sam Walsh By Richard Solly, Co-ordinator, London Mining Network (LMN) If you are a parent and your children find it difficult to go off to sleep at night, you may consider asking Sam Walsh to read them a bedtime story. A few paragraphs would surely...
