This guest post by Kerima Mohideen is the first in an occasional series looking at women involved in resisting the impacts of the international mining industry. Eight per cent of the Indian population are Adivasis (Indigenous people),which amounts to over 84 million...
Rosia Montana (photo: Glyn Thomas) By Richard Solly, London Mining Network Co-ordinator I’ve just come back from a week at Rosia Montana in the beautiful Apuseni mountains of west central Romania. I was representing London Mining Network at the annual Fanfest...
Villagers from Tabaco stand in the ruins of their house after the 9 August 2001 eviction By Richard Solly, Colombia Solidarity Campaign member and Co-ordinator of London Mining Network Today, 9 August 2014, is the 13th anniversary of the brutal eviction of the small...
This article, by Nostromo Research, first appeared on the Mines and Communities (MAC) website on 6 August 2014. It’s not often that MAC can offer a true “exclusive” – something no-one else has yet published and which addresses one of the worst...
It comes to something when a company can make a former Chief Executive of the rapacious Rio Tinto look good. But Vedanta makes practically anyone look good by comparison. And former Rio Tinto CEO Tom Albanese, now CEO of Vedanta, provided a breath of fresh air at...
Commentary by mining researcher Roger Moody The Mining Journal published on June 27th a ranking of the world’s biggest mining companies, by both their market capitalisation and annual revenues. It makes for some interesting reading, since there have been some...
Dutch NGO PAX is calling on five Dutch and European power companies to stop buying Colombian ‘blood coal’ from the mining companies Drummond (a private US company) and Prodeco (owned by London-listed Glencore Xstrata). These mining companies must first contribute to...
‘Glencore’s ruthless cost-cutting harms communities in the Congo’, say NGOs A new in-depth study about Glencore’s Congolese mines – ‘PR or Progress? Glencore’s Corporate Responsibility in the Democratic Republic of the Congo ’ – published by Rights and...
By Richard Solly, member of Colombia Solidarity Campaign and Co-ordinator of London Mining Network. 24 June 2014 The shock of the new For nearly fourteen years, I have been working in support of communities affected by the Cerrejon coal mine, a vast opencast mine in...
This guest blog by Peter Frankental of Amnesty International UK first appeared on the Institute for Human Rights and Business website. Those of a certain age may remember that quintessentially British comedy Fawlty Towers where the hotel owner, Basil Fawlty, has to...
London Mining Network’s co-chair Andy Whitmore has become the latest person associated with LMN to undertake an iconic, ‘ in the cab’ interview with Mark the Artist Taxi Driver. Mark and Andy talk on the subject of Glencore Xstrata, and particularly...
On 21 May, London-listed Chilean mining company Antofagasta plc held its Annual General Meeting in London, at which it presented its annual report. The report is interesting for what it does NOT say as well as for what it does. The company’s subsidiary Minera...
