Canadian-owned, London-listed African Barrick Gold says it is giving cash payments and other compensation to 14 women who were sexually assaulted by police and security guards at its controversial North Mara gold mine in Tanzania. See...
There’s been yet more controversy surrounding the tussles between BSG Resources Ltd., Vale, Rio Tinto and the Government of Guinea over control of the country’s huge Simandou Project. In the most recent twist, BSG’s Beny Steinmetz has moved from...
Rio Tinto revealed last month that it is contemplating the sale of its 19.1% stake in Canada’s Northern Dynasty, the sole owner of the undeveloped Pebble copper-gold project in Alaska since Anglo American ditched it last September. See...
Peru has recently found itself in the mining spotlight for a number of reasons. A new report reveals that mining corporations have signed agreements with the National Police to secure their assets, thus providing an incentive to use force against mining project...
The Supreme Court has permitted Vedanta group company Sesa Goa to resume iron ore mining at Chitradurg in Karnataka but capped production from the mine at about 40% of its annual capacity. See...
The state government has been accused of abusing due process and colluding with one of the country’s biggest companies to rush through a controversial mine expansion in the Hunter Valley. It took the Department of Planning just 21 days to recommend that Rio...
Study shows the radioactive particles can escape into the environment, raising alarms about the national park See http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/dec/18/ranger-mine-risk-of-uranium-leakage-could-be-greater-than-thought?CMP=twt_fd. See also...
Turquoise Hill Resources Ltd said last month that parent Rio Tinto had secured extended commitments from the banks that have agreed to finance the underground expansion of the Oyu Tolgoi copper and gold mine in Mongolia. The extension, to March 31, gives Rio Tinto...
In the early morning of Friday 13th December high levels of Sulphur Dioxide were released from Vedanta subsidiary KCM’s Nchanga copper smelter in Chingola, Zambia. KCM’s Public Relations manager Joy Sata (a former journalist for Daily Mail Zambia) warned affected...
A Resolution from the World Wilderness Congress, released on 16th December, affirms that World Heritage Sites, Protected Areas, Community Conserved Areas, Indigenous Territories and Sacred Natural Sites, must be respected as “No Go Areas” and protected...
Critical articles on the issues of ‘voluntary’ mechanisms on human rights were released to coincide with the recent UN Forum on Business & Human Rights and the WTO meeting in Bali happening at the same time. See...
Civil society groups across the Pacific criticise SOPAC and its development of a regional regulatory framework on deep sea mining (DSM). They argue that it facilitates and pre-empts DSM before Pacific Island communities have had the opportunity to debate whether this...
