La Colosa: An Imminent Threat
La Colosa Open-Pit Gold Mining Project: an imminent threat to climate change and local communities in Colombia. La Colosa is AngloGold Ashanti’s (AGA) proposed open-pit gold mining project in Tolima, Colombia. This exploratory project threatens to devastate the...
13 September – Do multinationals respect laws protecting human rights and preventing climate change?
Location: House of Commons, WestminsterDate: 13 September. Time: 18:00 – 19:00 Reservation Essential (limited spaces). Register HERE Peasant farmer communities, local citizens and local government in Cajamarca, Colombia, are confronting the multinational Anglo Gold...
NEW Report – Stop ISDS: International Mission to Colombia
Disponible en Español aqui Final report of the international mission to #StopISDS recommends Colombia’s withdrawal from the system of corporate abuse and impunity, by way of a citizens’ audit Today, the International Mission to #StopISDS launches its final...
The Corporate Make-up of the Mining Industry in South Africa: Profit Survey 2023
Thank you to Andy Higginbottom for this timely and informative report on the current state of the mining industry in South Africa. To learn more about the activities planned for the 11th anniversary of the Marikana Massacre, see our post here. This study ‘follows the...
The Marikana Massace – 11 Years Later
16 August 2023 will mark the 11th anniversary of the Marikana Massacre, in which 34 striking mine workers were shot dead in South Africa. You can read more about the events surrounding the strike in this piece by Saleh Mamon, written on the 10th anniversary of the...
23 August – Resisting Mining Book Club Extra: The Bermuda Connection
Lonmin was the corporation responsible for urging the South African state to carry out the massacre of 34 striking mineworkers on 16 August 2012. Lonmin refused to negotiate with its workers for a living wage, and instead called on the police who shot them down in...
16 August – Eleventh Anniversary of the Marikana Massacre
On 16 August 2012 the South African police shot dead 34 platinum miners on strike for a living wage from their employer Lonmin, a descendant of notorious UK company Lonrho, founded during Cecil Rhodes’ brutal white settler colonial occupation of southern Africa. Join...
The Troubling Past of Anglo American: South African Apartheid Profiteers
This is the first in a short series of blogs on the history and legacy of Anglo American around the world by LMN’s Communications Coordinator, Saul Jones Most of us are familiar with the basic outline of the story of South African apartheid – from the late...
19 July – Resisting Mining Book Club: The Heart of Our Earth
Wednesday 19 July, 18:00 – 20:00 At our next Resisting Mining Book Club event, we’ll be talking to Tom Gatehouse about his book The Heart of Our Earth: Community resistance to mining in Latin America. This book tells the story of the unprecedented...
Rio Tinto Roadblock: Community Organisers Threatened in Madagascar
On 2 June, thousands gathered to block the main road to Rio Tinto’s QMM mine in Madagascar. This protest follows an offer of a compensation and indemnification payment by the mining company, which many say falls far short of the value of the losses suffered by...