Anglo American charged for breaching environmental laws in Chile

Chile’s environmental regulator, the SMA,  is bringing charges against mining giant Anglo American’s local division, after inspections conducted last April showed the company breached several environmental laws. According to local newspaper La Segunda, the...

BHP Billiton in trouble again in Papua New Guinea

The Ok Tedi mine in PNG The Faustian Contract between BHP and PNG After killing one of the world’s most important rivers and subjecting hundreds of thousands of Western Province peoples to continuing environmental impacts, BHP Billiton pledged to give back its shares...

Vedanta funding may land Indian political parties in the soup

The Congress and the BJP Parties have been receiving huge amounts in funds from Anil Agarwal’s London-based Vedanta Group through its subsidiaries in India, raising questions from a civil society group over the alleged foreign funding of the political parties. Between...

ENRC wages battle over leaks as London departure nears

London-listed Kazakh miner ENRC is pressing ahead with its battle against a former board member whom it accuses of orchestrating damaging leaks, handing a London court what it says are transcripts of conversations detailing sensitive information. ENRC is set to delist...

London Metal Exchange warehousing plan fails to entice

The London Metal Exchange (LME) may have to return to the drawing board as enthusiasm wanes for its third attempt in as many years to head off a crisis over its warehouse system. Storage firms owned by big banks and trade houses have made money by building stocks in...

Ousted Rio Tinto boss makes comeback at Vedanta

Tom Albanese has taken on a senior advisory role at Vedanta just eight months after being ousted as Rio Tinto CEO. See http://www.mineweb.com/mineweb/content/en/mineweb-fast-news?oid=205086&sn=Detail. See also: Former Rio Tinto boss joins Vedanta,...

Vedanta's PR Campaign is As Shady As You'd Expect

Twelve villages in the state of Orissa in India voted against the plans by Vedanta Aluminium Limited to quarry the Niyamgiri hills for bauxite last month in a historic referendum mandated by the Supreme Court. Vedanta initially signed a memorandum with the state...

Anglo American pulls out of Pebble copper project

Mining group Anglo American has pulled out of the Pebble copper-gold project in Alaska, less than two months after pledging to halve a $17 billion pipeline of potential mines and bring down the cost of keeping future options open. The decision, announced on Monday,...