Marikana inquiry’s mistakes call for a rethink ON October 1 last year, the Marikana Commission of Inquiry held its first day of hearings into the events of and before August 16 of that year, during which 45 people were killed. The commission’s chairman, Judge Ian...
“If the experts at the U.S. Department of Energy are right, the startling “new” fuels of 2040 will be oil, coal, and natural gas — and we will find ourselves on a baking, painfully uncomfortable planet”. See...
Pressure is growing on the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) to agree tighter regulations on its funding of new coal power plants. Currently half of the EBRD’s energy portfolio supports fossil fuels, which includes US$1 billion in past financing...
Rock band Manic Street Preachers are backing next month’s unveiling of Wales’ national mining memorial and the commemoration marking the centenary of the Senghenydd mining disaster. The explosion at the Universal Colliery on 14 October 1913, is the...
Communities affected by opencast mines have called on the government to act after it was revealed that the shortfall in funds for cleaning up abandoned mines in East Ayrshire has more than doubled. See...
LAON press release, 14/9/13 “How is it that an opencast coal site, which when first worked in 1955, is worked for 40 years and over 34m tonnes of coal is extracted. Then it’s left derelict, is then considered as a landfill site amongst other uses, with another...
The Geneva home of Beny Steinmetz, the billionaire natural-resources investor who is Israel’s richest person, was raided by Swiss police, according to a person familiar with the matter. The raid was ordered by Geneva’s public prosecutor following a request...
An estimated 100 employees and contractors were evacuated from Rio Tinto’s Bingham Canyon copper mine in Utah, US, after the site was affected for a small landslide, the second this year in the same area. See...
Former Bougainville Revolutionary Army Commander, Sam Kauona, says the 10-year bloody conflict, which claimed the lives of many Bougainvilleans, Papua New Guineans and Solomon Islanders, was the result of colonialism. He demands that current laws on Bougainville be...
The top copper marketing executive at Rio Tinto Ltd. will take over as the head of Oyu Tolgoi, the giant Mongolian copper and gold mine controlled by Rio Tinto, Oyu Tolgoi said on Wednesday. Oyu Tolgoi’s board, including three new Mongolian members, approved the...
The annual miners’ conference which took place in Manila was accompanied by high security and the customary annual protests. Pickets outside the venue called for the immediate withdrawal of all military and paramilitary troops from mining areas and for the...
Glencore Xstrata to pursue $3bn iron ore project in Congo Mega miner Glencore Xstrata and London-listed junior partner Zanaga Iron Ore Company have decided to move forward with the assessment of their vast iron ore mining project in the Republic of Congo, which may...
