Baluchistan objects to Antofagasta/Barrick venture

Pakistan’s Baluchistan provincial government has re-iterated its opposition to a major copper-gold project, being touted by UK-listed Antofagasta and Canada’s Barrick Gold. Among its objections are a claim that the…

Copper miners in Zambia fearful of ‘King Cobra’

…the pockets of mining companies, Bloomberg reports. Among the foreign companies with copper interests in Zambia are Vancouver-based First Quantum Minerals; Glencore International Plc; London-based Vedanta Resources Plc; and Barrick

Papua New Guinea earmarks mineral rights for its indigenous peoples

…direction? See http://www.minesandcommunities.org/article.php?a=11149. Among the companies affected by this law would be Canada’s Barrick Gold, the world’s largest gold producer, in which a number of UK-based funds invest (see http://moneytometal.org/index.php?title=Special%3ASearch&search=Barrick&go=Go)….