2013 – Protests against QMM mine are violently suppressed
…firing tear gas as well as handcuffing, beating and dragging protesters. Ever since mining started at the Mandena site in 2009, there has been a succession of protests and…
2009 – Mining begins at controversial QMM mine
QIT Minerals Madagascar (QMM), a local subsidiary of which Rio Tinto is 80% owner, starts mining for ilmenite at Mandena in southern Madagascar. The Anosy region where the mine is…
Anniversary of Brazil’s Brumadinho disaster, coal, and greenwashing
…Malach Consulting, and radioactivity specialist Dr Stella Swanson, of Swanson Environmental Strategies, have enabled robust scrutiny of how Rio Tinto/QMM’s has exceeded its permitted activity limit at the Mandena mine…
Death threats, and Lonmin’s last days
…Rio Tinto ‘admits buffer breach’ Rio Tinto has finally admitted that its local operator QIT Minerals Madagascar has breached an environmental buffer zone at its Mandena site. More information and…
Breaking free from BHP
…mining disaster in Latin American history. 9) Anglo American in the news The British Council’s Mandela exhibition: history or corporate whitewash? The “Mandela and Me” exhibition at the British Council…