The dog ate my homework: another year at Rio Tinto
…its plans to mine lithium in Serbia, its legacy at the Panguna mine in Bougainville and the Ranger uranium mine in Australia, and its impacts on the climate. The Chairman’s…
Death and destruction caused by mining in West Papua, but Rio Tinto denies responsibility
…to its legacy in Bougainville, off the east coast of neighbouring Papua New Guinea. Rio Tinto subsidiary BCL was forced to abandon its Panguna copper and gold mine there because…
Bougainville: Moratorium re-confirmed on Panguna mine
The long-lasting, intense, debate over a re-opening of the ill-fated Panguna copper-gold mine (formerly owned by Rio Tinto) in Bougainville, seems to have reached an interim resolution. (See: Bougainville announces…
Coal in England, and worker deaths in South Africa
…to court for allegedly misleading investors in relation to the miner’s botched coal investment in Mozambique. Bougainville: Moratorium re-confirmed on Panguna mine The long-lasting, intense, debate over a re-opening of…
Bougainville Panguna mine: Indefinite moratorium imposed at troubled site
The Bougainville Government has imposed an indefinite moratorium on mining at the troubled Panguna site — once the world’s biggest open-cut copper mines, formerly controlled by Rio Tinto….