…Andagueda in Choco and Antioquia departments. The companies affected include multinational gold miner AngloGold Ashanti, working in the area with Continental Gold, and Colombian company Exploraciones Choco Colombia. See http://colombiareports.com/colombia-news/news/28152-colombia-halts-mining-multinationals-in-indigenous-territory.html….
…with cyanide and mercury. Doima is a rice growing area and there are fears of pollution of water. To read full article in Spanish, see http://www.noalamina.org/mineria-latinoamerica/mineria-colombia/en-doima-declaran-paro-indefinido-contra-anglogold. For background, see http://colombiareports.com/colombia-news/news/27573-anglogold-ashanti-gold-mine-spurs-protests-in-central-colombia.html….
…the larger operators, already facing a few cases brought by smaller groups of miners, are not taking the latest case lightly. This affects AngloGold Ashanti and Anglo American. See http://www.business-humanrights.org/Links/Repository/1016868….
…permission to conduct a class action lawsuit on behalf of 17,000 former miners. Hundreds more are signing up with Spoor every month. Anglo American, AngloGold Ashanti, Gold Fields and Harmony…
Anglo American announced last week it has appointed current AngloGold Ashanti CEO, Mark Cutifani, as Cynthia Carroll’s replacement. Carroll, who took the reins at the transnational miner in March of…
