Freeport-Rio Tinto workers on strike at Grasberg

…ago, 8,000 of them went on strike at the Grasberg mine, the world’s biggest single source of mined gold and one of its leading copper producers. See http://www.minesandcommunities.org/article.php?a=11038. Workers started…

ICMM accepts new members

…US company Freeport-McMoRan which, with help from Rio Tinto, runs the largest and possibly the most destructive copper-gold mine in the world, at Grasberg in Indonesian-occupied West Papua. See http://www.icmm.com/page/58391/icmm-welcomes-areva-and-hydro-as-its-two-latest-members….