New report highlights allegations of corruption, environmental damage and water depletion around Latin America’s largest mine waste tailings dam, owned by British miner Antofagasta, released the week of their 2017 London AGM. Read the full report here. London Mining...
Public meeting, London, Tuesday 23 May, 7pm – 9pm Room 243, Second floor, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU Mining-related conflicts in Chile – the British connection Speaker: Lucio Cuenca Berger, OLCA (Latin American Observatory of Environmental...
Since the Antofagasta AGM in London on 18 May the dangers posed by its El Mauro tailings dam have been covered on Russia Today TV’s Going Underground programme, along with London Mining Network’s views on what the UK Government needs to do to pressure...
by Richard Solly, Co-ordinator, London Mining Network One of Antofagasta’s main claims to fame is the enormous El Mauro tailings dam above the small town of Caimanes in northern Chile, a town of some 1600 people (or 2000 if you include the mining company’s...
Antofagasta Minerals is a mining giant that runs the Pelambres open-cast copper mine in Chile. For almost a decade, the community of Caimanes in northern Chile have argued that the company has deprived them of a vital resource and fundamental human right: water....
