Catastrophic mining disaster in Brazil, and arrests in the UK
Dear friends, Last Friday there was a catastrophic tailings dam burst at Brumadinho in Brazil, at an iron ore mine run by Brazilian multinational Vale. Although the environmental damage done seems to be much less than when the Fundao tailings dam burst in November...
London Mining Network comment on mining waste disaster in Brazil
The catastrophic spill from Brazilian company Vale’s Brumadinho mining waste dam in Minas Gerais state is the second massive waste dam collapse in Brazil in recent years. The last one was at Mariana, in the same state, in November 2015, at the Samarco iron ore mine...
"You have failed us": report on the London AGM of BHP, 17 October 2018
Full report on the AGM by Richard Solly, Co-ordinator, London Mining Network 1. There is a webcast of the introductory speeches by Chairman Ken MacKenzie and CEO Andrew Mackenzie at https://edge.media-server.com/m6/p/gesyeeo5 (registration is necessary). BHP no longer...