We’re pleased to present Christoph Vogel’s Conflict Minerals, Inc as the subject of our next Resisting Mining Book Club. We will hear from Christoph on the main points of the book before opening the floor to questions and discussion. About the Book In the...
Dear friends, Very best wishes of the season to all of you! After a very busy period with the BHP AGM, the COP26 talks, a visit to London by friends from Save Our Sperrins in Northern Ireland, and a process of hiring two new part-time workers, we are ending the year...
Dear friends, Monday 25 January was the second anniversary of the catastrophic tailings dam collapse at Vale’s iron ore mine at Brumadinho in Brazil. Vale is a Brazilian mining company with significant UK investment. We worked with our friends in Brazil to mark...
By Andy Whitmore, London Mining Network Glencore held its Annual General Meeting in the Theater-Casino in the sleepy Swiss lake-side town of Zug on 2 May. I have been to many major mining company AGMs over the years in London, but this was my first foray to a Swiss...
Our friends at RAID (Rights and Accountability in Development) recently published a report called ‘Bribery in its purest form’: Och-Ziff, asset laundering and the London connection. A recent article in the Guardian pointed out that wealthy countries like the UK gain...
