


The struggle of a community in Sonora against the Grupo Fresnillo mining company in Mexico
Credit: Pie de Página The ejido (community) of El Bajío is located in the municipality of Caborca, Sonora, in the coastal region of northeastern Mexico. In 1997, the mine with the same name, owned by the Penmont subsidiary of Grupo Peñoles, was installed on La...
Re-opening the Panguna mine? Not yet…
At the beginning of February, the Panguna copper mine in central Bougainville in the Autonomous Region of Bougainville (Papua New Guinea) drew international attention once more when the Autonomous Bougainville Government (ABG) announced that, together with the chiefs...
Mongolian herders protest at Rio Tinto’s Oyu Tolgoi mine
Traditional herders from Khanbogd, Mongolia, held a demonstration at the gates of the Rio-Tinto controlled Oyu Tolgoi copper-gold mine on Tuesday 11 January, 2022. The herders are demanding that the International Finance Corporation (the private finance arm of the...