Human rights and environmental defenders challenging Anglo American’s Minas Rio project in Brazil have received threats, including death threats, from people who support the project. The Serviço Interfranciscano de Justiça, Paz e Ecologia and Franciscans...
In April, 2017, London Mining Network hosted visitors from Brazil for the AGM of Anglo American plc. They spoke about the impacts of Anglo American’s Minas Rio iron ore project. Here is a briefing about that project and the problems that it has caused. Briefing...
Patricia Generoso Thomas Guerra and Rodrigo Peret from Brazil outside the Anglo American AGM (photo: Christian McLaughlin) Report by Richard Solly, Co-ordinator, London Mining Network, and member of Colombia Solidarity Campaign, with assistance from Andy Whitmore and...
PRESS RELEASE – 21 April 2017 – London Mining Network Brazilians to challenge Anglo American push to expand tailings dam seven-times larger than deadly Samarco dam, next to the Doce River basin impacted by November 2015 disaster A villager from a community living...
Rio Tinto, the world’s second largest mining company, first suspended , then fired, Alan Davies, head of its energy and mineral division, after discovering payments made to a consultant working on its Simandou iron ore project in Guinea. Alan Davies vowed to take the...
