Chilean Supreme Court rules in favour of the Caimanes Community by Javiera Martinez On 6 May 2020, for the first time, the Caimanes Community in Chile witnessed a toxic cloud over its territory (1). The toxic cloud comes from the “El Mauro” tailing dams, owned by...
By Javiera Martinez Last weekend was a historic step forward in Chile. During Saturday and Sunday, the Chilean people voted in the elections to choose members of the body that will draft a new constitution (1). The 1980 constitution was imposed, through repression,...
Dust rising from the tailings storage facility behind the Mauro dam at Los Pelambres mine By Richard Solly, Co-ordinator, London Mining Network, with assistance from Javiera Martinez For background, see our 2017 report, In the Valley of the Shadow of Death. Other...
Press release 23 February 2021 Photo: Lawrence Thompson Rights groups write to 10 leading ESG investment firms urging them to intervene “Anglo American’s failure to act on the toxic legacy at Kabwe stands in sharp contrast to the company’s public human...
The well occupation. Credit: Patricio Duran/El Melón community By Javiera Martinez Chile faces one of the worst water scarcity crises in recent years (1). One of the main causes is mining activity in its territory. There is massive extraction of water by transnational...
