COAL MINERS ARE NEXT ON THE LINE FOR COMPENSATION CLAIMS. CATHOLIC BISHOPS WILL FIGHT FOR THE COAL MINERS. Press release from South African Catholic Bishops Conference, 4 May 2018 As the sick miners won a settlement against gold mining companies yesterday, SACBC...
March to the Salvadoran Legislative Assembly to demand prohibition of metallic mining (March 9, 2017). By Andrés McKinley On March 29th, 2017, the small country of El Salvador became the first nation in the world to exercise its sovereign right to say “no” to metallic...
Activists have for the first time in Russian history succeeded in cancelling permission for new coal mining in a Russian court. London Mining Network has just received the press release below (translated from Russian) from our friends at Ecodefense. For background...
Report on the Antofagasta plc AGM, London, 24 May 2017 By Richard Solly, Co-ordinator, London Mining Network 1. This year, London Mining Network hosted a visit by Lucio Cuenca, Director of Observatorio Latinoamericano de Conflictos Ambientales, (OLCA, the Latin...
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...
