For earlier updates, see https://londonminingnetwork.org/2016/02/updates-on-bhp-billitons-brazilian-dam-disaster/. BHP agrees to $US2.3b Samarco settlement BHP Billiton’s Samarco joint venture will pay up to $US2.3 billion ($A3.15 billion) over six years after...
Protest against the Skouries gold mine There’s been dramatic back-and-forth over London-listed Canadian company Eldorado Gold’s Skouries gold mining project in Halkidiki, Greece. Over the Christmas holidays members of the Plataforma pola defensa de...
Toxic mud from the Samarco tailings dam disaster reached the Atlantic Ocean on 22 November Arsenic and mercury have been detected in the waste. Allegations have been made that the disaster was the result of industry and government negligence. The disaster is...
By Richard Solly, Co-ordinator, London Mining Network This year’s Vedanta AGM was preceded, as usual, by a vibrant and noisy demonstration organised by our friends at Foil Vedanta – one of a series of demonstrations against the company organised also in India...
Report on the AGM of Antofagasta plc, London, Wednesday 20 May 2015 by Richard Solly, Co-ordinator, London Mining Network Antofagasta plc is clearly rattled by the protests and legal challenges around its Los Pelambres copper mine in Chile, because company Chairman...
