28 October 2014 Campaigners have welcomed the outcome of an inquiry into the extractives sector conducted by the Parliamentary Committee on Business, Innovation and Skills, calling on the government to take action on the sector that campaigners have accused of being...
This article, by Nostromo Research, first appeared on the Mines and Communities (MAC) website on 6 August 2014. It’s not often that MAC can offer a true “exclusive” – something no-one else has yet published and which addresses one of the worst...
Last month, LMN got together with friends at Rights and Accountability in Development, MiningWatch Canada and CORE to produce a briefing for investors and equity analysts. The subject was human rights at African Barrick Gold’s North Mara mine in Tanzania. There...
By Richard Solly, London Mining Network Co-ordinator (with assistance from Andy Whitmore, LMN Co-chair) Readers of a certain age (i.e. those who are beginning to get a bit long in the tooth, like me) may remember the original version of The Magic Roundabout, in which,...
Regulation, regulation, regulation … 4th March 2014 Richard Solly, the Co-ordinator of London Mining Network (LMN) was one of four civil society representatives called to give testimony today before a Department of Business Innovation and Skills Parliamentary Select...