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...
Demonstration at the Mining on Top Africa Summit in London, 25 June at 18:00 Park Plaza Riverbank Hotel, 18 Albert Embankment, London SE1 7TJ The Mining on Top Africa London Summit says it aims to drive economic and social development in Africa. Yet there is a total...
Press release from Loose Anti Opencast Network, 30 January 2015 Yesterday afternoon MPs debated the issue of un-restored opencast coal sites that exist across England, Scotland and Wales in a debate entitled “Opencast Coal Sites (Restoration)” (1) . MPs from Wales,...
Continued use of coal is ecologically unsustainable – but it also looks as though it is economically unsustainable as well. Pressures on coal show no signs of ending Arguably, most of the world’s coal assets are already stranded — doomed by the new global...
Commentary by mining researcher Roger Moody The Mining Journal published on June 27th a ranking of the world’s biggest mining companies, by both their market capitalisation and annual revenues. It makes for some interesting reading, since there have been some...