Key points: Campaigners are coming together in London echoing community demands that Rio Tinto’s shareholders put pressure on addressing a series of long-standing issues concerning lack of transparency and accountability regarding social and environmental impacts. The...
For too long Rio Tinto has made claims about its social and environmental performance, and published glossy reports that do not reflect the reality for communities living on the ground around their mines. Investors need to “Mind the Gap” between what Rio...
Marikana community activist Ntombifikile Mthethwa (Photo: Alon Skuy) Dear friends, Amidst all the uncertainties, conflicts and injustices in the news at present, we at London Mining Network note with outrage and great sadness the murder this week of Ntombifikile...
Friends in Australia tackled Rio Tinto’s board on numerous issues at the company’s 5 May AGM, building on the interactions at the London AGM on 8 April. The company’s responses were similarly unimpressive. Notes were taken of the Question and Answer...
Traditional herders from Khanbogd, Mongolia, held a demonstration at the gates of the Rio-Tinto controlled Oyu Tolgoi copper-gold mine on Tuesday 11 January, 2022. The herders are demanding that the International Finance Corporation (the private finance arm of the...
