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...
Dear friends, The world’s biggest mining company, BHP, has announced that it intends to terminate its dual-listed status, with BHP plc incorporated in the UK and BHP Ltd in Australia, and simplify its structure by becoming primarily an Australian company, with...
Report by Richard Solly, Co-ordinator, London Mining Network, with assistance from Andrew Hickman, Andy Whitmore, Dina Rui, Roger Featherstone, Roger Moody, Sukhgerel Dugersuren, Yvonne Orengo and Zoe Lujic. Rio Tinto’s London AGM on 9 April 2021 was the first...
