Communities in Brazil blockade a road in protest of Anglo American’s ‘tailings dam terrorism’. Photo credit: Larissa Rabelo Nunes For communities based on land where large-scale mining sites have been constructed, tailings, the waste product of...
BHP AGM 2022 : 10 November, Perth, Australia BHP is an Anglo-Australian mining company headquartered in Melbourne, Australia, and listed on the London Stock Exchange. It is one of the largest mining companies in the world. In June 2022, BHP stated that its...
Today 157 scientists, community groups, Indigenous peoples and civil society groups endorsed an updated set of guidelines for improving the management of mine waste disposal facilities, also known as tailings dams. Based on consultation with over 200 stakeholders and...
Presentation for Grief and Grievance: The Misery of Life with Rio Tinto as a Neighbour London Mining Network – April 6 2022 Catherine Coumans, MiningWatch Canada All major efforts to create or update standards for the extractive sector – post 2011 – include a...
In June 2020, we collaborated with Earthworks, Malach Consulting, MiningWatch Canada, and CSP2 to publish a set of recommendations on responsible mine tailings management. The result, which we named ‘Safety First’, was a response to the Global Industry...
