At the end of May, a High Court judge in London allowed 1,826 Zambian villagers to take legal action against mining giant Vedanta Resources Plc through the UK Courts. The villagers allege serious pollution by the company’s subsidiary Koncola Copper Mines (KCM)...
London Mining Network was involved in a protest on 24 May against the 5th annual seabed mining summit. We joined Australian-based Deep Sea Mining campaign and LMN member group War on Want in solidarity with communities across the Pacific who are calling for a Ban on...
by Richard Solly, Co-ordinator, London Mining Network One of Antofagasta’s main claims to fame is the enormous El Mauro tailings dam above the small town of Caimanes in northern Chile, a town of some 1600 people (or 2000 if you include the mining company’s...
“Mining is going on a hundred metres away. When they started blasting, all the dust was brought to our vegetable gardens. Vegetables got covered with the coal dust, which is impossible to wash out. Now I don‘t want to harm myself by eating anything from this garden,”...
From Cape to Cairo – Rhodes` vision of the conquest of Africa. He got as far as Northen Rhodesia , modern day Zambia, and through his agent and companies influenced mining development as far as Katanga now in DRC.by Kerima Mohideen and Richard Harkinson One Sided...
