Key points: 23 million people globally suffer from the impacts of existing contamination of soil and water as a result of mine tailings and mine wastewater. Campaigners and communities from six countries are coming together in London to pressure Rio Tinto to take...
With some 23 million people already suffering globally from the impacts of existing toxic water contamination as a result of mine tailings and wastewater, and this number likely to increase with the exponential increase of mineral extraction for the energy transition,...
5 April 2023, 18:00 – 20:30, Amnesty International, New Inn Yard, EC2A 3EA Rio Tinto’s business harms people, our climate and the natural world. No matter how it tries to greenwash what it does or reframes its practices as being for the good of the climate, the...
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...
Report on the Rio Tinto plc AGM, London, 8 April 2022 By Richard Solly, Co-ordinator, London Mining Network, with assistance from Andy Whitmore, Richard Harkinson, Roger Featherstone and Yvonne Orengo Introduction Despite the unpleasantness of mining company AGMs, it...