The scale of the 5 November tailings dam burst at the BHP Billiton/Vale-owned Samarco iron ore mine in Minas Gerais state, Brazil, continues to grow as the waste from the dam flows downstream. It seems it is becoming the biggest tailings dam disaster in history....
By Richard Solly, Co-ordinator, London Mining Network This year’s Vedanta AGM was preceded, as usual, by a vibrant and noisy demonstration organised by our friends at Foil Vedanta – one of a series of demonstrations against the company organised also in India...
Report on the AGM of Antofagasta plc, London, Wednesday 20 May 2015 by Richard Solly, Co-ordinator, London Mining Network Antofagasta plc is clearly rattled by the protests and legal challenges around its Los Pelambres copper mine in Chile, because company Chairman...
Mine workers from the Sintracarbon union at the Cerrejon coal mine in Colombia were in Britain last month for the Anglo American AGM, the Scottish Trade Union Congress meeting and meetings of IndustriALL global mine workers’ union. Sintracarbon is supporting...
Report on the Anglo American AGM, Thursday 23 April 2015 by Richard Solly, Co-ordinator, London Mining Network Company pressed on climate issues but puts its faith in technological fixes rather than pulling out of coal South African mine workers’ union NUM calls...
