2019 – Acid spill kills 18; mine collapse kills 41

In 2019, a truck carrying sulphuric acid to Glencore’s Mutanda mine in the Democratic Republic of Congo collides with two other vehicles and kills 18 people in the spill.1 Just 4 months later, at Glencore’s neighbouring Katanga mine, 41 artisanal miners are killed...

2018 – Glencore-Xstrata fined over DRC corruption

When the Paradise Papers bring the corrupt dealings of Glencore executives in the DRC to public attention, legal investigations begin across the world. The first of these to conclude, in 2018, is a probe by the Ontario Securities Commission – the regulator for...

2017 – Children poisoned in Cerro de Pasco

In 2017 Glencore buys a majority stake in the Cerro de Pasco mine, an open-pit mine in the middle of a major Peruvian city, and resumes mining operations.1 After operations begin again – they had been paused for 11 months – the heavy metal poisoning of...

2015 – More anti-mining advocates murdered at the Tampakan mine

On the 7th September 2015, Emeri Samarca, the director of an indigenous Lumad school of Sustainable Agriculture, is found tied to a chair with his throat slit by members of the Magahat-Bidani militia, who are reportedly under the control of the Phillipine army. The...