While Rio Tinto continues to develop its lithium mining project in Serbia without full transparency or completed impact assessments, resistance against the mine grows. Local farmers are reportedly being pressured to sell their land out of fear of expropriation, while...
A study by Publish What You Pay Madagascar (PWYP MG) on the perceptions, concerns and needs of the local communities living around the QMM mine in Mandena shows that over half the population perceive the water quality to have been degraded over the past ten years, ...
Following Rio Tinto’s incomplete impact assessment from 2012, the Mongolian parliament passes a resolution in November 2019 demanding that assessments of environmental and social impacts are carried out for the underground mine construction, operations, and the new...
Independent studies demonstrate that the QMM mine has contaminated the lakes and rivers where local people fish and collect drinking water. The water is found to contain elevated levels of uranium and lead approximately 50 times and 40 times higher respectively than...
The US Forest Service releases a Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) which outlines massive problems that Resolution Copper’s proposed mine would create. This follows a 2016 public comment period in which more than 120,000 comments were received in opposition...
