In order for the Resolution Copper project to go ahead in Arizona, the US congress has to first approve the land exchange since Oak Flat is public land. This faces a lot of opposition due to the project’s environmental impacts and how it will affect the indigenous...
Between 2013 and 2014 the QMM mine breaches the authorised limits of an environmental buffer zone, which is designed to protect a local estuary system. The statutory buffer limit has already been reduced from 80m to 50m and the mine extends even further beyond this....
The social and environmental harms caused by Rio Tinto’s subsidiary in Madagascar continue to spark protests and strikes. The protesters demand reparations and are resisting evictions, the destruction of sacred forests and exclusion from ancestral lands. In January...
In October 2012, a group of nomadic herders affected by the Oyu Tolgoi mine file a complaint to the Complaint Ombudsman Advisory (CAO) of the International Finance Corporation’s – one of the primary lenders for the mine. The complaint revolves around the...
An Environmental and Social Impact Assessment (ESIA) report is released in August 2012, primarily addressing the construction of an open pit mine while also mentioning underground block caving and future infrastructure. This ESIA is considered to have covered all...
