Papua New Guinea refuses lease extension for Barrick’s Porgera mine

Previous article on MAC – Barrick Gold battles with Papua New Guinea’s citizens and government Lease extension for PNG’s Porgera … More

Uganda: The Unapproved Small-Time Uganda Labor Union Taking On Multinational Mining Companies

Photo: Jonny Caspari/unsplash (File photo) 9 April 2020 Deutsche Welle (Bonn) By Isabella Bauer, Samuel Lokiru Uganda’s Karamoja region is … More

Trump order encourages US to mine the moon

Published by MAC on 2020-04-11Source: Guardian, Mining.com (2020-04-14) These articles, outlining President Trumps’ enthusiasm for pursuing mining unilaterally in space, … More

USA mining industry uses Corona virus as self-exculpating pretext

Published by MAC on 2020-03-22Source: Bloomberg news (2020-03-20) It’s clearly a version of the English schoolchild’s legendary excuse for failing … More

The Week’s Essay: Putting BHP at the heart of Ecuadorian destruction

Published by MAC on 2020-03-02Source: The Ecologist (2020-02-21) The world’s richest extractive company, Australian and British registered BHP, is aiming … More

Many protesters block entry to Canada’s premier mining event

Published by MAC on 2020-03-02Source: mining.com (2020-03-02) Anti-mining protesters block entrances to PDAC annual convention Valentina Ruiz Leotaud mining.com 1 … More

Canada’s Supreme Court says Nevsun must face “slavery” charges

Published by MAC on 2020-02-29Source: MiningWatch Canada (2020-02-29) And do so in Canada itself After years of attempts by Nevsun … More

Tanzania: People Do Not Eat GDP – Kenyan Scholar PLO Lumumba Tells Dar es Salaam Mining Forum

Sunday 23rd February 2020 Kenya law professor, Patrick Loch Otieno (PLO) Lumumba By Alfred Zacharia @azacharia3 azacharia@tz.nationmedia.com Dar es Salaam. Kenya law … More

Colombia looks to recover $181.5m in alleged unpaid royalties from South32

Reuters 19th February 2020 Colombia has launched an investigation over alleged unpaid royalties of619 billion pesos ($181.5 million) from iron … More

Indian Adivasis face destruction of historic Hasdeo forest

Published by MAC on 2020-02-12Source: Guardian (2020-02-10) A rash of newly approved mines could destroy swathes of the Hasdeo Arand … More