4 June 2018 Last month 13 people protesting the expansion of a copper smelter owned by Vedanta Limited were shot … More
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Ghana: Newmont penalised for involvement in six mineworker deaths
Published by MAC on 2018-06-10 Source: Xinhua.net (2018-06-04) Newmont Ghana Gold Limited (NGGL) has been fined nearly 8 million US … More
Ecuador: Chinese company ordered to stop mining in ground-breaking legal judgment
Published by MAC on 2018-06-04 Source: mining.com (2018-06-03) A Chinese company has been ordered by an Ecuadorian judge to halt … More
India: Bloody police killings of civil protestors against Vedanta’s copper operations
Published by MAC on 2018-05-23 Further deaths are now reported Late news: death toll officially stands at 13 The Tuticorin … More
Kenya to Audit Mining Licences
By Njiraini Muchira In Summary • Ministry of Mining says the licensing regime will be streamlined to ensure the government … More
Tanzania: How children are lured into mining
By Syriacus Buguzi sbuguzi@thecitizen.co.tz 10th May 2018 In Summary •The report, released earlier this week by researchers from the Ifakara … More
Anglo American divests from Nautilus deep sea mining risks
Published by MAC on 2018-05-09 The major mining multinational Anglo American has divested from the Solwara 1 deep sea mining … More
World: Restore sanity to high office, ban uranium shipments to nuclear-armed countries
Gerard Boyce | May 04, 2018 President Trump’s late night Twitter rants and the seemingly arbitrary manner in which he … More
Over 200 million tonnes of mine wastes are dumped into world oceans
220 Million Tonnes! Earthworks 3rd May 2018 That’s how much hazardous waste mining companies dump directly into our oceans, rivers … More
Corporate support for disclosing oil and mining deals is improving but more work needed to turn words into reality
Published: 3rd May 2018 A new Oxfam survey of 40 oil, gas and mining companies has found that they are … More