Malaysia: Dangerous Scramble for Renewable Energy Resources

Jomo Kwame Sundaram KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, Sep 20 2023 (IPS) – The growing and changing material requirements for new technologies have … More

South Africa: Copper Boom Sparks Conflict Between Mine and Residents of Northern Cape Town

Ashraf Hendricks / GroundUp (CC BY-ND 4.0) Jubilee copper mine is just outside Concordia, a small town in the Northern … More

Nigeria: Rush for Solid Minerals Turns Farmers Into Sacrificial Lambs in Nasarawa

The excavation site at Toto 14 SEPTEMBER 2023 Premium Times (Abuja) By Eniitan Olorunyomi Chinese companies are at the forefront … More

Canada: Proposed tailings dam expansion would become world’s second largest yet doesn’t automatically require environmental assessment

14 September 2023, 11.57am EDT Source: Wilderness Committee + 21 organizations səl̓ílwətaʔɬ (Tsleil-Waututh), xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam) and Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish) Territories (Vancouver, B.C.) – … More

Malaysia: Enhancing Mining Revenue

Jomo Kwame Sundaram KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, Sep 13 2023 (IPS) – The commodity boom early this century was mainly driven by … More

Sudan activist warns of ‘dire consequences’ of toxic gold extraction

13/09/2023 09:58 PORT SUDAN A worker pans for gold in a pool containing mercury in Sudan (File photo: Leyland Cecco) A … More

20 September – Resisting Mining Book Club: Vanishing Sands

Sep 13, 2023 | Events, News LMN is delighted to announce our fifth Resisting Mining Book Club 2023 with guest speakers Orrin Pilkey, … More

Colombia: 19 September – Stop Corporate Lawsuits

Sep 13, 2023 | Events, News On 19 September, friends of London Mining Network will be hosting a webinar following up on the #StopISDS … More

DR Congo: Huge expansion in cobalt and copper mining is ‘wrecking lives’ – new report

12 Sep 2023, 12:20pm Kolwezi, where many homes have been destroyed since the mine was reopened in 2015 © Amnesty International … More

Canada: Illegal Mining Claims Discovered Inside Protected Area of Nopiming Provincial Park, Manitoba

12 September 2023, 10.46am EDT Source: Wilderness Committee (Winnipeg/Treaty 1 Territory and Homeland of the Métis Nation) Last week the Wilderness Committee discovered new mining … More