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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Battling for lithium – and water – in Chile’s Atacama desert
Published by MAC on 2020-02-12Source: Reuters (2020-02-10) Top lithium miner seeks to monitor water scarcity in parched Chile salt flat…
Africa: A Tale of Two Indabas – Cape Town’s Parallel Mining Conferences and ‘The New Scramble for Africa’
6th February 2020 Martha Marcuson Global Witness (London) PRESS RELEASE In Cape Town this week, two very different conferences on…
The Mid-Week Essay: How India’s rulers betrayed its Adivasis
Published by MAC on 2020-02-11Source: Ground Xero (India) (2020-02-04) Post-Posco period is scarred by illegality, violence, and blatant deception A…
Tanzania: Dar-Barrick Deal Lauded As Best Ever
31st January 2020 Tanzania Daily News (Dar es Salaam) By Nelly Mtema in Dodoma THE recently sealed Tanzania Barrick mining deal has…
