Saturday June 9, 2018 In Summary • Mining now contributes around 4.8 per cent to the GDP, up from 3.5…
India – ‘The martyrs did it’: bloody end to Indian copper plant saga
Published by MAC on 2018-06-08 Source: The Guardian (2018-06-05) Yet another British newspaper has come out with an expose of…
Canada / India: Protestor deaths draw attention to years of misconduct by EDC client Vedanta
4 June 2018 Last month 13 people protesting the expansion of a copper smelter owned by Vedanta Limited were shot…
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…
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…
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…
Kenya to Audit Mining Licences
By Njiraini Muchira In Summary • Ministry of Mining says the licensing regime will be streamlined to ensure the government…
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…
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…
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…