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13-05-2013 Brazil's Vale allegedly spied on social movements
09-04-2013 Brazil's environmental watchdog levels $10m fine on Anglo American over port accident
19-02-2013 Mining's threats to Brazil's forest and biodiversity
25-11-2012 Vale wins environmental permit for Brazil rail expansion
08-10-2012 Protest by Brazil's Indians halts Vale's Carajás railway
04-09-2012 Venezuela: Indigenous Yanonami "massacred" by illegal miners
21-08-2012 Belo Monte Dam Suspended by Brazilian Appeals Court
06-08-2012 Brazil: Judge halts rail project close to threatened tribe
17-07-2012 New Chinese-backed mine in Brazil requires damming of Vacaria River
26-06-2012 Indigenous Peoples challenge Rio+20
26-06-2012 Brazil freezes new mine claims pending reforms
26-06-2012 Human rights organisations address Earth Summit leaders
29-05-2012 Mining companies don't seem bothered by being corrupt
15-05-2012 Will Vale be forced to abort Apolo mission?
01-05-2012 Into the Vale of Death and Destruction
24-04-2012 Anglo American workers and shareholders demand silicosis compensation
11-04-2012 Another wall in the BRICS?
20-02-2012 More "black stuff" to be dug out of Latin America
07-02-2012 Public Eye award singles out mining company Vale, Barclays
31-01-2012 Indonesia's Tin Men face bleak future in a free market world
20-12-2011 Vale's mega vessel founders - as does world's biggest iron exporter
10-10-2011 London Calling examines a "unique" global survey of the rich
12-09-2011 Royalty and rights issues in Latin America
30-08-2011 Royalty debates revisit Latin American states
25-07-2011 Conference statement: Natural resources and the Mission of the Church in Latin America
30-05-2011 How much are human rights worth in Brazil's mining industry?
17-05-2011 Brazil Breaks Relations With Human Rights Commission
27-04-2011 Vale intends taking share in Belo Monte dam, Brazil
04-04-2011 Chinese Overseas Investments, 2006-2010
08-03-2011 ThyssenKrupp, Vale and the 'Metal Rain' in Rio de Janeiro
01-03-2011 Brazil: is iron/steel recycling on the rebound?
21-02-2011 Ventana falls into Batista's open arms
13-12-2010 London Calling wades through a curious wiki leak
13-12-2010 Federal prosecutors seek suspension of Vale´s Paragominas bauxite complex, Brazil
18-10-2010 Bolivia & Colombia deploy troops to curb illegal gold mining
14-09-2010 Ethical Tribunal on Transborder Mining in Latin America
16-08-2010 Zambia miners reject Vale
04-07-2010 Steel producers to enforce scrap price cut - Brazil
04-06-2010 Rio Tinto worried Australian tax may give other countries ideas
01-05-2010 International Open Letter of Those Affected by Vale
02-03-2010 Toxic e-wastes burden headed for dramatic rise
07-02-2010 Conflicts over mining: the illusory boundary between "legal" and "illegal"
25-01-2010 Brazil to demand participation in, and more taxes and royalties from, mining companies
25-01-2010 Call to 1st International Meeting for Those Affected by Vale
14-12-2009 Unions in Indonesia, Brazil and Canada Join Forces To Take On Vale-INCO
09-11-2009 Global campaign against Vale gains momentum
09-11-2009 Stephan Schmidheiny: Saint or Sinner?
02-11-2009 Ironing out the price: China collaborates with Ukraine
02-11-2009 Panama, the next diamond heaven?
22-09-2009 Media menaced by companies and governments - report
03-08-2009 Canada's Vale workers go south in protest
20-07-2009 The Chinese are coming - but perhaps not where you might expect
16-07-2009 London Calling investigates some capital "land grab" connections
16-06-2009 Selling iron to China: a killing in more senses than one
02-06-2009 Brazil beds down with Africa in ocean minerals' quest
02-06-2009 Why is China buying metals it doesn't need?
27-05-2009 Ecuador says key sectors must be nationalized
11-05-2009 Indigenous peoples demand veto right over mining, Brazil
27-04-2009 Mining company blames farmers for risking gobal food supplies
23-02-2009 Brazil:- Fisherman in Sepetiba Bay receives death threats - Polo Siderúrgico amenaza vida de pescadores
23-02-2009 Anglo American to cut 19,000 jobs as mining boom ends
23-02-2009 A world free of mercury? Not yet - but hope rises
02-02-2009 Can Rio get off the rocks? London Calling says it's a moral question
19-01-2009 Rio Tinto Suspends $205 Million Uruguay Port Project - Rio Tinto cancela obra en Uruguay
22-12-2008 Faced with crisis, Brazil's Vale asks for relaxation of labour laws - Protestan contra despidos de Vale
02-12-2008 Uruguay: Rio Tinto proposal blasted by intellectuals, artists, scientists and workers - Intelectuales, artistas, científicos y trabajadores repudian a Río Tinto en el Uruguay
02-12-2008 Brazil: Indigenous rights still denied
17-11-2008 Brazilian Dev't Bank approves $645 mln in financing for mining giant
10-11-2008 Money miasma means mixed messages
29-09-2008 Will China and Chile clasp iron hands?
16-09-2008 Brazil, Canadian, mining unions agree on mutual support
20-07-2008 Supply crunch: Brazil ban on asbestos to hit firms in India
14-07-2008 Brazil's Vale fined over timber - Gobierno brasileño multa a minera Vale
09-07-2008 Brazilian government accuses Vale of coercing peasants over compensation - Gobierno acusa a Vale de usurpar tierras
16-06-2008 Brazil's Vale readies 15 billion share offer, activists block railway - Vale prepara oferta de acciones por 15 mil millones, activistas bloquean vía férrea
10-03-2008 Brazil's MST attacks Vale - Protestas contra Vale
25-02-2008 Brazil's biggest dam project under fire
08-02-2008 Argentina in dispute with Uruguay over Rio Tinto port
08-02-2008 Metals traders address mining's "moral conflicts"
01-02-2008 China Update
25-01-2008 London Calling muses on the latest bout of mining's merger mania
21-01-2008 Following coal mine disaster, Mittal comes under investors' fire
10-01-2008 Latin America update
22-12-2007 Extraction to Destruction? Chinese policy and practise in mining & metals
20-12-2007 Brazilian roundup
10-11-2007 Latin America update
23-10-2007 China's iron-clad conundrum
10-10-2007 The Great Steal
09-10-2007 Latin America update
22-09-2007 Latin America update
15-09-2007 The popular referendum on September 16th
15-09-2007 COSTA RICA
14-09-2007 Zijin Tongguan sells 10 pct stake in Monterrico to South Korean copper smelter
14-09-2007 PERU
14-09-2007 Latin America update
14-09-2007 CHILE
14-09-2007 Latin America update - Plebiscito Popular por la nulidad de la privatización de la Compa&nti
12-09-2007 BOLIVIA
11-09-2007 MEXICO
07-09-2007 Are Canadian Investors Funding Terror Tactics in Ecuador?
06-09-2007 Canadian MP, Alexa McDonough, joins a Development and Peace fact finding mission to Honduras to inv
02-09-2007 HONDURAS
02-09-2007 Latin America update - Oficialismo planea que Constituyente vete miner­a a cielo abierto en Ecu
02-09-2007 Latin America update
01-09-2007 Women to the fore, not only in politics but also mining
01-09-2007 BRAZIL
29-08-2007 Peruvian Leaders Support $234,000 Fine of Doe Run Peru
29-08-2007 GUATEMALA
28-08-2007 PERU
28-08-2007 VENEZUELA
28-08-2007 DOMINICAN REPUBLIC
27-08-2007 Slave labor persists in Amazon charcoal works - ICC
25-08-2007 STATEMENT FROM CONAM (THE EPA of PERU)
24-08-2007 Police denounce protestors against mining operations
23-08-2007 Monterrico launches 80 mln usd private fund proposal for Rio Blanco communities
23-08-2007 BRAZIL
22-08-2007 ECUADOR
14-08-2007 Black Stuff And Nonsense
14-08-2007 Mining companies sharpen confrontation in Honduras
14-08-2007 Black stuff and nonsense
30-07-2007 CHILE
28-07-2007 Latin America update
28-07-2007 BRAZIL
28-07-2007 Latin America update - DENUNCIAN DE TRÁFICO DE TIERRAS EN LA ZONA MINERA DE INTAG, ECUADOR
25-07-2007 URGENT ACTION APPEAL - From Amnesty International USA
25-07-2007 Evidence of Land Trafficking in Intag
24-07-2007 PANAMA
23-07-2007 EVIDENCE OF LAND TRAFFICKING IN THE INTAG MINING ZONE
23-07-2007 ECUADOR
23-07-2007 Residents of Condorwain Range Demand Withdrawal of Barrick Gold
22-07-2007 Informal Miners Using Nazca Lines As Roadways
17-07-2007 COLOMBIA
15-07-2007 MEXICO
15-07-2007 Chemical Company Profits From Double Counting Of Carbon Credits
15-07-2007 Corruption allegations dog mining company
14-07-2007 Latin American update
14-07-2007 Latin American update - Ayabaca: Acuerdan Consulta Vecinal por Proyecto Minero Río Blanco pa
11-07-2007 CHILE: COPPER WORKERS' STRIKE SPREADS AS COLLAHUASI JOINS CODELCO
11-07-2007 COMMUNITY LEADER IMPLICATES ASCENDANT COPPER IN DEATH THREATS
05-07-2007 ECUADOR
04-07-2007 BRAZIL
04-07-2007 Aymaras Vow Mining Co. Will Restore Wetland
03-07-2007 COLOMBIA
29-06-2007 Environmental face-off: Catholic Church workers get ammunition for their fight in Latin America
26-06-2007 CHILE
26-06-2007 VENEZUELA
25-06-2007 Workers stage protests at Codelco mines in Chile
25-06-2007 Farmers Insist: Life Yes, Mining NO!
23-06-2007 Latin America update
23-06-2007 Twenty-Four Hour Strike Against MINSUR Mining Operations in the Community of Vilavilani, Tacna
23-06-2007 Latin America update
22-06-2007 COLOMBIA
21-06-2007 ARGENTINA
19-06-2007 GUATEMALA
19-06-2007 PERU
15-06-2007 PERU
10-06-2007 Declaration of Lake Buenos Aires - Lake General Carrera
08-06-2007 Most Chinese, Indians Back Carbon Cuts - Survey
08-06-2007 A survey intended to guage opinions on who's mainly responsible for global warming suggests that Chi
08-06-2007 EPA Loses Court Attempt to Weaken Clean Air Rule
08-06-2007 US update
08-06-2007 US Update
07-06-2007 States Urge US EPA to Tighten Rules on Coal Plants
04-06-2007 BRAZIL
01-06-2007 Two countries, 3 cities take stand Against ASARCO, ASARCO Fights Back
29-05-2007 CHILE
28-05-2007 Quicksilver Quandary
18-05-2007 China Update
18-05-2007 China update
17-05-2007 UN Project Cuts Carbon Emissions in Rural China
16-05-2007 Europe Lags, China Catches Up in Clean Energy Race
15-05-2007 PERU
15-05-2007 Miners' Woes Heard - If Faintly - in US
15-05-2007 EL SALVADOR
15-05-2007 Dangers ahead as China blindly expands titanium sponge smelting capacity - CNMIA official
12-05-2007 Latin American update
12-05-2007 Latin America update
10-05-2007 PARAGUAY
09-05-2007 Yanacocha's ore extraction cut in half
08-05-2007 ARGENTINA
07-05-2007 Anti-Mining Demonstrators Blockade Peruvian Roads
07-05-2007 BRAZIL
04-05-2007 Govt: Mining law changes seek to free up land
04-05-2007 China update
03-05-2007 Gerdau mulling expansion plans in China - Brazil
02-05-2007 China Climate Offensive Has Eye on Growth
02-05-2007 COLOMBIA
22-04-2007 Anglo under heavy fire
22-04-2007 Anglo Under Heavy Fire
13-04-2007 China update
13-04-2007 China update
08-04-2007 Nothing Green about Apple
04-04-2007 Xstrata Best Anglo American Suitor, Say London Analysts
24-03-2007 Latin America update - Correa advierte de "guerra civil" entre comunidades y empresas min
24-03-2007 Latin American Update
23-03-2007 Polluting U.S. Owned Smelter in Peru Brought Before OAS
22-03-2007 Environ authority suspends Xstrata 600MW Río Cuervo project
22-03-2007 Drummond denies colluding with far-right death squads to kill Colombia unionists
21-03-2007 CHILE
19-03-2007 MEXICO
17-03-2007 COLOMBIA
15-03-2007 ECUADOR
15-03-2007 India imposes iron ore export duty $6.78 per ton, possible impact on China's imports
15-03-2007 BRAZIL
15-03-2007 PERU
12-03-2007 OPEN LETTER TO THE MINISTER OF MINING AND ENERGY
09-03-2007 Latin American Update
09-03-2007 ARGENTINA
09-03-2007 Latin American update
08-03-2007 BRAZIL
07-03-2007 GUATEMALA
02-03-2007 China Orders Small Cement Plants to be Closed
02-03-2007 China update
02-03-2007 China update
28-02-2007 COLOMBIA
28-02-2007 Latin American update
28-02-2007 Latin American Update
27-02-2007 BRAZIL
27-02-2007 ARGENTINA
26-02-2007 VENEZUELA
20-02-2007 Thousands of Miners Strike a Year After Mexican Coal Mine Explosion That Killed 65 Workers
20-02-2007 Safety problems remain in Mexican mines
17-02-2007 A Hollywood Trial
16-02-2007 Meridian completely rules out Esquel gold project
14-02-2007 COMMUNIQUE TO NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL PUBLIC OPINION
09-02-2007 China Set To Launch Kyoto Clean Energy Fund
07-02-2007 China update
07-02-2007 China Update
12-01-2007 Brazilian Rains Kill Dozens and Broken Dam Leaves
12-01-2007 Major dam disaster strikes Brazilian communities
12-01-2007 Major dam disaster strikes Brazilian communities
11-01-2007 Normal drinking water supply suspended in Brazilian cities
15-12-2006 Court Fines Corus Over Fatal Steel Blast
14-12-2006 Latin American Update
12-12-2006 Brazil
06-12-2006 Latin American Update
05-12-2006 Gold Seekers Return To Serra Pelada In Brazil
29-11-2006 Mineworkers' Union At Cerrejon Mine, Colombia, Meeting
18-11-2006 Getting rid of mercury (but not yet)
18-11-2006 Getting rid of mercury (but not yet)
17-11-2006 Energy Department May Sell Surplus Mercury Stockpile
17-11-2006 22 States Write Mercury Controls Stricter than Feds'
15-11-2006 EU Lawmakers Put Mercury Thermometers out in Cold
04-11-2006 Latin American Update
04-11-2006 Latin American Update
04-11-2006 See: "DEMARCATION AND REGISTRATION OF INDIGENOUS LANDS IN BRAZIL" Meredith Hutchison, S
02-11-2006 ECUADOR
02-11-2006 ARGENTINA
31-10-2006 CVRD seeks damages
31-10-2006 BRAZIL
30-10-2006 Venezuelan gold project secure, Crystallex says
25-10-2006 VENEZUELA
22-10-2006 Brazil: Tribesmen Leave Iron Mine Belonging To Cvrd
22-10-2006 Latin American Update
22-10-2006 COLOMBIA
22-10-2006 Latin American Update
21-10-2006 The world's worst places
20-10-2006 Latin American Update
20-10-2006 Latin American Update
18-10-2006 Brazilian Indians Free Hostages At Cvrd Mine
13-10-2006 South Asia Update
09-10-2006 It's The Consumption, Stupid : Energy Outlook 2007
09-10-2006 It's the mining, stupid!
09-10-2006 It's the mining, stupid!
09-09-2006 Latin American Update
30-08-2006 Mercury and arsenic contamination are affecting communities outside the goldmines O Liberal
25-08-2006 Stripping Aotearoa tonne by tonne
15-08-2006 NORTH CHILE RESIDENTS MORE PRONE TO LUNG CANCER
10-06-2006 In a nuclear fix
10-06-2006 In a nuclear fix
10-06-2006 Miners' health may be the cost of a nuclear future
06-06-2006 Prime Minister Howard Hustles Australia Down Nuclear Path
06-06-2006 Global Nuclear Expansion Based on Plentiful Uranium Supply
06-06-2006 Uranium update: more slices of the yellowcake
06-06-2006 Uranium update: more slices of the yellowcake
05-06-2006 UCIL exploring uranium ore in Chattisgarh, Rajasthan, Karnataka
30-05-2006 Japan, China Eye Energy Cooperation for Better Ties
30-05-2006 China, India, Brazil Could Slash Energy Use - Report
30-05-2006 China Update
30-05-2006 China Update
28-05-2006 CHINA: 'WIN-WIN' DEALS IN AFRICA SANS RIGHTS
14-05-2006 Nationalisation - threat or promise?
11-05-2006 Latin American Update
11-05-2006 Latin American Update
10-05-2006 From Beaches To Streets Everyone Recycles Aluminum
09-05-2006 Tapirapés fight mining operations on their lands
08-05-2006 Brazil Officially Starts First Uranium Enrichment Facility
07-05-2006 Canadian Roundup
07-05-2006 Canadian Roundup
06-05-2006 How Morales Took On The Oil Giants - And Won His People Back
06-05-2006 Trashed Cans
04-05-2006 Latin American Update
04-05-2006 Latin American Update
04-05-2006 Anglo American's "gaps year" - and plenty of them!
04-05-2006 Please write letters to Canadian Foreign Minister, the Honorable Peter MacKay, copied to the Canadia
04-05-2006 Anglo American's "gaps year" - and plenty of them!
02-05-2006 De Beers Risks Losing Social License to Operate in Canada
02-05-2006 "Disinvest from Monterrico Metals"
30-04-2006 GOLD MINING - Eldorado starts up Kisladag mine
28-04-2006 Grave concern about the activities of Canadian mining company Metallica Resources Inc. in Mexico
28-04-2006 Urgent Action: Support the Mexican community of Cerro de San Pedro in their struggle against a Cana
26-04-2006 CANADA'S DOUBLE STANDARD ON ASBESTOS
26-04-2006 Chavez Defends Gas Pipeline That Cuts Across Amazonia After Signing Manifesto For Biodiversity
22-04-2006 Latin American Update
20-04-2006 Gold rush in Pará postponed by the government
20-04-2006 Mining Exploration Causing Alarm in Protected Areas of Brazil
17-04-2006 Workers Strike At Latin America's Biggest Gold Mine
15-04-2006 A report on the Anglo American plc AGM, held on 25 April 2006 at Institute of Electrical Engineers,
13-04-2006 Latin American Update
13-04-2006 Latin America Update: Active Civil Resistance in Cerro de San Pedro Against Minera San Xavier
07-04-2006 Cinta Larga Indians Acused of Killing Two Diamond Prospectors
05-04-2006 Guatemalan Constitutional Court Upholds Environmental Consults
04-04-2006 Active Civil Resistance in Cerro de San Pedro Against Minera San Xavier
19-03-2006 Latin America Update
19-03-2006 Latin America Update
07-03-2006 Child Labour Used In Brazilian Mines That Supply Ici Paints
14-02-2006 Brazil Indians Again Block Cvrd Iron Ore Railway
06-02-2006 LATIN AMERICAN UPDATE
06-02-2006 Latin American Update
03-02-2006 Brazil Frontier Mining Bill Nearly Drafted
30-01-2006 LATIN AMERICA UPDATE: January 30 2006
30-01-2006 LATIN AMERICA UPDATE: January 30 2006
25-01-2006 Brazil may give land to "wildcat" diamond miners
24-01-2006 Venezuela Threatens to Take Over Mines
23-01-2006 MINESUR: Venezuela/Brazil/Argentina agree to gigantic new mining plan
11-01-2006 Yanomami of Brazil - up against the miners
11-01-2006 Brazil Bauxite Mine Closed after Dam Burst
11-01-2006 Yanomami of Brazil - up against the miners
20-12-2005 Prospectors and Yanomami are a recipe for problems
15-12-2005 Statement of Communities and Organizations Confronting Mining Exploitation in El Salvador: Social Or
10-12-2005 1 Siam City Cement is a subsidiary of Holcim, the Swiss multinational cement firm.
10-12-2005 The Scheme of Plunder
10-12-2005 In 2004 a detailed report on the corporate crimes of Eternit was delivered at a conference organised
10-12-2005 The Scheme of Plunder
10-12-2005 1 According to Eternit, medical care is costing the company US$270 per person per month.
10-12-2005 VICTORY FOR BRAZIL'S ASBESTOS VICTIMS
15-11-2005 Chalco seeks NDRC approval to develop Guinean bauxite mine
15-09-2005 Spending on Environment Yields Big Returns - Report
15-09-2005 On precisely the same day both the World Bank and the United Nations Environment Programme have come
15-09-2005 Resource Depletion Damages Third World - World Bank
21-07-2005 Illegal Miners Threaten Brazil Indians
21-07-2005 Mineros amenazan reserva de indígenas Yanomami en Brasil
21-07-2005 Illegal Miners Threaten Brazil Indians
28-06-2005 JAIL TIME FOR ETERNIT EXECUTIVES
27-06-2005 Reading between the pipelines
27-05-2005 London Calling - May 29 2005
15-05-2005 MMAC urges domestic steelmakers to further develop overseas mines
06-04-2005 China Tries to Stem Flow of Coal Mine Disasters
31-03-2005 China Says Environment Spending Falls Short
10-02-2005 Orchid to buy copper giant
07-02-2005 Chinese Coal Mining Update
31-01-2005 China Coal Crunch Expected to Worsen
31-01-2005 Investors drawn to China despite risks
27-01-2005 China Using Environment Rules To Help Cool Economy
27-01-2005 China Hikes Penalties on Illegal Coal Mining
27-01-2005 Canada Worried by China Buying its Resources
26-01-2005 The impact of Mining in Latin America
26-01-2005 Ramu Project Nudged
26-01-2005 Latinamerica Press has published a special online edition, containing articles, reports and analyse
20-01-2005 China's Go West Campaign and Globalisation: Tibet's mines up for sale in the international market
13-01-2005 Mining a magnet for China's overseas investment
13-01-2005 China contradictions
13-01-2005 China contradictions
07-01-2005 Half of China's overseas investment falls in Latin America
26-11-2004 Minmetals meets Noranda
22-09-2004 Further asbestos updates
22-09-2004 Further Asbestos Updates
10-09-2004 Cyanide cemetery found in Amapá, Brazil
10-09-2004 Cyanide cemetery found in Amapá, Brazil
28-08-2004 Why the World Bank snubbed the EIR
28-08-2004 Why the World Bank snubbed the EIR - Special Report
19-08-2004 Brazilian Miners Wait for Payday After Diet of Bitterness
01-07-2004 Amazonia countries to have plan to combat mercury use
15-06-2004 ALCOA Pushes for Massive Amazonia Exploitation
03-06-2004 Recent expansions in global aluminium
02-06-2004 London Calling - June 2 2004
02-06-2004 London Calling! June 2 2004
08-04-2004 Gold is not enough - the story of gold rushes
22-03-2004 For All the TNCs in China - A London Calling special - March 22 2004
22-03-2004 For All the TNCs in China
25-02-2004 Action Alert: Stop Intimidation of Brazilian Labour Inspector Fernanda Giannasi
25-02-2004 Action Alert: Stop Intimidation of Brazilian Labour Inspector Fernanda Giannasi
20-02-2004 Background information -
30-11-2003 London Calling - November 30 2003
30-11-2003 London Calling! November 30 2003
25-10-2003 BHP Billiton accused of green abuse
09-07-2003 Mining operations in Mazaruni indefensible
16-05-2003 1,000 babies contaminated by mercury in Para, Brazil
15-04-2003 Fighting For Asbestos Justice In Brazil - An Interview With Fernanda Giannasi
15-06-2002 PERU
15-09-2001 What has Bougainville to teach us?
23-05-2001 Protesta Mundial contra Inco
01-05-2001 Coal Mine Accidents Underreported to Protect Livelihoods
01-05-2001 CVRD suspends iron ore supply to clients due to environmental liabilities
01-05-2001 Three Bolivian Ministers Kidnapped By Townspeople
01-05-2001 Taking It to Drummond: Paramilitaries and Mining Companies in Colombia
23-04-2001 available in Spanish
23-04-2001 Mas información sobre Environmental Defence Canada:
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