by Lydia | Mar 13, 2019 | Events
“We collected the women and when we met near the mountain, we were too late. We heard the bullets, and then the ambulances. Thirty-four mine workers were shot dead.” Thumeka Magwangqana, Marikana community leader On August 16 2012, over 100 workers on...
by Lydia | Feb 19, 2019 | Video
BHP, the London-listed mining giant, released its half-year profit earnings this morning, on 19th February. Their net profit for June-December 2018 increased to $3.8 billion, up 90 percent from the last half of 2017. But it comes at a cost: clean water for...
by Lydia | Feb 1, 2019 | Actions
In sadness and rage, please join us outside the Embassy of Brazil in solidarity with the communities affected by Brazil’s Brumadinho tailings dam disaster on Wednesday 6th February. On Friday January 25th, in the state of Minas Gerais, 12 million cubic metres of...
by Lydia | Jan 31, 2019 | Monthly newsletter
Dear friends, Last Friday there was a catastrophic tailings dam burst at Brumadinho in Brazil, at an iron ore mine run by Brazilian multinational Vale. Although the environmental damage done seems to be much less than when the Fundao tailings dam burst in November...
by Lydia | Jan 26, 2019 | News
The catastrophic spill from Brazilian company Vale’s Brumadinho mining waste dam in Minas Gerais state is the second massive waste dam collapse in Brazil in recent years. The last one was at Mariana, in the same state, in November 2015, at the Samarco iron ore mine...
by Lydia | Jan 18, 2019 | Actions
On Wednesday, 16 January 2019, 50 people from the community of Roche staged a non-violent occupation of part of the vast Cerrejon coal mine – owned by London-listed multinationals Anglo American, BHP and Glencore – to demand respect for their rights as people of...
by Lydia | Dec 19, 2018 | Monthly newsletter
Dear friends, Supporting communities We’ve had another busy year at London Mining Network. Between us all, we’ve welcomed representatives of mining-affected communities in Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Finland, Indonesia, Peru, the Philippines, South Africa,...
by Lydia | Nov 21, 2018 | Monthly newsletter
Dear friends, We have had a very busy couple of months at London Mining Network, and many of our friends have been busy too, as you’ll see below. This mailout includes news of our speaker tour around the Annual General Meeting of BHP in London last month,...
by Lydia | Oct 18, 2018 | News, Press Releases
Demonstration outside BHP mining company’s AGM, followed by record number of questions asked by human rights defenders and other shareholders Around 30 protesters protested BHP’s annual general meeting on Thursday 17 October, braving the rain with chants,...
by Lydia | Oct 16, 2018 | Press Releases
For immediate release – 16/10/18 London, England Controversial Rio Tinto and BHP Resolution Copper mine project was proposed 15 years ago but is yet to get off the ground. Released today to coincide with BHP’s annual general meeting, the report, Potential Impact of...
