MACUA submit parliamentary petition calling for corporate accountability as Anglo American exits South Africa
Mining Affected Communities United in Action (MACUA) this week submitted a petition to the South Africa Parliament on Mining Accountability, Capital Flight, and Community Abandonment. Anglo American recently sold all shares in Anglo American Platinum, which has been renamed Valterra Platinum, and are pursuing a takeover of Teck Resources which would see their headquarters shift […]
Peruvian activists to visit London and raise the alarm on the UK’s role in the growing crisis in their country
Peruvian activists visit London to raise the alarm on the growing political, criminal, human rights and environmental crisis in their country – and the part that UK mining interests and consumers have to play. Four leading activists from Peru will share their perspectives and lived experience of human rights and environmental harms resulting from mining […]
Communities impacted by British mining company operations in Indonesia, Chile, South Africa and Peru have condemned the UK Government’s new Critical Minerals Strategy, warning it will “fuel social and environmental injustices across global supply chains”. The strategy aims to ‘secure’ supplies of ‘critical minerals’ to meet British needs, anticipating that by 2035 “demand for copper […]
In a significant ruling at London’s High Courts, BHP has been found legally responsible for the catastrophic collapse of the Fundão tailings dam in Mariana, which took the lives of 20 people and left lasting environmental and emotional scars across Minas Gerais, Brazil. This ruling comes a week after the tenth anniversary of Brazil’s worst […]
Landscape Architecture, UCL77 Wicklow Street, London WC1X 9JY Join us to hear perspectives from Peruvian land defenders living near a copper mine and from members of the Red Muqui network. We are also presenting the exhibition – Cartographies of extraction and waste in the energy transition: Teaching strategies to support community resistance in Latin America. […]
On 5 November 2015, the Fundão tailings dam, operated by Samarco, a joint venture between Vale and BHP, burst in Mariana, Minas Gerais. More than 40 million cubic metres of toxic mining waste tore through communities, killing 20 people and contaminating the Rio Doce basin all the way to the Atlantic. It became Brazil’s worst […]
This blog is a collaboration between LMN and cosmopolíticas in Brazil. On 5 November 2015, the catastrophic failure of the Fundão dam operated by Samarco Mineração S.A. – a joint venture between BHP owning 50% and Vale S.A. 50% – unleashed around 45 million cubic metres of tailings into the Rio Doce basin. The disaster […]
The Transition Mineral Mining 50 identifies the top 50 largest, publicly traded transition mineral mining companies implicated in an active case on Environmental Justice Atlas. ‘Transition minerals’ are the minerals that are vital to the technology of low-carbon energy systems, particularly extracting, storing and transmitting renewable energy. They include: cobalt, lithium, nickel, copper, bauxite, gold, […]
Join us for the sixth session in the InSAF India and London Mining Network 12-part webinar series, Deadline or Death Sentence: State Violence and Indigenous (Adivasi) Peoples’ Resistance in India. Watch previous sessions here. Session 6 | Scripting State Violence and Criminalisation of Resistance in India Date and time: Tuesday 21 October 2025 at 2:30pm UTC (8pm […]
Critical Minerals, Empty Rhetoric: A Look at the UK’s Critical Minerals Strategy from the MODATIMA movement in Chile
As the UK government prepares to launch a new Critical Minerals Strategy, which will seek to secure supplies amidst a global mineral rush, communities on the frontlines of Britain’s mining ambitions speak out. Obtaining so-called critical minerals is increasingly considered of strategic importance for countries in the global North to meet their green transition and […]