Half of survey respondents also say mining giant’s workplace culture has improved ‘a lot’ or ‘a little’. More than one-third of workers at Rio Tinto experienced bullying in the previous 12 months, a progress review has found, nearly three years after the mining giant pledged to tackle pervasive sexism and…
DEVELOPING STORYDEVELOPING STORY, Rescue operations involving volunteers under way in Stilfontein amid reports that hundreds are still trapped underground. Two men have been pulled out from an abandoned gold mine in South Africa after a court ordered the police to lift a blockade and allow the rescue of hundreds of…
Government initially closed a shaft to deprive undocumented miners it called ‘criminal’ of food, water and medicine. Dozens of local volunteers have stepped up to help rescue what could be thousands of miners feared trapped underground in an abandoned gold mine in the town of Stilfontein in South Africa. Local…
The dam collapse unleashed wave of tailings in disaster that killed 19 people, left hundreds homeless, flooded forests. Brazil has signed a 170 billion reais ($29.85bn) compensation agreement with miners BHP, Vale and Samarco for the Mariana dam collapse in 2015, one of the country’s worst environmental disasters. The agreement…
Victims of Brazil’s worst environmental disaster have turned to a United Kingdom court for compensation, almost nine years after tonnes of toxic mining waste poured into a major waterway, killing 19 people and devastating local communities. The class action lawsuit at the High Court of Justice in London on Monday…
As the war enters its 941st day, these are the main developments. Here is the situation on Monday, September 23, 2024. Fighting The number of people injured in a Russian air attack on Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-biggest city, rose to 21, including an eight-year-old child. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Russia…
Kwekwe, Zimbabwe – Dorothy Moyo says a prayer every time she walks, runs or drives around her neighbourhood in central Zimbabwe – afraid that the earth will give away from beneath her feet, dragging her underground. The 36-year-old’s fear is not uncommon among the hundreds of families living in the…
X-ray technology used to find the 2,492-carat stone in the African country’s Karowe Diamond Mine. A 2,492-carat diamond – the second largest in the world – has been discovered in Botswana, says the Canadian mining company that found the stone. The diamond was discovered in the Karowe Diamond Mine in…
With negotiations to adopt rules and regulations for commercial deep-sea mining in international waters resuming this week at the International Seabed Authority (ISA), African countries have an extremely important role to play in the future of this industry and the health of our ocean. ISA, as a UN-affiliated institution, was…
Nearly five years after the islanders of remote Bougainville voted decisively in a referendum for independence from Papua New Guinea (PNG), local frustrations are rising as the political process falters. More than 97 percent of voters in the autonomous island region of about 300,000 people, in eastern PNG, chose independence…
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