La quasi totalité du gotha minier mondial était-là les 6-7-8-9 février 2012. Dans ce Davos minier, difficile d’imaginer que les décideurs réunis au Cap, comme chaque année depuis 18 ans, étaient en guerre. Une guerre économique feutrée. Car au-delà des politesses et des déclarations, Mining Indaba 2012 aura été un vrai bal de stratèges. Retour [...]

Insisting questioning of local impacts and benefits have made the Mining & Metals industry’s ethical reputation suffer last year, while Alcoa and Rio Tinto continued progressing, indicates a report published today by Geneva-based research firm Covalence – Covalence Mining & Metal Industry Report 2008. It has been a difficult year for the Mining & Metal [...]

A SERIES of lawsuits is looming against Swiss mining giant Xstrata after blood tests around its Mount Isa operations revealed widespread lead poisoning among the children of the central Queensland town. The legal action over the alleged metal contamination in the Queensland mining capital comes ahead of the release next month of a Queensland Health [...]

Environment and employment are currently the major concerns regarding the Mining & Metals industry’s corporate social responsibility (CSR) record, states a report released today by Geneva-based reputation research firm Covalence, Covalence Mining & Metals Industry Report 2007. For 2006 to 2007, the top positive and negative issues both have to do with environmental collaboration (support [...]

Mining giant Xstrata has outlined plans to significantly cut greenhouse gas emissions from its coal mines within three years. The company is the world’s largest thermal coal producer and has several mines in the New South Wales Hunter Valley and Queensland. Xstrata’s newly released 2006 sustainability report says it is establishing intensity measures for greenhouse [...]

Dear Covalence team, I am part of a Swiss-based working group that gathers and spreads information about various problems that challenge the civil population in Colombia. At the moment, I am working on a case involving a the largest open-pit coal mine in the world, Carbones del Cerrejón, situated in the North of Colombia, in [...]