Rhetoric or Reality?
Mining giant Anglo American professes to uphold high standards of corporate responsibility. But the new report, Anglo American’s Track Record: Rhetoric or Reality? shows otherwise.
Rhetoric or Reality? reviews Anglo’s track record regarding enviornmental protection, worker safety, community impacts, and public health problems at many of its major metal mining operations.
Welcome
The Pebble mine is a massive copper/gold mine proposed in southwest Alaska’s Bristol Bay - at the headwaters of the world’s largest remaining wild sockeye salmon fishery.
Keep an Eye on the Pebble Mine
With so much at stake, a mine proposal like this, and the companies behind it need close scrutiny.
January 22nd, 2009
On January 21, 2009 Mining Journal Weekly wrote a story on two mine workers disappearing at Anglo Platinum’s Rustenburg mine. Anglo’s initial search concentrated on above ground areas even though evidence pointed to the men being under ground. Angered over the disappearance, fellow mine workers marched to Anglo’s Rustenburg offices to demand answers.
- An estimated 17 000 mineworkers marched to the Rustenburg offices of Anglo Platinum’s (Angloplat’s) Rustenburg operations on Wednesday afternoon, to demand an investigation into the disappearance of two workers.
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