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Jun 14, 2021 An Yanomami man stands near an illegal gold mine during Brazil’s environmental agency operation against illegal gold mining on indigenous land, …
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Dec 10, 2018 An epidemic of illegal artisanal mining across the Amazon rainforest has been revealed in an unprecedented new map, pinpointing 2,312 sites …
Oct 14, 2020 “Illegal mining is an issue in Nigeria, the foreigners hide under the artisanal miners to operate mining illegally; they give artisanal miners equipment and little money to mine for them.
May 18, 2021 When China's Zijin Mining (601899.SS) paid $1 billion to buy an extensive gold mine in the Colombian Andes in late 2019, security risks were a top concern, despite an operation by the military ...
Jul 19, 2021 Illegal gold miners threaten fragile way of life, deep in Amazon rainforest. By Gabriel Chaim, Isa Soares and Barbara Arvanitidis . Updated 9:48 AM ET, Mon July 19, 2021
Jun 28, 2019 Glencore: incidents and fatalities not linked to Kamoto Copper Company operations or activities in Kolwezi, DRC Posted on 28, June 2019 by EuropaWire PR Editors | This entry was posted in Commodities , Industrial , Metals and Minerals , News , Security & Safety , Society , Switzerland and tagged agriculture , Commodities , concessions , Congo ...
Jul 04, 2019 Reuters reported earlier today that security forces were removing illegal miners who had also taken steps to launch protest action outside the governor’s office in the city of Kolwezi before being dispersed by security forces.. Another civil society activist in Kolwezi, who asked not to be named, said the Kasulo neighbourhood next to the mine was under siege by the police and army and that ...
Jul 05, 2019 Forty-three illegal miners died after a landslide at Glencore’s Kamoto concession outside Kolwezi in Lualaba Province on 27 June. The disaster highlights the security and reputational risks of mining copper and cobalt in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).
Jun 28, 2019 Artisanal mining is common in DR Congo as people do it as a means to make a living. At least 36 people have been killed after a copper and cobalt mine collapsed in Lualaba province in …
Jul 04, 2019 Illegal mining is the result of a harsh economic divide across Africa, home to some of the world’s richest reserves of metals and minerals and some of the poorest people, who are willing to risk ...
Jun 28, 2019 Kamoto Copper Company has observed a growing presence of illegal artisanal miners throughout its industrial mining concessions in the Kolwezi area. This has led to daily intrusions onto its concession by on average 2,000 illegal artisanal miners per day.
KCC, a subsidiary of Glencore, has observed a growing presence of illegal miners throughout its industrial mining concessions in the Kolwezi area of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). This has led to daily intrusions onto its concession by on average 2,000 illegal miners per day. This has presented a significant risk to its employees, operating equipment and the illegal miners themselves.
Jul 01, 2019 An accident at a copper and cobalt mine owned by British-Swiss mining multinational Glencore in the Democratic Republic of the Congo killed 43 illegal miners on 27 June 2019. The miners died after two galleries overlooking extraction areas caved in at the mine, operated by Glencore subsidiary Kamoto Copper Company (KCC).
