RIO TINTO, CIVIL WAR AND HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSES
The Panguna mine in Bougainville that operated from 1971 to 1989 left a decade of civil war in its entrails, environmental destruction and social upheaval.
OCEANAGOLD, PHILIPPINES
Australian-Canadian OceanaGold has received international attention for grave human rights and environmental concerns throughout the life its Dipidio copper-gold mine.
AUSTRALIAN MINING FOOTPRINT IN ECUADOR
Since 2016, around seven million hectares of land in Ecuador has been sold by the government, under zero public scrutiny, to international mining companies keen to take advantage of the country’s promise of untapped reserves of copper and other base metals.
SALAR DE ATACAMA, ANTOFAGATSA, CHILE
Neither proper environmental assessment nor Indigenous/Public consultation has ever been carried out for lithium extraction, and precautionary principle has not been respected.