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.
THE FRIEDA-RIVER COPPER GOLD PROJECT, PAPUA NEW GUINEA
As a part of a mega energy-infrastructure project, a large-scale open pit copper mine has been proposed by Pan Aust, a Chinese owned company listed in Australia, on a culturally and ecologically significant river region in Sepik in Papua New Guinea.
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.
CENTRAL AFRICAN COPPER BELT
Concerns have been raised by corporate watchdogs about the lack of regulation for Australian companies operating in Africa including the Central African Copper Belt
LAKE TORRENS, SOUTH AUSTRALIA
A large ephemeral salt lake in central South Australia, of significance to the local Aboriginal groups, is under threat from mining.