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14 Steps to Sustainability
Krista Dahlberg, EARTHWORKS, 7/1/1999
Placer Dome Inc.
Sustainability Grade: Incomplete
An analysis of Placer Dome's sustainability policy and its effects on the ground.
A Bibliography of Mining Issue Resources
Global Mining Campaign, 8/15/2001
An annotated bibliography of mining issue resources
Acid Mine Drainage
Environmental Mining Council of British Columbia BC Wild, 1/1/2000
Mining and Water Pollution Issues in British Columbia
Acid Mine Drainage (AMD) is the biggest environmental threat from mining in British Columbia. Water resources are particularly affected. This report introduces issues, profiles key sites, and identifies outstanding concerns.
Anticipating Surprise: Assessing Risk
Alburbnus Maior, 10/1/2004
Making sense of Gabriel's intentions
Report highlighting the speculative and unsustained nature of the Gabriel Resources Rosia Montana mine proposal aiming to send a strong and serious warning signal to investors.
Asia Pacific Mining Skill Share
Mineral Policy Institute, 4/1/1998
This report outlines the purpose, strategies and results of the Asia Pacific Mining Skill Share held in the Philippines in April, 1998.
At What Price?
Images Asia Environment Desk and Pan Kachin Development Society, 11/1/2004
Gold Mining in Kachin State, Burma
This publication explores current gold mining practices in Burma. It aims to encourage wider attention to environmentally harmful and unsustainable resource extraction in Burma and to provide a background document for campaigns on behalf of the local people and the environment.
BLM Needs to Better Manage Financial Assurances to Guarantee Coverage of Reclamation Costs
U.S. Government Accountability Office, 7/25/2005
Report to the Ranking Minority member, Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, U.S. Senate
GAO recommends that BLM strengthen its management of financial assurances by requiring
its state office directors to develop an action plan for ensuring operators have adequate financial assurances and improving the
reliability and sufficiency of LR2000. Interior did not concur with the recommendations; GAO
believes they are needed to ensure adequate financial assurances.
Cyanide in Mining
Robert Moran, Ph.D., 11/4/2004
Some Observations of the Toxicity and Analysis of Mining-related Waters
The use of cyanide compounds in mining is frequently a controversial issue. Environmental groups often focus on the acutely toxic properties of many cyanide compounds to humans. While it is reasonable to be concerned about the acute poisoning of humans and other organisms from mining related accidents, the more common environmental problems are likely to result from the chronic contamination of surface and ground waters by lower concentrations of cyanides and related breakdown compounds.
Decoding Cyanide
Robert Moran, 2/22/2002
An Assessment of Gaps in Cyanide Regulation at Mines
The recent history of cyanide spills is fostering growing public concern about the potential for more spills and accidents, leading to massive water pollution problems. In response, a number of jurisdictions have banned dangerous mining practices and others are seeking to implement similar bans.
Digging for Survival: The Child Miners
International Labor Organization, 6/12/2005
Released to coincide with the World Day Against Child Labor, this 16 page report defines the problem, offers case studies, and recommendations for reform.
Digging to Development?
Thomas Michael Power, Oxfam America, 9/1/2002
A Historical Look at Mining and Economic Development
This report finds that mining was actually much less important in the economic development of rich countries than the World Bank claims, and argues that these countries should not be used as models for developing countries today.
Dirty Metals
6/1/2004
Mining, Communities and the Environment
This report shows the prevalence of metal in the consumer economy, and its impacts on communities and the environment.
EPA Should Do More to Ensure That Liable Parties Meet Their Cleanup Obligations
General Accountability Office, 8/17/2005
EPA could better ensure that bankrupt
and other financially distressed businesses meet their cleanup obligations by
making greater use of existing authorities.
Evaluating Mining and its Effects on Sustainability
Tom Green, 7/28/2001
The case of the Tulsequah Chief Mine
This report develops a model for assessing the compatibility of proposed mines with the requirements of sustainability. The model is then applied to the Tulsequah Chief Mine reopening project proposed by Redcorp Ventures Ltd.
Excerpt from A Proposed Strategy for Addressing the Impacts of Mining on Biodiversity in British Columbia and Yukon
Wendy Francis, 5/1/2001
The overall document encompassed
50 pages of analysis and recommendations on a range of issues and responses including
mineral tenure, protected areas, regulation and subsidies. The following section focuses
on some key consideration of markets campaigns and investment actions.
Extractive Sectors and the Poor
Michael Ross, 10/1/2001
An Oxfam America Report
Developing countries that rely heavily on oil or mineral exports suffer higher rates of poverty and child mortality, and spend more on their militaries than similar countries with more diverse economies, according to a study released by Oxfam America.
Fact Sheet: Stock Raising Homestead Act
Roger Featherstone, 2/2/2006
While the Stock Raising Homestead Act privatizes land for livestock grazing, the federal government retains the mineral rights and these private lands remain open to mineral entry.
Ha tlatgi ha kustiyi
Taku River Tlingit First Nation, 5/19/2000
Protecting the Taku Tlingit Land-based Way of Life
Comments on Route Alternatives: Tulsequah Chief Mine Access Road SUP Application
Hardrock Mining: Risks to Community Health
Aimee Boulanger, 9/1/2004
This report addresses the gap in scientific study and public information regarding risks to people living near modern mines.
Hardrock Mining: State Regulation
Congressional Research Service, 6/29/2005
A discussion of U.S. state regulations that attempt to fill the void left by the General Mining Law of 1872
Is Mining Sustainable?
Stephen D'Esposito, EARTHWORKS, 7/29/2000
The Corporate Ethics Monitor
This report addresses whether mining can be described as sustainable since it is an industry whose core business depends on the depletion of raw natural resources.
Legal Remedies for the Resource Curse
Justice Initiative, 9/6/2005
A Digest of Experience in Using Law to Combat Natural Resource Corruption
A report assessing the availability of legal remedies for addressing corrupt practices in the natural resource industries. Legal Remedies for the Resource Curse is a digest of practical experience in using law to combat corruption across jurisdictions.
Looking Beneath the Surface
Mark Winfield, Environmental Mining Council of British Columbia, 10/1/2002
An Assessment of the Value of Public Support for the Metal Mining Industry in Canada
An in depth look at mining in Canada and the role of the federal government in mining development.
Mercury Pollution in Northeast Nevada Air
Justin Hayes Idaho Conservation League, 10/6/2005
A Screening Level Survey of the Potential Impacts of Gold Processing Facilities on Air Quality
Mining in Developing Countries
Subc. on Human Rights and Int'l Development, 6/23/2005
Corporate Social Responsibility
Mining Ombudsman Annual Report 2004
Oxfam Community Aid Abroad, 8/1/2004
In the past few decades, the Australian mining industry has increased its activity in economically developing countries in
the Asia-Pacific, Africa and the Americas. Oxfam Community Aid Abroad examines how this has impacted poor and vulnerable communities that they have worked with fr over 50 years.
Mining Ombudsman Case Report: Tolukuma, Papua New Guinea
Ingrid Macdonald, 8/1/2004
Tolukuma Gold Mine
The Tolukuma case report investigates community complaints with the Tolukuma Gold Mine, located in the remote Goilala District, Central Province, Papua New Guinea.
Mining Ombudsman Case Report: Vatukoula Gold Mine
Ingrid Macdonald, 7/1/2004
The Vatukoula case report details community complaints about the social and environmental impacts of the Vatukoula Gold Mine in Fiji, including a 13-year old industrial dispute at the mine, meagre wages and poor working conditions, sub-standard housing and sanitation and polluted air and water as a result of mine waste.
New Country, Same Story
Robert Moran, Ph.D., 2/1/2004
Review of the Glamis Gold Marlin Project EIA, Guatemala
A brief, technical review of the Environmental Impact Assessment for the Marlin project. In addition, the report discusses aspects of the public mining-environmental review process in Guatemala, and its relationships to oversight by the Guatemalan government and the International Finance Corporation (IFC).
Newmont
Project Underground, 12/30/2002
The Gold Company
This report details the social and environmental impacts of Newmont's operations in Indonesia, Peru, Nevada, Ghana and Bolivia that were omitted from Newmont's 2002 Annual Report.
Nuevo Pais, la Misma Historia
Robert Moran, Ph.D., 4/12/2005
Revision del EIA del Proyecto Glamis Gold Marlin Guatemala
A brief, techincal review in Spanish of the Environmental Impact Assessment for the Marlin project. In addition, the report discusses aspects of the public mining-environmental review process in Guatemala, and its relationships to oversight by the Guatemalan government and the International Finance Corporation (IFC).
Paying for Protection
Global Witness, 7/25/2005
The Freeport mine and the Indonesian security forces
Paying for Protection reveals that prior to April 2003, large sums appear to have gone directly to individual military and police officers, not to the Indonesian government. Most troubling, payments totalling US$247,705 appear to have gone to General Mahidin Simbolon, a controversial figure who held a senior position in the Indonesian military command covering East Timor in 1999, where soldiers and militiamen committed crimes against humanity that included at least 1,200 murders.
Prior Informed Consent and Mining
Environmental Law Institute, 1/1/2004
Promoting Sustainable Development of Local Communities
This report prepared by the Environmental Law Institute discusses the concept of prior informed consent as the right of a community to be informed about mining operations on a full and timely basis and to approve an operation prior to commencement.
Public Interest Perspectives on Canadian Environmental Mining Issues
Alan Young, 7/1/1997
A Discussion Paper
Prepared for the International Development Research Council (IDRC), this paper outlines what's happening in Canada's mining sector from a public interest perspective.
Putting a Price on Pollution
Jim Kuipers, Center for Science in Public Participation, 3/1/2003
Financial Assurance for Mine Reclamation and Closure
Report discussing clean-up costs for hardrock mining sites and the current lack of enforcement of regulators to protect communities, taxpayers and valuable resources.
Report of the Conference on Mining Development and Social Conflicts in Africa
William Appiah, 11/15/1999
Accra,Ghana
The three-day meeting was organized by Third World Network, Africa Secretariat (TWNAf)
with the support of Inter-Church Action of Canada.
Risky Business
Project Underground, 1/1/1998
The Grasberg Gold Mine
An independent annual report explaining what the problems surrounding Grasberg are, and some of the steps that might be taken to improve the situation at this,the world's largest open-cut gold and copper mine in the easternmost province of Indonesia.
Small Scale Gold Mining in Cambodia
Sieng Sotham, Oxfam America, 7/1/2004
A Situation Assessment
Using four gold deposit case studies, illustrates the issues involving the use of toxic chemicals, the socio-economic factors and the lack of effective legislation.
Special Report: Golden Gamble in Grass Valley
Doug Mattson, 8/17/2005
In this five-part series, YubaNet takes an in-depth look at Emgold Mining Corporation's complex and controversial proposal for the Idaho-Maryland gold mine in Grass Valley, California.
State of the World 2003
Payal Sampat, Worldwatch Institute, 1/9/2003
Chapter 6. Scrapping Mining Dependence
The world doesn't need to obtain minerals in a way that uses so much energy and generates so much pollution. Metals, for instance, are eminently recyclable. Recycling's potential is poorly realized, however, mainly because of government policies that heavily favor extraction.
Submarine Tailings Disposal Toolkit
Catherine Coumans, MiningWatch Canada, Project Underground, 5/20/2004
This package brings together case studies and background information on the ocean dumping of mine wastes.
Submarine Tailings Disposal is the practice of dumping mine tailings into the sea through a submerged pipe. It is a serious and growing threat to ocean ecosystems especially in the Pacific.
Superfund and Mining Megasites
Committee on Superfund Site Assessment and Remediation in the Coeur d' Alene River Basin, NRC, 8/16/2005
Lessons from the Coeur d'Alene River Basin
The scientific and technical practices used by EPA to make decisions about human health risks at the Coeur d'Alene River Basin Superfund site are generally sound; however, there are substantial concerns regarding environmental protection decisions, particularly dealing with the effectiveness of long-term plans.
The 3rd International Women and Mining Conference
mines, minerals & PEOPLE, 10/1/2004
Materials from the conference held October 1-9 in Visakhapatnam, India.
Organized by mines, minerals & PEOPLE, India, the 3rd International Women and Mining Conference occurred October 1-9 in in Visakhapatnam, India. Participants came from 21 countries of Africa, North and South America, Europe, the Pacific, and Asia, including women from all regions of India.
The Curse of Gold
Human Rights Watch, 6/1/2005
Gold Fuels Massive Human Rights Atrocities in the Democratic Republic of Congo
The 159-page report, The Curse of Gold, documents how local armed groups fighting for the control of gold mines and trading routes have committed war crimes and crimes against humanity using the profits from gold to fund their activities and buy weapons. The report provides details of how a leading gold mining company, AngloGold Ashanti, part of the international mining conglomerate Anglo American, developed links with one murderous armed group, the Nationalist and Integrationist Front (FNI), helping them to access the gold-rich mining site around the town of Mongbwalu in the northeastern Ituri district.
The Global Metals and Mining Sector
Innovest Strategic Value Advisors, 8/1/2001
This report analyzed the performance of 21 of the world's leading metals and mining companies in some of the key areas where environmental and social sustainability issues influence shareholder value.
The Risks We Run
Roger Moody, 7/12/2005
Mining, Communities and Political Risk Insurance
The Size and Structure of Metals Markets:
Peter Kettle CRU Analysis/World Gold Council, 8/4/2005
How Gold Compares with other Non-Ferrous Metals
In the fourth of the World Gold Council's series of papers focusing on commodities as an asset class, Peter Kettle of CRU Analysis examines the size and liquidity of the different metals markets.
Tunnel Vision
Ingrid Macdonald and Clare Rowland, 11/1/2002
Women, Mining and Communities
Recognising the need to focus specifically on women's experiences with mining, in June 2002, Oxfam Community Aid Abroad convened the 'Tunnel Vision: Women, Mining and Communities' forum in Melbourne, Australia. The forum and the resulting anthology of papers complied in the Tunnel Vision: Women, Mining and Communities report illustrates how women have been excluded from the economic benefits of mining, and have borne the burden of many of its negative social and environmental impacts.
Undermining Biodiversity
Environmental Mining Council of British Columbia, 1/1/2004
The environmental consequences of improperly located and poorly operated mines in
Canada and the United States are a liability and spoil the land.
Under-Mining Peace
Global Witness, 6/30/2005
Tin - the Explosive Trade in Cassiterite in Eastern DRC
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