London Mining Network

Unjust Energy Transition? Challenging the Critical Mineral Rush - London Mining Network Unjust Energy Transition? Challenging the Critical Mineral Rush is an interactive workshop exposing the realities of the mining industry.

The global rush for “critical minerals” is being sold as an essential step towards a greener future. But who really benefits from this mineral boom and who bears the cost?

Come to our workshop in London on 3 March to explore the realities of mining worldwide:
londonminingnetwork.org/2026/02/unju...

‘The source of all life is here’: plan to mine lithium in Chilean salt flat sparks fears of water scarcity The Colla Indigenous people claim Rio Tinto’s plans to extract the key mineral will harm fragile ecosystems and livelihoods

“We won’t benefit from this; we don’t use expensive electric vehicles, it’s not going to improve our quality of life, and we’ll just be left with the rubbish.”

Rio Tinto's lithium mining plans threaten Indigenous communities' water security in Chile:

Who's profiting from plunder in West Papua? Indonesia is currently overseeing the world’s biggest ever deforestation project in West Papua, while new research shows the extent of the UK’s involvement in an occupation that has been described...

"...the mountain on which the mine is located is a sacred place. But every day an estimated 300,000 tons of toxic tailings, largely untreated, are deposited straight into the Ajkwa River."

@newint.bsky.social explore ecological and cultural devastation in West Papua:

UN Committee on Racial Discrimination (CERD) Raises Concerns Over Nickel Mining Threats to the O’Hongana Manyawa in Voluntary Isolation Forest Peoples Programme welcomes a formal letter issued by the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) dated 19 January 2026 under i...

UN Committee on Racial Discrimination has raised concerns over nickel mining threats to the O’Hongana Manyawa Indigenous Peoples in Halmahera, North Maluku, Indonesia.

With @forestpeoplesp.bsky.social we welcome the UN's attention to these threats:

Our next Resisting Mining Book Club is coming up on 11 March, and it's a hybrid event!

Join us in person or online to discuss "Extraction: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism" with @triofrancos.bsky.social.

Find all the details and register here:
londonminingnetwork.org/2026/01/resi...

Resisting Mining Book Club: "Extraction: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism" with Thea Riofrancos - London Mining Network We welcome Thea Riofrancos to the Resisting Mining Book Club as we discuss Extraction: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism

100%! We're exploring the impact of lithium mining in our book club next month: londonminingnetwork.org/2026/01/resi...

The report includes a chapter where we detail Anglo American's responsibility for severe environmental and social rupture in Chile, Peru and Colombia, including melting glaciers, polluted groundwater, diverted rivers and displaced communities.

New report: Anglo American's Accountability Deficit - ACTSA Anglo American Accountability Deficit: The devastating 100 year legacy of extraction by South Africa’s largest mining company: A call for corporate accountability across Southern Africa, Latin…

New report from @actsa-uk.bsky.social explores Anglo American's devastating 100-year legacy of extraction in South Africa and demands for accountability from communities affected by its mining operations around the world:
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Activists accuse Anglo of going AWOL But the company has dismissed the claim that it is leaving South Africa as disinformation

Powerful images of communities marching to Anglo American's HQ yesterday to demand #NoExitWithoutJustice from South Africa:
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We expressed our solidarity with these demands at MACUA's summit this week: Beyond Green Growth – Toward a People-Led Just Energy Transition.

Image of a mine ravaged landscape, greenery depleted, blends via a red filter into an image of a line of wind turbines in a mountainous landscape. Text reads: Unjust Energy Transition? Challenging the Critical Mineral Rush

Want to learn about how the concept of a just transition is being co-opted to justify more mining - and how to challenge these injustices?

Come to our workshop!
📆 3 March 6:30-8:30pm
📍 In person - details at the link 👇

Spaces are limited - register here: londonminingnetwork.org/2026/02/unju...

Resisting Mining Book Club: "Extraction: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism" with Thea Riofrancos - London Mining Network We welcome Thea Riofrancos to the Resisting Mining Book Club as we discuss Extraction: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism

Our next Resisting Mining Book Club is coming up on 11 March. We'll be joined by Thea Riofrancos to discuss Extraction: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism.

We're planning to make this a hybrid event - London location details coming soon!📍

Register now: londonminingnetwork.org/2026/01/resi...

Resisting Mining Book Club: “The Petro-State Masquerade” with Ryan Cecil Jobson For our first Resisting Mining Book Club of 2026 we welcomed Ryan Cecil Jobson to discuss his book, The Petro-State Masquerade: Oil, Sovereignty and Power in Trinidad…

Missed our book club with @ryanceciljobson.bsky.social?

📚 Watch the full recording here: vimeo.com/1154794909

Tune in for discussion on imperialist resource grabs in the Caribbean and what Trinidad & Tobago's history of workers' struggle can teach us about fighting for a just transition.

Read more commentary on the UK Critical Minerals Strategy and why communities say these partnerships will fuel social and environmental injustices across global supply chains: londonminingnetwork.org/mining-affec...

As Britain announces a new critical minerals deal with the Trump administration, the voices of communities whose lives are being drastically impacted by the mining industry must be heard.

📣Here's @nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social raising the concerns of mining affected communities in the House of Lords

Will Rio Tinto leave Madagascar a toxic legacy? Rio Tinto might be considering selling off its share of operations at a massive ilmenite mine in Madagascar this week. But will it walk away from its history of contaminations?

"The fear is that Rio Tinto will cut and run from Madagascar leaving a toxic legacy of water contamination, unsafe mine tailings, health issues, lost livelihoods and inadequate compensation."

As LMN member Yvonne Orengo writes, Rio Tinto must be held accountable:
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Deadline or Death Sentence — InSAF India

You can learn more about the militarisation, killings and displacement that Indigenous Adivasi communities are facing over their lands in the Bastar region of Chhattisgarh in this webinar series with @indinsaf.bsky.social: www.academicfreedomindia.com/deadline-or-...

UN Body Flags 'Unprecedented' Rights Violations Against Adivasis, Muslims and Forest Communities in India In communications sent to the Indian government on 19 January, the UN body warned that security, citizenship and conservation policies may be operating in racially discriminatory ways, raising concern...

UN letters to the Indian government raise severe concerns about "a pattern of excessive use of force, arbitrary detention, forced displacement, denial of consent over land and resources, and lack of effective remedies", targeting Adivasi communities among other groups:
thewire.in/rights/un-fl...

Fabricated Consent, Coercion and Resistance: Odisha’s Sijimali Echoes the Niyamgiri Conflict A proposed mine, leased to Vedanta Ltd., seeks to extract 9 million tonnes of bauxite annually over a 50-year period across 1,549 hectares, of which nearly half is forest land.

A proposed mine, leased to Vedanta Ltd., seeks to extract 9 million tonnes of bauxite annually over a 50-year period across 1,549 hectares, of which nearly half is forest land.

The project would generate approximately 18m tonnes of waste each year & worsen water scarcity.
thewire.in/rights/fabri...

UK finance fuels environmental destruction around the world. In the House of Lords @nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social spoke out about how private coal developer the Adani Group is causing devastation & displacement in India while backed by UK banks.
@cultureunstained.bsky.social @spotlightcorruption.org

A deeply moving story from @scroll.in about the violence linked to land dispossession in favour of mining in Chhattisgarh, India: scroll.in/article/1090...

Who stands to benefit now that villagers no longer have Maoist protection and are subject to persecution by security forces?

High Court refuses BHP permission to appeal landmark Mariana liability judgment High Court refuses BHP permission to appeal landmark Mariana liability judgment

📣 UK High Court refuses BHP permission to appeal landmark judgment which found it responsible for the catastrophic collapse of the Fundão tailings dam in Brazil.

The case is clear that BHP & Vale controlled the Samarco mine and the tailings dam was poorly managed.
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Yesterday, Lord Oates raised the lead pollution from colonial-era mining in Kabwe, Zambia, in the UK House of Lords with peers calling it a "horror" and a "shame"

Oates shared mothers' stories and said the UK as legal authority at the time has a moral responsiblity as well as miner Anglo American

Our Resisting Mining Book Club with Ryan Cecil Jobson is in full swing! We're discussing "The Petro-State Masquerade: Oil, Sovereignty and Power in Trinidad and Tobago".

If you couldn't join us this evening, you'll be able to watch the recording here soon: londonminingnetwork.org/resisting-mi...

📚 Our first Resisting Mining Book Club of 2026 is starting soon! Register now to join us online at 6pm: londonminingnetwork.org/2026/01/resi...

Resisting Mining Book Club: "The Petro-State Masquerade" with Ryan Cecil Jobson - London Mining Network We welcome Ryan Cecil Jobson to discuss his book, The Petro-State Masquerade: Oil, Sovereignty and Power in Trinidad and Tobago

Tomorrow! Join us at our Resisting Mining Book Club with Ryan Cecil Jobson where we'll be discussing "The Petro-State Masquerade: Oil, Sovereignty and Power in Trinidad and Tobago".

Join us online at 6pm - you don't need to have read the book to attend:
londonminingnetwork.org/2026/01/resi...

💥 Powerful intervention from @nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social in the Lords Chamber highlighting how the UK banking system is facilitating the environmental devastation and displacement being caused by the world’s largest private coal developer, the Adani Group ⬇️

This Thursday, we'll be welcoming Ryan Cecil Jobson to the Resisting Mining Book Club to discuss "The Petro-State Masquerade" - a study of the fraught relationship between fossil fuels & political power in Trinidad & Tobago.

Join us online - register here:
londonminingnetwork.org/2026/01/resi...

Get your reading resolutions off to a flying start with our first Resisting Mining Book Club of 2026! 📚

We’ll be joined by Ryan Cecil Jobson to discuss his book, “The Petro-State Masquerade: Oil, Sovereignty and Power in Trinidad and Tobago”.

Join us: londonminingnetwork.org/2026/01/resi...

Britain is banking on a deadly mining boom The government’s new critical minerals strategy will bring ‘death and destruction’ to mineral-rich countries around the world. Jake Simms calls for a different approach.

The UK’s new Critical Minerals Strategy outlines how the government will source the minerals needed to fuel its growth agenda.

@jakesimms.bsky.social warns the strategy will bring death & destruction to mineral-rich countries, as communities demand a different approach: newint.org/mining/2025/...

The Institute for Policy Studies - Global Economy Program joins with organizations from around the world to express deep concern and solidarity with Misael Socorrás Ipuana and all the Indigenous and environment defenders in La Guajira, Colombia fighting to protect the Bruno River.