London Mining Network
@ldnminingnetwork.bsky.social
London Mining Network is an alliance of human rights, environmental, and solidarity organisations. We work to support communities around the world who are harmed by mining companies based in or financed through London.
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📣 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.
pogustgoodhead.com/high-court-r...
The case is clear that BHP & Vale controlled the Samarco mine and the tailings dam was poorly managed.
pogustgoodhead.com/high-court-r...
High Court refuses BHP permission to appeal landmark Mariana liability judgment
High Court refuses BHP permission to appeal landmark Mariana liability judgment
pogustgoodhead.com
January 23, 2026 at 1:11 PM
📣 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.
pogustgoodhead.com/high-court-r...
The case is clear that BHP & Vale controlled the Samarco mine and the tailings dam was poorly managed.
pogustgoodhead.com/high-court-r...
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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
Oates shared mothers' stories and said the UK as legal authority at the time has a moral responsiblity as well as miner Anglo American
January 9, 2026 at 6:13 PM
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
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...
If you couldn't join us this evening, you'll be able to watch the recording here soon: londonminingnetwork.org/resisting-mi...
January 15, 2026 at 6:26 PM
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...
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...
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...
Join us online at 6pm - you don't need to have read the book to attend:
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
londonminingnetwork.org
January 15, 2026 at 5:07 PM
📚 Our first Resisting Mining Book Club of 2026 is starting soon! Register now to join us online at 6pm: londonminingnetwork.org/2026/01/resi...
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...
Join us online at 6pm - you don't need to have read the book to attend:
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
londonminingnetwork.org
January 14, 2026 at 4:16 PM
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...
Join us online at 6pm - you don't need to have read the book to attend:
londonminingnetwork.org/2026/01/resi...
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💥 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 ⬇️
January 12, 2026 at 3:27 PM
💥 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...
Join us online - register here:
londonminingnetwork.org/2026/01/resi...
January 12, 2026 at 1:01 PM
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...
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...
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...
January 7, 2026 at 6:27 PM
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...
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...
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/...
@jakesimms.bsky.social warns the strategy will bring death & destruction to mineral-rich countries, as communities demand a different approach: newint.org/mining/2025/...
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.
newint.org
December 19, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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/...
@jakesimms.bsky.social warns the strategy will bring death & destruction to mineral-rich countries, as communities demand a different approach: newint.org/mining/2025/...
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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.
📣Alongside 49 signatories worldwide, we condemn the attack on the life of Misael Socarrás Ipuana - a Wayúu Indigenous defender of the Arroyo Bruno in La Guajira, Colombia.
Read our statement:
londonminingnetwork.org/2025/12/inte...
@terrajusta.bsky.social
Read our statement:
londonminingnetwork.org/2025/12/inte...
@terrajusta.bsky.social
International statement in solidarity with Misael Socarrás Ipuana and defenders of land, the environment and human rights in La Guajira, Colombia - London Mining Network
London Mining Network - Holding the Mining Industry to Account
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December 18, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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.
📣Alongside 49 signatories worldwide, we condemn the attack on the life of Misael Socarrás Ipuana - a Wayúu Indigenous defender of the Arroyo Bruno in La Guajira, Colombia.
Read our statement:
londonminingnetwork.org/2025/12/inte...
@terrajusta.bsky.social
Read our statement:
londonminingnetwork.org/2025/12/inte...
@terrajusta.bsky.social
International statement in solidarity with Misael Socarrás Ipuana and defenders of land, the environment and human rights in La Guajira, Colombia - London Mining Network
London Mining Network - Holding the Mining Industry to Account
londonminingnetwork.org
December 18, 2025 at 5:12 PM
📣Alongside 49 signatories worldwide, we condemn the attack on the life of Misael Socarrás Ipuana - a Wayúu Indigenous defender of the Arroyo Bruno in La Guajira, Colombia.
Read our statement:
londonminingnetwork.org/2025/12/inte...
@terrajusta.bsky.social
Read our statement:
londonminingnetwork.org/2025/12/inte...
@terrajusta.bsky.social
Our Resisting Mining Book Club is in full swing with Megan Black 📚
If you couldn't join us this evening, you'll be able to find a full recording on our website soon...
londonminingnetwork.org/resisting-mi...
If you couldn't join us this evening, you'll be able to find a full recording on our website soon...
londonminingnetwork.org/resisting-mi...
December 17, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Our Resisting Mining Book Club is in full swing with Megan Black 📚
If you couldn't join us this evening, you'll be able to find a full recording on our website soon...
londonminingnetwork.org/resisting-mi...
If you couldn't join us this evening, you'll be able to find a full recording on our website soon...
londonminingnetwork.org/resisting-mi...
“The green transition is being used by the mining industry and by states in the Global North to push for huge unprecedented increases in mineral mining".
This is not inevitable. With communities in Chile & Peru we spoke to @theipaper.com about the need to reduce demand:
inews.co.uk/news/race-br...
This is not inevitable. With communities in Chile & Peru we spoke to @theipaper.com about the need to reduce demand:
inews.co.uk/news/race-br...
The race for Britain's EVs is poisoning water supplies - 6,000 miles away
Communities in Chile and Peru tell The i Paper that demand for critical minerals is damaging their environment
inews.co.uk
December 17, 2025 at 11:18 AM
“The green transition is being used by the mining industry and by states in the Global North to push for huge unprecedented increases in mineral mining".
This is not inevitable. With communities in Chile & Peru we spoke to @theipaper.com about the need to reduce demand:
inews.co.uk/news/race-br...
This is not inevitable. With communities in Chile & Peru we spoke to @theipaper.com about the need to reduce demand:
inews.co.uk/news/race-br...
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“Founded in 1917 with the backing of British and American financiers, Anglo built its global empire on the backs of black South African workers, who were denied wages, rights, and safety in pursuit of profits that shaped the modern economy of London”
mg.co.za/business/202...
mg.co.za/business/202...
December 8, 2025 at 12:21 PM
“Founded in 1917 with the backing of British and American financiers, Anglo built its global empire on the backs of black South African workers, who were denied wages, rights, and safety in pursuit of profits that shaped the modern economy of London”
mg.co.za/business/202...
mg.co.za/business/202...
Today Anglo American are holding a shareholder meeting where they will vote on the merger with Teck Resources, which would see their HQ shift to Canada.
We’ll be at the meeting to raise our concerns about this move enabling Anglo to evade accountability for the harms of its mining operations.
We’ll be at the meeting to raise our concerns about this move enabling Anglo to evade accountability for the harms of its mining operations.
December 9, 2025 at 9:25 AM
Today Anglo American are holding a shareholder meeting where they will vote on the merger with Teck Resources, which would see their HQ shift to Canada.
We’ll be at the meeting to raise our concerns about this move enabling Anglo to evade accountability for the harms of its mining operations.
We’ll be at the meeting to raise our concerns about this move enabling Anglo to evade accountability for the harms of its mining operations.
Anglo American must be held accountable for 100 years of harm in South Africa. The company’s disinvestment from the country and proposed merger with Teck Resources (which will be voted on tomorrow) put this in serious jeopardy.
Full solidarity with South Africans fighting for reparations & redress.
Full solidarity with South Africans fighting for reparations & redress.
December 8, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Anglo American must be held accountable for 100 years of harm in South Africa. The company’s disinvestment from the country and proposed merger with Teck Resources (which will be voted on tomorrow) put this in serious jeopardy.
Full solidarity with South Africans fighting for reparations & redress.
Full solidarity with South Africans fighting for reparations & redress.
Contamination, cancer and criminalisation are the price communities are forced to pay as mining companies profit.
Great write up of the issues raised by Peruvian land defenders at our cartographies of extraction event this week:
newint.org/mining/2025/...
Great write up of the issues raised by Peruvian land defenders at our cartographies of extraction event this week:
newint.org/mining/2025/...
‘A monster that is swallowing us up’: Mining threatens Peruvian communities
Trade in copper and zinc is set to soar as countries electrify. But human rights defenders are raising the alarm and revealing a darker side of the story. Vanessa Baird reports.
newint.org
December 5, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Contamination, cancer and criminalisation are the price communities are forced to pay as mining companies profit.
Great write up of the issues raised by Peruvian land defenders at our cartographies of extraction event this week:
newint.org/mining/2025/...
Great write up of the issues raised by Peruvian land defenders at our cartographies of extraction event this week:
newint.org/mining/2025/...
On Monday, we heard powerful testimony from Jaime Borda, Estela Rojas, Lucio Flores & Beatriz Cortez on the immense damage being done to their communities as a result of mining in Peru.
The event conveyed the urgency of resistance to extractivism, to defend the life & health of people & our planet.
The event conveyed the urgency of resistance to extractivism, to defend the life & health of people & our planet.
December 4, 2025 at 11:23 AM
On Monday, we heard powerful testimony from Jaime Borda, Estela Rojas, Lucio Flores & Beatriz Cortez on the immense damage being done to their communities as a result of mining in Peru.
The event conveyed the urgency of resistance to extractivism, to defend the life & health of people & our planet.
The event conveyed the urgency of resistance to extractivism, to defend the life & health of people & our planet.
⏰ Our virtual photo exhibition spotlighting the aftermath of the collapse of the Fundão tailings dam in Mariana, Brazil, closes on 8 December.
Take a moment to explore portraits and landscapes marked by destruction which articulate a refusal to be forgotten:
londonminingnetwork.org/2025/11/phot...
Take a moment to explore portraits and landscapes marked by destruction which articulate a refusal to be forgotten:
londonminingnetwork.org/2025/11/phot...
Photo exhibition: 10 Years of Brazil’s Worst Environmental Crime - London Mining Network
London Mining Network - Holding the Mining Industry to Account
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December 3, 2025 at 2:54 PM
⏰ Our virtual photo exhibition spotlighting the aftermath of the collapse of the Fundão tailings dam in Mariana, Brazil, closes on 8 December.
Take a moment to explore portraits and landscapes marked by destruction which articulate a refusal to be forgotten:
londonminingnetwork.org/2025/11/phot...
Take a moment to explore portraits and landscapes marked by destruction which articulate a refusal to be forgotten:
londonminingnetwork.org/2025/11/phot...
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Worldwide, women face - and resist - the gendered impacts of mining
Join us on Tuesday (12:00 GMT; 14:00 SAST), ahead of Anglo American shareholders voting on a proposed merger, to hear from activists and communities about the company's impacts on women
Register now us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Join us on Tuesday (12:00 GMT; 14:00 SAST), ahead of Anglo American shareholders voting on a proposed merger, to hear from activists and communities about the company's impacts on women
Register now us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
December 3, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Worldwide, women face - and resist - the gendered impacts of mining
Join us on Tuesday (12:00 GMT; 14:00 SAST), ahead of Anglo American shareholders voting on a proposed merger, to hear from activists and communities about the company's impacts on women
Register now us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Join us on Tuesday (12:00 GMT; 14:00 SAST), ahead of Anglo American shareholders voting on a proposed merger, to hear from activists and communities about the company's impacts on women
Register now us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
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ACTSA and @ldnminingnetwork.bsky.social express our support for MACUA's petition to the South African parliament about Anglo American exiting South Africa
The mining giant's conduct undermines national economic sovereignty & community well-being. It must be held to account now #NoExitWithoutJustice
The mining giant's conduct undermines national economic sovereignty & community well-being. It must be held to account now #NoExitWithoutJustice
MACUA submit parliamentary petition calling for corporate accountability as Anglo American exits South Africa - ACTSA
Action for Southern Africa (ACTSA) and London Mining Network stand in solidarity with MACUA and partners in South Africa as they submit a petition to the South Africa parliament about Anglo American's upcoming merger as part of the campaign 'No Exit Without Justice'.
actsa.org
December 1, 2025 at 3:51 PM
ACTSA and @ldnminingnetwork.bsky.social express our support for MACUA's petition to the South African parliament about Anglo American exiting South Africa
The mining giant's conduct undermines national economic sovereignty & community well-being. It must be held to account now #NoExitWithoutJustice
The mining giant's conduct undermines national economic sovereignty & community well-being. It must be held to account now #NoExitWithoutJustice
Cartographies of extraction and waste in the energy transition exhibition is open! Join us to hear from Peruvian land defenders speaking soon: londonminingnetwork.org/2025/11/cart...
December 1, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Cartographies of extraction and waste in the energy transition exhibition is open! Join us to hear from Peruvian land defenders speaking soon: londonminingnetwork.org/2025/11/cart...
Tonight at 6pm! Peruvian activists visit London to raise the alarm on the political, criminal, human rights and environmental crisis in their country – and the part that UK mining interests and consumers have to play.
Join us to hear their perspectives: londonminingnetwork.org/2025/11/cart...
Join us to hear their perspectives: londonminingnetwork.org/2025/11/cart...
December 1, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Tonight at 6pm! Peruvian activists visit London to raise the alarm on the political, criminal, human rights and environmental crisis in their country – and the part that UK mining interests and consumers have to play.
Join us to hear their perspectives: londonminingnetwork.org/2025/11/cart...
Join us to hear their perspectives: londonminingnetwork.org/2025/11/cart...
Coming up on Monday! Join us at UCL to hear Peruvian land defenders share their experience of human rights and environmental harms resulting from mining operations, including those carried out by UK-based companies.
Free to attend - register here: londonminingnetwork.org/2025/11/cart...
Free to attend - register here: londonminingnetwork.org/2025/11/cart...
November 29, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Coming up on Monday! Join us at UCL to hear Peruvian land defenders share their experience of human rights and environmental harms resulting from mining operations, including those carried out by UK-based companies.
Free to attend - register here: londonminingnetwork.org/2025/11/cart...
Free to attend - register here: londonminingnetwork.org/2025/11/cart...
Communities impacted by mining in Indonesia, Chile, South Africa, Peru and the North of Ireland condemn the UK's new #CriticalMineralsStrategy warning it will “fuel social and environmental injustices across global supply chains”.
Read their perspectives: londonminingnetwork.org/mining-affec...
Read their perspectives: londonminingnetwork.org/mining-affec...
November 28, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Communities impacted by mining in Indonesia, Chile, South Africa, Peru and the North of Ireland condemn the UK's new #CriticalMineralsStrategy warning it will “fuel social and environmental injustices across global supply chains”.
Read their perspectives: londonminingnetwork.org/mining-affec...
Read their perspectives: londonminingnetwork.org/mining-affec...