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Recent News Highlights
12 November 2007, Analisis
-Mining boom in Indonesia -- so near, yet so far. Source:
Reuters UK
11 November 2007, Pan
American Silver Has Third-Quarter Profit on Record Output.
Source: Bloomberg.com.
11 November 2007, BHP,
Rio mega merger good news for iron-ore price - KIO. Source:
Creamer Media´s Mining Weekly
11 November 2007, Diamond
Certification - New standards go into effect soon. Source:
Canadian Mining Journal
11 November 2007, Côte
d'Ivoire: Diamonds From Country Need Cleaning. Source:
allAfrica.com
22 August 2007, Xstrata
Copper eyeing $10 billion in expansion. Source: Reuters
UK
22 August 2007, BHP
Billiton says annual net profit up 28.4 per cent to record.
Source: Canadian Business Online.
21 August, Rio
Tinto Wins Review of Ruling on Papua New Guinea Claims.
Source: Bloomberg
21 August 2007, Several
China mines had suspended work ahead of flooding that trapped
181 in coal shafts. Source: SignOnSanDiego
20 August 2007, Ghana:
Communities Urge Government to Increase Mining Royalties.
Source: allAfrica.com
01 August 2007, Copper,
gold, platinum, diamonds, nickel. Labour disputes hamper production.
Source: Mineweb
01 August 2007, Copper
falls as U.S. home building slows. Source: International
Herald Tribune
01 August 2007, Gold,
copper end at highest levels in more than two months.
Source: Market Watch
18 June 2007, Asian
markets Monday shrug off Swiss gold sales announcement.
Source Mineweb.
15 June 2007, Kimberley
Process – United to fight blood diamonds! Source: EU Press
Room.
15 June 2007, Zambia:
Mines Social Responsibility Attracts State's Interest.
Source: allAfrica.com
10 June 2007, Governor
lauds Mining firms. Source: Ghana Homepage.
10 May 2007, Tanzania
to remove some mining incentives to benefit more from its
resources. Source: Mineweb.
09 May 2007, Foreign
investors’ views on Latin American taxation. Source: Inter-American
Development Bank
04 May 2007, Mercury:
ban exports and make storage safer. Source: European Parliament.
04 May 2007, Experts
say nations have means to tackle global warming. Source:
Agence France-Presse.
04 May 2007, Anglo's
buying spree bags Peru copper. Source: Miningmx
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Recent Documents/Sites
Resource
Endowment initiative. The
Challenge of Mineral Wealth: Using resource endowments to
foster sustainable development.
This multi-stakeholder initiative began in May 2004
in partnership with ICMM, UNCTAD and the World Bank Group
and has been carried out in three distinct phases.
The
biodiversity partnership program: Rio Tinto - The case study
published by the WBCSD details eight partnerships between Rio
Tinto and environmental, educational and indigenous NGOs.
Taking
the Lead: Mining and the Challenge of Economic Development
(PDF 208KB) - Nicolas Di Boscio, Rio Tinto Economics Department.
Paper presented to the International Mining Seminar: ‘Global
Investment, Local Challenges’, University of Dundee, Dundee
7-10 June 2004.
Upcoming
Events
"International
Workshop Management of Mining Revenues and Economic Diversification
Opportunities"
(10-11 December 2007) Lima, Peru, Organized by UNCTAD
"Diamonds
in Kimberley" Symposium. (23– 24 August 2007, South Africa)
Asia
Mining Congress 2007 (26-30 March Sigapore)
6th World Copper Conference (27-29 March, 2007, Satiago, Chile)
2007 ASIA Nonferrous Metals Investment Dialogue (15-17 April,
China
TBC
May 2006 - 9th
International Symposium on Environmental Issues and Waste
Management in Energy and Mineral Production (SWEMP 2006)
The Universidad Nacional Mayor
de San Marcos in Peru with the assistance of UNCTAD have developed
the website Red
Latinoamericana sobre Industrias Extractivas y Desarrollo Sostenible
