Investors back overhaul of Australian mining sector following caves inquiry
Rio Tinto's legal destruction of ancient Australian rockshelters showed the mining sector was exposed to material investment risks without more reforms.
Rio Tinto's legal destruction of ancient Australian rockshelters showed the mining sector was exposed to material investment risks without more reforms.
The parliamentary inquiry into Rio's destruction of a 46,000-year-old sacred Aboriginal site in May did not refer to what financial compensation the miner should pay.
Even then, in the context of Rio Tinto's $123 billion valuation, the amount was not likely to be material.
Goldman Sachs analysts said the current price strength “is not an irrational aberration” but rather “the first leg of a structural bull market in copper.”
Shareholders of India’s largest bank are raising concerns about a proposed loan to Adani Enterprises Ltd. to help fund the opening of the controversial Carmichael coal mine in northern Australia.
Any investment in Arctic refuge oil rights is unlikely to see action over the next four years.
The inquiry into the lawful destruction of the 46,000-year-old Juukan Gorge rock shelters is due to report on Dec. 9.
Some major mining executives have ruled themselves out, and there is not a long list of acceptable candidates.
Glencore has become the unwilling poster child of a campaign to change the constitution so Swiss companies are liable at home for human rights abuses or environmental harm they cause abroad.
Factors well known to have a health impact on the workers.