1. Arizona Copper Mine Strike of 1983
   Connexipedia Article
   Resource Type: Article
   Published: 1983
   Dispute between the Phelps Dodge Corporation and a unionized copper miners.
2. Bennett Jones LLP
   Media Profile in Sources
   Resource Type: Organization
   
3. The Big Nickel
   Inco at home and abroad
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1977
   An account of the economic power of the world's largest producer of nickel, how it operates in Canada and the Third World, and its human consequences. The Big Nickel also looks at the resistance to the corporation, and the union-busting, attacks by company goons, and successful organizing drives.
4. Brazilian dam disaster 'is part of a pattern'
   Resource Type: Article
   Published: 2019
   A team of Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB) academics is marking the international day of action for rivers by hanging out the dirty laundry of a very dirty company.
5. Building resistance to Canada's destructive mining industry
   Review of Joan Kuyek's book Unearthing Justice
   Resource Type: Article
   Published: 2019
   In her book Unearthing Justice: How to Protect Your Community from the Mining Industry, long-time activist Joan Kuyek brilliantly shares lessons from decades of fighting environmental and community disruption by Canada’s mining corporations.
6. Canada Since 1960: A People's History
   A Left Perspective on 50 Years of Politics, Economics and Culture
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 2016
   An account of the most important developments in Canadian history from the 1960s to today, seen through the eyes of Canadian Dimension magazine.
7. Canadian mining firm Pacific Rim and El Salvador's struggle against corporate impunity
   Resource Type: Article
   Published: 2014
   The controversial legal case that Canadian mining firm Pacific Rim has launched against El Salvador has added fuel to the growing international debate on the balance of corporate rights and responsibilities and the need for new legal international frameworks to address corporate impunity.
8. Chiapas Anti-Mining Organizer Murdered
   Mariano Abarca Led a Growing Movement to Kick Canadian Mining Companies Out of Mexican Communities
   Resource Type: Article
   Published: 2009
   Mariano Abarca Roblero, one of Mexico's most prominent anti-mining organizers, was shot to death on the evening of November 27, 2009, in front of his house in Chicomuselo, Chiapas. The incident comes just days after Abarca filed charges against two Blackfire employees, Ciro Roblero Perez and Luis Antonio Flores Villatoro, for threatening to shoot him if he didn't stop organizing against Canadian mining company Blackfire's barium mine in Chicomuselo.
9. Chile Report
   Enterprise and Repression Multinational Goes to Chile
   Resource Type: Article
   Published: 1976
   Looks at Noranda Mines' copper mine investment in Chile.
10. Coal Miners' Futures in Renewable Energy
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2017
    If President Trump wants to earn a rare legislative victory and take political credit for reviving hard-hit regions of rural America, he should take a close look at how one Kentucky coal company is creating jobs.
11. Cobalt: Cradle of the Demon Metals, Birth of a Mining Superpower
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2022
    
12. Commemorating France's Worst Mining Tragedy: 1099 Workers Perished to Profit the Bosses
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2006
    A mining catastrophe in northern France on March 10, 1906, is remembered with a number of commemorative ceremonies.
13. The Complete Works of Rosa Luxemburg, Volume I
    Economic Writings 1
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2013
    This first volume in Rosa Luxemburg's Complete Works, entitled Economic Writings 1, contains some of Luxemburg's most important statements on the globalization of capital, wage labour, imperialism, and pre-capitalist economic formations.
14. Connexions
    Volume 4, Number 5 - October 1979 - Nuclear Energy\Energie Nucleaire
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1979
    
15. Connexions
    Volume 6, Number 3 - September 1981 - Atlantic Development/Le Developpement Atlantique
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1981
    
16. Courrieres Mine Disaster 1906
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2018
    The devastating mine disaster in 1906 that killed over 1,000 workers in Courrieres, France, is remembered.
17. Cracked Houses in San Miguel Ixtahuacan: The Marlin Mine Influence
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2009
    Today in Guatemala City, COPAE and UUSC present the results of an investigation, after two years of monitoring by a team of engineers: 'Cracked Houses Around the Marlin Mine: Preliminary Investig
18. Greg Crowe, Mining and Commodities Expert
    Media Profile in Sources
    Resource Type: Organization
    
19. The Devil Operation
    Resource Type: Film/Video
    A tale of corporate espionage unfolds in this exposé of torture, intimidation, and murder of Peruvian eco-activists and indigenous farmers. Shocking video footage, horrifying photos, and meticulous reports compiled by private security firms working for U.S. and British-owned gold mines are co-opted by the filmmakers to reveal the truth.
20. Ecodefense
    A Field Guide to Monkeywrenching. Second Edition
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1987
    
21. EnvironmentSources.com
    Resource Type: Website
    Published: 2017
    Web portal with information about environmental issues and resources, with articles, documents, books, websites, and experts and spokespersons. The home page features a selection of recent and important articles. A search feature, subject index, and other research tools make it possible to find additional resources and information.
22. Estevan Coal Miners' Strike, 1931
    Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
    Resource Type: Article
    A strike which led to the murder of three miners by the RCMP.
23. False Promises
    The Shaping of American Working Class Consciousness
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1973
    
24. Fighting for Their Water and Their Lives, Communities Take Direct Action Against Barrick Gold in the Dominican Republic
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2017
    People who live near the Pueblo Viejo gold mine iin Dominican Republic struggle to gain accountabilty from the Canadian-owned companies running it. Their environment has been poisoned and they want funds for 600 families to be relocated.
25. Five journalists attacked during protests against Conga mining project
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2012
    Five journalists were attacked and injured during violent protests against a proposed mine in the northern Cajamarca region of Peru, a day after the government declared a state of emergency.
26. In Brazil, thousands of people are still living under the threat of bursting mining dams
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2019
    The Brazilian state of Minas Gerais is home to several large dams many of which have burst causing death and environment damage. There is evidence that some of these disasters were predictable.
27. In China's Inner Mongolia, mining spells misery for traditional herders
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    China's relentless drive for minerals is wreaking havoc on pastoral lifestyles.
28. Leadville Colorado, Miners' Strike
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    Occurred as a result of rapid industrialization and consolidation of the mining industry.
29. Looting Africa: Canadian Company Eyes Gold in Democratic Republic of Congo
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2009
    A Canadian mining company is prepared to bring hundreds of millions of dollars in gold out of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, one of Africa's most embattled and poorest countries. One expert says that to extract gold, the company will have to cut a deal with a violent African militia.
30. Mine Accidents and Disasters
    Resource Type: Website
    An Australian website documenting mine accidents and disasters.
31. Miners and Steelworkers
    Labour in Cape Breton
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1976
    
32. Miners' strike: senior officer was 'appalled' at conduct of other police
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2012
    A senior police officer breaks ranks to describe how he and others were "appalled" at the behaviour of colleagues during the 1984-85 miners' strike in the UK, as calls mount for a fresh inquiry into the policing of the dispute.
33. Minewar.org
    Resource Type: Website
    Documenting the 1930's Illinois mine war.
34. Mining companies funded Indonesian abuses
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2011
    Two mine operators have cosy ties with the Indonesian military, who have a long history of human rights abuses.
35. Mining Peru
    Canada's New Territory?
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2010
    In Peru, 40 percent of conflicts involving local communities are over mining. The majority of the mining sector in Peru is owned by Canadian corporations.
36. MiningWatch Canada
    Media Profile in Sources
    Resource Type: Organization
    
37. Neskantaga First Nation Battles American Mining Goliath Cliffs in Toronto Mining Court
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2012
    The Neskantaga First Nation is taking their fight for proper First Nation consultation in the Ring of Fire to the Toronto Mining Court.
38. OceanaGold vs El Salvador: Foreshadowing 'Trade' Under the TPP?
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    The Central American country of El Salvador could be forced to pay US$301 million to Canadian-Australian mining multinational OceanaGold as the two face off in a World Bank investor-state tribunal with proven tendency to favor corporate interests over arguments for protecting national sovereignty, the environment, and human rights.
39. On the hunt for illegal miners as a new gold rush hits New Zealand
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2017
    A look at the black market in gold in New Zealand and the efforts to thwart opportunists who sneak onto private farm land and national parks without permits to mine illegally.
40. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - August 21, 2015
    Canadian federal election, mining and the environment
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 2015
    Featuring the Canadian federal election, mining and the environment, failure of Syriza in Greece, refugees, veterans of India's struggle for independence.
41. People power: how Montana stopped the biggest coal mine in North America
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2016
    Campaigners are celebrating after defeating plans to build America's largest open pit coal mine. In an epic 'David and Goliath' battle, Montana activists challenged the project, and all the politicians and businessmen that supported it, with fierce opposition, protests and demonstrations. The outcome spells hope for all in the fight against dirty energy.
42. Polish farmers threaten uprising over opencast coalmine
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    Heinz unites with farmers in rebellion against plan to build a vast lignite mine and power plant on farming land in western Poland.
43. Price of Gold
    Resource Type: Film/Video
    Published: 2012
    Mongolia is known for its original Nomad culture as well as the spectacular natural landscape. Since gold deposits have been discovered however, both are threatened.
44. Project Chile
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1977
    The pamphlet serves as background material for Project Chile, a national campaign to stop Canadian private investment in Chile and all governmental support for such investment until human rights and democratic institutions are restored.
45. Romania faces $2.56bn claim for failed gold mine
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    Canadian mining company Gabriel Resources is seeking over $2.5 billion damages from Romania after it rejected a vast gold mine at Rosia Montana.
46. Salvadorans Warn Canadians about World Bank's Kangaroo Court
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    In anticipation of an imminent ruling from the World Bank's little known investor-state arbitration tribunal that could force El Salvador to pay Canadian mining firm OceanaGold US$301 million, a Salvadoran delegation is in Canada to discuss how this arbitration process threatens democratic decision making, public health and the environment here and beyond.
47. Scargill, Arthur
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    British trade unionist and political party leader. (Born 1938).
48. Third World Minerals and Global Pricing
    A New Theory
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1989
    This study examines the distribution of the enormous wealth inherent in the Third World's mineral resources. Dr. Nwoke criticizes the bargaining model usually used to explain relations between global corporations and Third World governments. Instead, he develops the theory of ground rent to argue that today's mineral crisis lies in the struggle between Western mining companies and the Third World over which side can appropriate the most "rent" from international mining.
49. An Unauthorized Biography of the World
    Oral History on the Front Lines
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2004
    This book uses oral history to discuss oral history. It is in memoir style, and delves into how oral history is done in such places as First Nations (Canada), Turkey, Chicago, Newfoundland, Peru, New York City, Cleveland, Israel, and other places. Riordon's concept is about telling stories, celebrating diversity, and making connections between people.
50. Waihi miners' strike
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    A major strike action in 1912 by gold miners in the New Zealand town of Waihi.
51. Where Heaven Meets Hell
    Resource Type: Film/Video
    Published: 2011
    Drawing strength from their families and their Muslim faith, Indonesian sulfur miners face gruelling labour and treacherous conditions on an active volcano, while struggling to overcome the desperate poverty and illiteracy that plague their community.
52. Will El Salvador be forced to pay $301 million for valuing clean water over gold?
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    The Central American state of El Salvador could be forced to pay US$301 million in damages to an Australian-Canadian mining company, OceanaGold, after the company's application for a mining license was rejected on the basis of the projected environmental damage it would cause.

Experts on Mining Industry in the Sources Directory

1. CorpWatch