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| Families want payout from gold firm by Patty Magubira, Mwanza , The Citizen May 20th, 2009 The North Mara Gold Mine (NMGM) has been given ten days in which to compensate members of 30 households claiming to have been affected by its poisonous heavy metals. |
| Tanzania: Seeping Water from Mine Stokes Health Scare Trading Markets May 18th, 2009 Water from a storage pond at Barrick Gold's North Mara mine in Tanzania is seeping through containing walls, leading local villagers to fear their water sources are contaminated. |
| Activists Try to Block Start of Pascua Lama Mine by Daniela Estrada , Inter Press Service News Agency May 18th, 2009 As Canadian mining giant Barrick Gold gets ready to start construction at the Pascua Lama mine, straddling the Argentine-Chilean border, activists in Chile are scrambling to block the ambitious mining project while calling for an investigation of supposed irregularities committed in the approval process. |
 | RoyalOr Stakes a Claim on Mont-Royal May 15th, 2009 RoyalOr is composed of members of various communities around the world confronting projects developed by Canadian mining companies � including Barrick Gold, Goldcorp, New Gold, and Osisko. Affected community representatives came to Montreal from the Valle de Siria, Honduras; Valle de Huasco, Chile; Porgera, Papua New Guinea; San Luis Potosi, Mexico; and Malartic, Quebec. |
| Under Andean ice, a golden prize AFP May 15th, 2009 An ambitious gold mining project in northern Chile, high up in the Andes close to ancient glaciers, is finally getting underway amid the economic downturn despite fears from environmentalists. |
| Porgera mine area landowners need relocating, says PNG Enga Governor by Peter Ipatas , Radio New Zealand International May 8th, 2009 The Governor of Papua New Guinea�s Enga Province says the national government and operators of the Porgera gold mine need to look at relocating people who live within Porgera�s Special Mining Lease, SML, area. |
| MEDIA RELEASE: Indigenous Leaders from Papua New Guinea, Chile Raise Serious Human Rights and Environmental Concerns Around Barrick Gold Operations Mining Watch Canada May 6th, 2009 Even as houses near Barrick's mine in the highlands of Papua New Guinea are being burned down in a joint military and police action, Jethro Tulin is in Canada to address shareholders and government officials, whom he considers complicit in the suffering of his people as a result of Barrick's Porgera Joint Venture mine. |
| MEDIA RELEASE: Indigenous Leaders confront Barrick Gold April 29th, 2009 Indigenous leaders from Papua New Guinea and Chile traveled to Canada this week to attend the April 29 shareholders� meeting of Barrick Gold. Here, they will confront Barrick about human rights abuses and environmental degradation on their lands. |
| Western Shoshone gather at NV mountain being mined by Martin Griffith, Associated Press April 18th, 2009 Dozens of Western Shoshone tribal members and activists are holding an annual ceremonial event on the flank of a northern Nevada mountain that is at the heart of their legal battle against the world's biggest gold mining company. |
| MEDIA RELEASE: 28 peaceful protesters arrested after authorisation to occupy mine site April 12th, 2009 28 protesters were arrested this morning at Barrick Gold's mine operation in Lake Cowal, central western New South Wales. They were authorised to enter the mine site by Wiradjuri Tradtional Owners of Lake Cowal and its surrounds. |
 | MEDIA ALERT: Smoking ceremony, blockade and protesters occupy open cut pit halting mine operations. April 12th, 2009 Wiradjuri Traditional Owners and supporters are inside Barrick Gold�s mine operation in Lake Cowal central western New South Wales currently halting operations. Wiradjuri are conducting a smoking ceremony inside the mine site. Over 10,000 artefacts have been stolen and kept by Barrick Gold Corporation at the mine site in a compound encircled by a 6 foot fence. Over 25 supporters are currently occupying the open-cut pit and several others are blockading the front gate to prevent shift change. |
| ACTION ALERT: Gold mine operation halted due to smoking ceremony April 12th, 2009 Over 50 people have been lead to the edge of Barrick Gold Corporations mine site by Wiradjuri Traditional Owners of the Lake Cowal area in a ceremony to cleanse the land and to stop mine operations. |
| Indigenous activisits protest gold mine expansion
Radio Australia News April 11th, 2009 In Australia, indigenous campaigners are holding a weekend-long protest to try to force the closure of a gold mine in central New South Wales. |
| MEDIA RELEASE: Protesters to halt mining operations - unsustainable mining harms Australia April 11th, 2009 Concerned citizens have gathered in solidarity with Wiradjuri Traditional Owners of the Lake Cowal area to halt Barrick Gold Corporation�s mine operation in the lake. The campaign to Save Lake Cowal has been running for 10 years, this is the seventh gathering at Lake Cowal to protest the mine. |
| Enga Governor opposes PNG military presence at Porgera Radio New Zealand International April 10th, 2009 The Governor of Enga province in Papua New Guinea says the government�s decision to deploy members of the Defence Force and police to Porgera is not in the best interest of the local people. |
| PNG to boost security around gold mine by Liam Fox, ABC News April 9th, 2009 The Papua New Guinea Government is boosting security to deal with lawlessness around a gold mine in the Papua New Guinea highlands. |
| Porgera security ops set to kick off by David Muri, The National � Papua New Guinea April 6th, 2009 INTERNAL Security Minister Sani Rambi says more than 300 security personnel will be deployed to the strife-torn Porgera valley in Enga province to flush out warlords and stop illegal mining activities. |
| UN to tackle mercury menace by MICHAEL RICHARDSON, The Canberra Times March 3rd, 2009 Fear sparked by global recession, strains on banks and volatile paper currencies has brought the glitter back to gold. Its value has been rising rapidly in recent months, as investors seek a safe-haven from the economic and financial storm. |
| PNG Govt bolsters gold mine security by Steve Marshall, ABC February 27th, 2009 Soldiers and police in Papua New Guinea are being sent into the country's highlands to help tackle a deteriorating security situation near a huge gold mine. |
| Barrick Australia says it will push ahead with plans to expand its Cowal Gold Mine at West Wyalong, despite a loss in the New South Wales Land and Environment Court. ABC Central West NSW February 10th, 2009 Barrick Gold has submitted a proposal to modify its development consent at the mine to almost double its size and extend its life by 11 years. Native title applicant Neville Williams started court action against the plan last November. On Friday, the Land and Environment Court upheld Mr Williams' challenge that the project is not a modification of the mine's existing development consent, but rather a radical transformation. |
