Who is RIO TINTO??
Rio Tinto: The Wikipedia Entry
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rio_Tinto_Group
Rio Tinto Exposed for Mining Impacts in Indonesia
http://www.foe.co.uk/resource/press_releases/rio_tinto_exposed_for_mini.html
Undermined Workers’ Rights
http://www.nodirtygold.org/undermined_workers_rights.cfm
Who is Resolution Copper Company?
http://www.friendsofqueencreek.com/FoQC_resolution.htm
Rio Tinto: Global Compact Violator
http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=622
Associating with the Wrong Company: Rio Tinto's Record
and the Global Compact
http://www.minesandcommunities.org/Company/rio8.htm
Rio Tinto Reports Conceal Kelian Scandal http://www.mpi.org.au/campaigns/rights/rio_tinto_conceal_human_rights_abuse/
Rio Tinto increases Northern Dynasty shares
Conservation group warns of mining risks
By Layton Ehmke|
Homer Tribune
January 31, 2007
The dig or no-dig fight over the Pebble prospect continues
as interest groups make moves by buying Alaska newspaper
space and making the rounds in public forums. The most
recent move comes from Northern Dynasty, which, as of
yesterday, announced that the Rio Tinto company will increase
its shares in Northern Dynasty by purchasing 9.4 million
common shares from the Galahad company at $10 per share.
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http://www.homertribune.com/article.php?aid=1208
UFA Addresses Slate of Fish Issues at Annual Meeting
By Laine Welch
Sit News
January 26, 2007
Citing concerns that “fish and minerals don’t
mix,” the United Fishermen of Alaska this week voted
unanimously to oppose the Pebble Mine project being proposed
near Bristol Bay. Pebble would be the largest open pit
copper and gold mine in North America.
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http://www.sitnews.us/LaineWelch/012607_fish_factor.html
Mine opponent challenges project
By Michael Armstrong
Homer News
January 24, 2007
Is it too soon to judge Northern Dynasty’s Pebble
Mine project?
When Sean Magee, vice president of public affairs for
Northern Dynasty, spoke in Homer last month about the
proposed mine, he asked for a fair hearing. Don’t
form an opinion until Northern Dynasty finishes its studies,
drafts its final plan and files for state and federal
permits, he said.
Tuesday night, Scott Brennan, a speaker for the Renewable
Resources Coalition—the main organization opposing
the Pebble Mine project—challenged that position
with an audience participation exercise.
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http://www.homernews.com/stories/012407/news_1_7002.shtml
Rio Tinto buys half of Galahad’s shares in Pebble
deposit
By Jon Nones
Resource Investor
January 26, 2007
London-based Galahad Gold plc has agreed to sell a 10.3%
stake in Vancouver-based Northern Dynasty Minerals Ltd,
half its total holding to Rio Tinto Group for C$94 million
(US$79.4 million). This brings Rio’s stake to almost
20% of Northern Dynasty.
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http://www.resourceinvestor.com/pebble.asp?relid=28467
Stake sale nets Galahad £40m
Penny Shares Online
January 26, 2007
Galahad Gold gleamed today after the group said it has
sold half its stake in Northern Dynasty Minerals (NDM)
to QIT-Fer Et Titane Inc for C$94m, or £40.3m in
cash.
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http://www.pennysharesonline.com/news/articles/1046532.asp
MINING NEWS: Alaskans offer to tell truth about Pebble
New organization will present facts to public about economic
benefits of Northern Dynasty’s controversial copper-gold
project
By Sarah Hurst
Mining News
Week of January 28, 2007
A broad spectrum of Alaskans who support the proposed
Pebble mine have formed a non-profit organization to inform
the public about Northern Dynasty’s copper-gold project
in the Bristol Bay region. Truth About Pebble was officially
launched at a meeting of the Resource Development Council
in Anchorage Jan. 18 with speeches by three of the new
organization’s board members.
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http://www.petroleumnews.com/pntruncate/645581033.shtml
Pebble official asks people to hold judgment for now
By Margaret Bauman
Alaska Journal of Commerce
January 28, 2007
Spokesman for a Canada-based mine development firm embarked
on a huge mining venture in Southwest Alaska said Jan.
16 they still have a long way to go to define their project.
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http://www.alaskajournal.com/stories/012807/hom_20070128013.shtml
MINING NEWS: Pebble opponents don’t discourage
Northern Dynasty
Fieldwork, community meetings for Pebble project will
continue this year against backdrop of well-funded negative
campaign
By Sarah Hurst
Mining News
Week of January 28, 2007
Campaigners against the Pebble copper-gold project in
southwest Alaska look set to spend more money than ever
in 2007, but for mining junior Northern Dynasty it will
be business as usual, with work at the site scheduled
to restart in early February. The Vancouver-based company
hopes to bring in bigger drill rigs to delineate the Pebble
East zone, which has the potential to become an underground
mine adjacent to the proposed open pit.
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http://www.petroleumnews.com/pntruncate/116364265.shtml
Pro-Pebble group aims to counter mine
foes
By Tim Bradner
Alaska Journal of Commerce
January 28, 2007
A group of influential Alaskans has formed a nonprofit
group to counter what they called misinformation being
disseminated in television and newspaper advertisements
by groups opposing Pebble, a possible mine on the Alaska
Peninsula southwest of Anchorage.
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