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Keynote Address to theInternational People’s Mining
Conference 2015by Dr. Carol P. Araullo
Chairperson, Bagong Alyansang Makabayan(New Patriotic Alliance)
In 2013, five miners died after the coal mine in Semirara Island collapsed.
Photo credit: www.gmanetwork.com and newsinfo.inquirer.net
This detailed astronaut photograph released by the NASA Earth Observatory on April 12, 2010, shows the heavily gouged northern end of Semirara Island, Antique. Coal mining operations on the island were suspended after at least
nine people were killed in a collapse on Friday, July 17, 2015.
Photo credit: NASA EARTH OBSERVATORY
34 killed and at least 78 injured after police open fireon striking workers at Lonmin mine on August 2012
Photo credit: www.ryot.org
Rio Tinto has cosy ties with the Indonesian military,who have a long history of human rights abuses
Photo credit: westpapuamedia.info
Rescuers carry out a miner from the Qianqiu colliery in Yima onNovember 5 2011. China has one of the world’s deadliest records for miners.
Photo credit: AFP/Getty Images via CNN
In Colombia alone 18 mining companies own the rights to minein over 12 million acres (close to 5 million hectares) of land
Photo credit: www.colombiareports.com
Top: Mining tenure coverage in Cajamarca Region, PeruBottom: Map during the implementation of liberalization
Steel 'cheaper per tonne than cabbage' in China as iron ore hits six-year low
Photo credit: www.theguardian.com