Celebrities such as Bianca Jagger, Michael Palin and Joanna Lumley have spoken out against the mining project.
The Dongria Kondh say the mining project will destroy their sacred hill and their source of livelihood.
Rio Tinto, an Anglo-Australian mining company, recently said it was withdrawing from a gold-mining project in Kurdistan.
Without them on board, the giant mining project could not come to fruition.
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It has described one of them, the Solomon Hub, as "the most valuable undeveloped mining project in the world".
Davis as the mining project developer and deal maker.
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After the mining company, which is working on properties in Western Canada and Alaska, said it and partner Teck Cominco halted an unexpectedly costly mining project in British Columbia, its shares lost more than half their value on Monday.
Elizabeth Caesens, the head of the Carter Center's mining governance project in DR Congo, said www.congomines.org would make it easier for the public to track developments in the industry, including money allocated for development.
And we must all work harder to secure and fully implement the new standard that will see oil, gas and mining companies reporting project by project payments across the world without exception.
Beejan believes this could hurt investments already committed by mining companies to the Plan Nord project.
Oyu Tolgoi is the poster project for a national mining boom that sees Ulaanbaatar crawling with foreign miners and their investment bankers.
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And if Vale takes a stake, the Belo Monte dam project will have a global mining company involved.
The mining companies point out the huge benefits the project brings in terms of employment, tax revenue and foreign exchange.
The big prize here is a 20% stake in the Fort Hills oil sands project, an open-pit mining operation targeting 3.4 billion barrels of bitumen.
The mining engineers on the multi-billion pound Crossrail project are certainly a passionate lot.
Noelle Nelson, the acting chief executive of Anglo-Australian mining giant Rio Tinto, which is backing the project, said the settlers' first-hand accounts at the State Library are "unrivalled".
The Skouries project is the latest in a complex of mining facilities in the area.
Newmont Mining is keeping all options open as far as its Conga project in Peru is concerned.
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McEwen Mining is also in the permit process for its Gold Bar project in Nevada, hoping to begin construction in 2014.
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The Conga project has become a lightning rod for larger debates about whether mining can benefit local communities without damaging the environment and whether or not national economic interests should trump local opposition to mining activities.
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Until recently many of the world's biggest mining firms had been falling over themselves to get a stake in the Busang project.
Mining company Vale (VALE) has roughly a 9% stake in the project.
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In case you think WNYC is spending your hard-earned contributions on a subject that flirts with frivolity and you're considering unincluding them in your estate planning, they assured me that this project was pushed into the New Year by more important data-mining efforts, on subjects such as superstorm Sandy and the recent presidential election.
Pan American announced in July that it had curtailed development at the promising Navidad project in Argentina as it waits to see if changes are made in mining laws.
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