These sites are administered by organisations whose priority is to examine, criticise, and radically change the mining industry.

Web Link Hits      Inside the Diamond Industry Jani Farrell Roberts has researched De Beers, Rio Tinto, Ashton and other diamond miners for more than twenty years, You can read much of the suppressed documentation on her own site. 46      Great Basin Mine Watch Pledged to protect the people and environment of Nevada's Great Basin region from destructive mining, Great Basin Mine Watch organises an accessible and appropriately -illustrated site It is both regularly updated and linked with native American web 50      Friends of the Earth International Mining Campaign The campaign is being facilitated by FoE Ecuador, and co-ordinated by FoE Costa Rica. The website gives summaries of what different FoE national sections are doing as part of this international mining campaign. In 1999, the campaign adopted a firm a 50      Earthworks The site of the renamed Mineral Policy Center site is crisp, easy to navigate and contains lot of valuable documentation, both on mining in the USA and overseas. Good general information on mining impacts, and books, briefing papers and reports can b 83      CENSAT Agua Viva (Friends of the Earth Colombia) CENSAT is a long-standing analyst of mining's impacts in Colombia and doughty opponent of damaging projects. (Spanish language only) 45      Esquel Mine Opposition The "Vecinos Autonconvocados de Esquel" community organization, which is struggling against Meridian Gold's Esquel project in Argentina has launched this informative website. (Spanish language only) 57      Environmental Mining Council of British Columbia (EMCBC) Up to date news, especially on Canadian issues and the US Pacific northwest. Inter-active maps, Updates are available by e-mail. 49      DIOPIM Community on Mining Issues (DCMI) Based in Mindanao in the Philippines DCMI fights for the protection of the rights of Indigenous People to their Ancestral Domain, protection of environment and the rights of local communities to access their local resources. 49      Cyanide in Mining Extremely impressive, well-documented site: an obvious first stop for basic data on the adverse impacts of cyanide in gold mining 80      Cordillera Peoples Alliance The Cordillera Peoples Alliance (CPA) is committed to the promotion and defense of indigenous peoples’ rights, human rights, social justice, and national freedom and democracy working with grassroots-based organizations among indigenous communities 52      Clark Fork Coalition Useful material on the biggest base metals disaster site in the US and on work of the "superfund" - the legislation introduced to effect responsible clean up 53      Citizens Coal Council Undergoing site redesign. The old site has Documentation on toxic impacts of coal mining. 51      Bergama Gunlugu The English page of this site which focusses on the movement against gold mining using cyanide leaching in Bergama, Turkey. The homepage is in Turkish, and is updated every day. 39      ALAMIN-MAHAL Communities on the Philippine island of Mindoro, opposed to Norwegian-Canadian company Crew's plans for a nickel mine, have put up this informative and efficient site. The company would probably use the controversial practices of high temperature aci 45      Agua vale mas que oro The website was created by the Pastoral "Salvaguarda de la Creación" of the community of Alto del Carmen in the Huasco valley in order to provide content and information about Barrick Gold's Pascua Lama gold mining project in the 3rd region of Chile 47

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