Large-Scale Mining
Fueled by ever-increasing demand and the boom-and-bust cycles of global commodity markets, large-scale mining destroys forests and pollutes soil, air and water. Violent conflicts, sexual exploitation, criminalization and displacement of communities living in forests destroyed for mining, are examples of social impacts that are inherently linked with the mining industry.
Bulletin articles
8 July 2026
More than 20 years after the article was first published in the WRM Bulletin, the dispute over minerals continues to fuel a violent conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The analysis presented 20 years ago sadly remains relevant today: "Behind the myth of ethnic rivalries are the old colonial powers that continue to plunder the riches of post-colonial Africa."
Bulletin articles
9 July 2021
This article highlights the voices of Justiça Ambiental! in Mozambique and the African ecofeminist alliance WoMIN.
Bulletin articles
10 August 2015
Bulletin articles
10 July 2015
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28 August 2008
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18 August 2007
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18 July 2007
Bulletin articles
11 February 2003