London Mining Network

19/08/2026

📣23 September: our next Resisting Mining Book Club!

We're excited to be joined by Françoise Vergès for a hybrid event with Manchester Museum. We'll be discussing “Making the World Clean: Wasted Lives, Wasted Environment, and Racial Capitalism”.

In "Making the World Clean", Françoise Vergès examines the racial and gendered politics of wasting lands, bodies, and resources and the organised deprivation of clean water, shelter, and access to health services—in other words, the structural denial, along racial lines, of vital needs.

Through 38 short sections, including on mining waste, she looks at the social relations that have made cleaning into drudgery and into a racialised, gendered, poorly paid job that is nevertheless necessary for any society to function. She concludes with the proposition of a feminist, decolonial, antiracist, anti-patriarchal, and anti-capitalist politics of cleaning, a “decolonial cleaning.”

Register:

We welcome Françoise Vergès to discuss "Making the World Clean: Wasted Lives, Wasted Environment and Racial Capitalism".

13/08/2026

📣 Solidarity is a verb and not a noun. Our AGM interventions are part of a global movement resisting extractivism from the frontlines and from the imperial core. Communities around the world are fighting back against the destructive scramble for ‘critical minerals’, as it fuels military and data centre expansions while creating sacrifice zones in the name of a ‘green transition’. Join us in fighting for a post-extractivist future - sign up to our mailing list via the link in our bio for the latest news in the fight for a just and liveable future 🌱

13/08/2026

English / español - The hearing to decide the future of Los Bronces Integrado has been postponed. New date tbc / La audiencia para determinar el futuro de Los Bronces Integrado has sido aplazada. Nueva fecha a confirmar.

The environmental approval of Anglo American's existential threat to Chile's glaciers must be overturned! / Se debe anular la autorización ambiental del proyecto de Anglo American que representa una amenaza existencial a los glaciares chilenos!

07/08/2026

English / español - Next week a Chilean court could set one of the country’s most important environmental precedents of recent decades for the protection of glaciers / La próxima semana el Segundo Tribunal Ambiental de Chile podría establecer uno de los precedentes ambientales más importantes de las últimas décadas para la protección de los glaciares en el país.

Anglo American’s Los Bronces Integrado copper mine is accelerating glacier melt, contaminating the water supply and threatening communities’ health. Its environmental approval must be overturned / La mina de cobre Los Bronces Integrado de Anglo American acelera el derritimiento de glaciares, contamina el agua y amenaza la salud de las comunidades. Se debe dejar sin efecto la autorización ambiental del proyecto.

06/08/2026

We’re fighting for a just transition untainted by blood minerals.

London Mining Network exists to hold the London-based mining industry and the financial structures that enable it to account. We refuse to accept that communities, rivers, mountains, glaciers, ecosystems and ways of life should be sacrificed so that mining companies can profit and continue the extractivist logic that has fuelled the climate crisis. In May we stood outside Glencore’s London HQ to raise the voices of the communities impacted by its operations in Brazil, Peru, DRC, Colombia and Argentina and demand accountability for the pollution, health problems, water scarcity and many more injustices they are facing while Glencore gives out $2 billion to its shareholders.

We work in solidarity with a global network of resistance to Glencore. Check out our zine to find out more:https://londonminingnetwork.org/2026/06/zine-global-resistance-to-glencore/

05/08/2026

Solidarity with and communities resisting AngloGold Ashanti's gold and copper mining in Colombia.

05/08/2026

It's almost midnight in Australia but still time to lodge your opposition to the expansion of Glencore's coal mine in New South Wales. Find out more and join the campaign here: https://www.risingtide.org.au/hvo_campaign

28/07/2026

Next week! Join us as we welcome Nicholas Beuret to the Resisting Mining Book Club to discuss "Or Something Worse: Why We Need to Disrupt the Climate Transition".

The push for net zero has become a new arena for class conflict, where the powerful profit and the rest suffer. Nicholas Beuret’s incisive critique and actionable strategies empower us to fight for a truly sustainable and equitable future.

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We welcome Nicholas Beuret to the Resisting Mining Book Club as we discuss Or Something Worse: Why We Need to Disrupt the Climate Transition.

16/07/2026

Who benefits from the global mineral rush?

Not the communities whose lands are being decimated by new mines.

RUSH reveals how governments, billionaires & corporations are racing to secure strategic minerals while local people bear the costs.

https://www.oaklandinstitute.org/report/rush

16/07/2026

📣 New date for our book club confirmed! Hope you can join us on Tuesday 28 July, 6-8pm to discuss “Or Something Worse: Why We Need to Disrupt the Climate Transition” with author Nic Beuret.

If you haven’t registered already, you can do so below. You don’t need to have read the book to participate in the event but you’ll receive a pdf extract when you register. If you can’t make the new date, a recording will be available after the event 📚

https://londonminingnetwork.org/2026/06/resisting-mining-book-club-or-something-worse-why-we-need-to-disrupt-the-climate-transition-with-nicholas-beuret/

We welcome Nicholas Beuret to the Resisting Mining Book Club as we discuss Or Something Worse: Why We Need to Disrupt the Climate Transition.