13th July 2012
Anglo Australian giant Rio Tinto earns $21bn a year from mining in Western Australia. They took me to visit their vast iron-ore mining operation in the remote Pilbara region, some 1000 km north of Perth. As I lined up at the airport with hundreds of miners in their hi-vis jackets, at 4.30 am, I reflected […]
21st February 2011
On 14 February, Valentine’s Day, there was the launch in London of the very first Fairmined and Fairtrade gold ingot from artisanal and small-scale mining. This was mined at the Cooperativa Minera Cotapata in the Nor Yungas area of La Paz. To receive this certification, the mine had to comply with a number of conditions. […]
16th September 2010 Ottawa, Canada
So on my quest as a Science & Innovation Officer for HMG to a) inform people of the UK Science and Innovation Network (in Canada and abroad) and b) to identify really cool cutting edge Canadian science, I’m off next week on a field trip to Sudbury, Ontario! View Larger Map Many of you who have been […]