Rio Tinto has brought in replacement workers to do the jobs of long-time, experienced miners, some of whom have worked at the mine and processing plant for 30 to 40 years. It is unclear if the replacement workers have the ability to produce the same quality product with the same reliability as the experienced Boron miners Rio Tinto has locked out. It seems that Rio Tinto is simply using the replacement workers to help the company starve out the locked-out families. The families of Boron have paid a heavy price for their courageous decision to stand up to Rio Tinto, a multi-billion-dollar, global bully that is used to pushing people around and getting its own way.
They worry about making mortgage payments, paying for health insurance and putting food on the table. But with the support of the Boron community and of families and workers throughout California, the U. Resistance to the mine was so intense, the company was forced to close it in and, since that time, the mine has not been operational. A class action complaint on behalf of the people of Bougainville now in U.
In response, the Papua New Guinea government brought in troops to reopen it. Rio Tinto allegedly provided vehicles and helicopters to transport troops and played a role in instituting a military blockade that lasted for almost 10 years, causing the deaths of 10, people between and Rio Tinto has been fighting the class action for a decade, seeking to have the complaint dismissed.
Over the life of the project, the mine reportedly will dump up to 3. In December , Rio's plans for the project were thrown into disarray when the government stripped it of the northern half of the mining concession, handing it to BSG Resources Guinea, a subsidiary of Israeli businessman Benny Steinmetz's BSG Resources. Rio has engaged in top level discussions with various stakeholders in an effort to clarify the status of the project.
Rio Tinto remains of the view that it has complied with all its obligations in relation to the Concession such that it is entitled to hold and retain the entire Concession. It continues working with the Guinean Government to seek to resolve this matter on that basis. At a proposed production rate of over 70 million tonnes per annum, the Simandou mine would pay millions of dollars each year in taxes and royalties to the Government of Guinea, and millions of dollars to a regional development fund.
This would amount to billions of dollars over the life of the mine. The expected annual royalties from the Simandou project alone would represent many times what the Government currently receives from all mining revenues in Guinea. This revenue to the Government would increase in proportion to increased production. Rio employs fewer than expatriate staff and "a few hundred" Guinean nationals in the West African state, where the company is conducting work on the Simandou iron ore project, one of the world's largest undeveloped iron ore deposits.
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