Mining

Articles

Photo: In a valley near a forested hill, several round water basins with light blue liquid and white pipelines are visible.

Rare Earths: Why European Industries Are Dependent on Myanmar

Published: 29 April 2025

Almost two-thirds of the heavy rare earths dysprosium and terbium on the global market come from Myanmar. How should Germany and Europe deal with the mining of urgently needed rare earths in the civil war-torn country of Myanmar?

By Johanna Sydow

Criticality and the Securitization of Southeast Asia’s Indigenous Mineral Resources

Published: 12 February 2025

Article

Southeast Asia’s geographical location is blessed with abundant natural resources – minerals, forests, and wildlife. For hundreds of years, these resources have been a source of livelihood and even life for Indigenous peoples, as well as local communities. However, the capitalist perspective of development is rapidly encroaching on the mineral-rich lands of these peoples.

By Maya Quirino

Climate Smart-mining: A New Spin on a Familiar Trouble

Published: 12 February 2025

Article

Climate-smart mining appears to be a better alternative to traditional mining, known for its destructive nature. By hyphenating ‘climate’ with smart mining, it is a repackaged tool to attract the mineral-rich but developing countries.

By Maya Quirino

The False Promise of “Responsible Mining”

Published: 16 January 2025

Background

Major industry players are working together to create a voluntary global standard that can certify minerals as responsibly produced. But such a framework would consolidate the power and influence of these mining giants and allow them to act with impunity.

By Chelsea Hodgkins

Grafik: Kleines Modell einer arktischen Szene, Eisbär auf Eisschollen in einem transparenten blauen Würfel.

Notion on the EU Critical Raw Materials Act: Resource Extraction to serve EU interests?

Published: 10 September 2024

Comment

Lithium and other raw materials are essential for digitalization and renewable energies, but are often scarce and found outside the EU. With the Critical Raw Materials Act (CRMA), the EU wants to secure access for European industry in the long term.

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Publications

Photo: A dilapidated building with a partially collapsed roof and chimneys. In the foreground, a warning sign in Serbian. Above, the cover of the report The Jadar Project, Serbia: history, context and concerns.

The Jadar Project, Serbia

Published: 4 March 2025

E-Paper

Concerns about Serbia’s Jadar project grow due to irregularities by authorities and Rio Tinto. Issues like sustainability failures, activist repression, unlawful assessments, corruption, and political influence, erode trust. This briefing covers the developments, concerns, and implications.

By Jovan Rajić, Tibor Moldvai, Johanna Sydow and Katja Giebel

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Frontpage of Böll.Thema Cursed Treasures

Böll.Thema 2/23: Cursed Treasures

Published: 9 January 2024

Global demand for critical and strategic raw materials is on the rise. These resources are indispensable, particularly for the transition to clean energy, but also within other industry sectors. In this issue of our Böll.Thema magazine, we provide insights into recent developments in resource extraction, the associated challenges, and, most importantly, opportunities for positive change.

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Perspectives 1/2016: Rights and Resources

Published: 10 February 2020

With this edition of Perspectives, the Heinrich Böll Foundation explores some of the approaches and instruments that communities and their NGO partners have developed to create room for community-centred stakeholder participation, and to champion community interests and rights.

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The Real Price of Coal in the Wartime Donbas: a Human Rights Perspective

Published: 5 April 2017

This publication shows that the price of coal extraction in Donbas is not only its high production cost, but also a number of political and environmental consequences paid for by the people in Donbas and the entire population of Ukraine.

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Mining

Articles

Rare Earths: Why European Industries Are Dependent on Myanmar

Criticality and the Securitization of Southeast Asia’s Indigenous Mineral Resources

Climate Smart-mining: A New Spin on a Familiar Trouble

The False Promise of “Responsible Mining”

Notion on the EU Critical Raw Materials Act: Resource Extraction to serve EU interests?

The Rio Tinto Controversy in a Nutshell

Lithium Mining in Serbia: “An Open and Productive Debate Is Not Possible”

Southeast Europe: Plundering the Western Balkans

Publications

The Jadar Project, Serbia

Böll.Thema 2/23: Cursed Treasures

Perspectives 1/2016: Rights and Resources

The Real Price of Coal in the Wartime Donbas: a Human Rights Perspective

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