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11 Apr 2024

Fuelling injustice: Companies respond to allegations linked to transition minerals in EECA region

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In April 2024, the Business & Human Rights Resource Centre published "Fuelling Injustice: Transition Mineral Impacts in Eastern Europe & Central Asia" - an analysis that exposes the scale and severity of human rights abuses and environmental damage caused by companies mining and processing transition minerals in EECA, emphasizing that changes are urgently needed in the EECA mining sector to ensure the transition to clean energy is not achieved at the expense of people and the environment.

The briefing includes 421 publicly reported allegations of environmental and human rights abuses between 2019 and 2023 that are linked to mining project development, extraction and processing (smelting and refining) of 20 transition minerals in 16 EECA countries. It also outlines recommendations for companies, governments, investors and financial institutions.

In line with the Resource Centre’s strategy and libel policy, we made every effort to reach out to companies accused of abuse and ask them to respond to allegations made using our Company Response Mechanism (unless the company has already publicly commented on the case, or if the abuse is the basis of a lawsuit or regulatory action, or the company has no website or contacts to reach to them).

We invited 49 companies to respond. We received 10 responses. All responses and non-responses can be found below.

Company Responses

Rio Tinto View Response
Asarel Medet JSC View Response
Zangezur Copper Molybdenum Combine View Response
Mineco International Limited View Response
Adriatic Metals View Response
Rich Metals Group B.V View Response
AlbChrome Ltd.

No Response

GeoProMining

No Response

Lydian International

No Response

Arcore AG

No Response

Aurubis Bulgaria

No Response

Dundee Precious Metals

No Response

Georgian Manganese LLC

No Response

Tara Resources

No Response

Azerbaijan International Mining Company Ltd (AIMC)

No Response

Euromax Resources

No Response

Jugohrom Ferroalloys Ltd

No Response

Minstroy Holding JSC

No Response

Newco Ferronikeli Complex LLC

No Response

Medgold Resources Corp

No Response

KAZ Minerals PLC

No Response

Glencore

No Response

JSC Russkii Khrom 1915

No Response

RUSAL

No Response

Norilsk Nickel

No Response

Rosatom

No Response

Ural Mining and Metallurgical Company (UMMC)

No Response

Lebedinsky mining & processing plant JSC

No Response

Highland Gold

No Response

LLC Novosibirsk Tin Plant

No Response

OJSC Krasnoyarsk Non-Ferrous Metals Plant named after V.N. Gulidov

No Response

VSMPO-Avisma Corporation PJSC

No Response

JSC Evraz Kachkanar Mining and Processing Plant

No Response

BGV Group Management

No Response

Metinvest

No Response

Onur

No Response

DCH

No Response

Ferrexpo plc

No Response

PJSC Marhanets mining & processing plant

No Response

PJSC Pokrovsky mining & processing plant

No Response

PJSC United Mining and Chemical Company (UMCC Titanium)

No Response

Group DF

No Response

Zijin Mining View Response
Eurasian Resources Group (ERG) View Response
Tajik-China Mining Co. Ltd.

No Response

Chaarat Kapan

No Response

Teghout CJSC

No Response

Lykos Metals Limited View Response
ArcelorMittal Kryvyi Rih View Response

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