By Stephen Davies Welcome to part two of my exposé of the recent cyanide spill at the Djibo dam. Here’s Part One if you missed it. Thank you to Simon Cross and Keith Smith for their excellent blog posts about this accident. Thanks also to those of you who have been tweeting and FBing your

By Stephen Davies When I was small, my mother told me not to run whilst carrying scissors. These days I rarely feel the need to run carrying scissors, but even if I wanted to I wouldn’t. Mother knows best. Dangerous items should be transported with due care. I cannot help thinking: if only the good

Two disturbing pieces of information about child labor and mining. Première, Wikileaks has posted a cable from diplomats on child labor in the DRC. Quoting from Wikileaks: “Summary: Child labor in the mining sector in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (RDC) is a significant and, seemingly, growing problem (refs A, B). Other than the