Case Studies

  • Camp Morningstar, Manitoba, Canada

    Camp Morningstar continues its fight against silica sand mining on sacred Anishinaabe lands in Manitoba, Canada.

  • Espinar Province, Peru, Glencore

    In Espinar Province, located in the highlands of Peru, Glencore has been running a gigantic copper mine since 2013. The mine has had a dramatic impact on the province’s approximately 60,000 inhabitants, most of whom belong to the Quechua or K’ana Indigenous communities.

  • Peehee Mu’huh (Thacker Pass), Humboldt County, Nevada

    A proposed lithium mine in Thacker Pass, Nevada, threatens Indigenous burial sites, water resources, and wildlife.

  • Taimyr Peninsula, Russia

    Indigenous communities impacted by nickel mining by Nornickel in Russia search for avenues of justice.

  • El Estor, Guatemala

    For years, Q'eqchi’ community members in El Estor have been battling the Fenix Nickel Mine to protect their water sources.

  • Atacama, Chile

    The Atacama Desert in the north of Chile is the ancestral homeland of the Lickan Antay Indigenous Peoples. In addition to the beauty of the landscape, the region's salt flat is the largest salt deposit in the country and contains the largest lithium reserves in the world.

  • Jequitinhonha Valley, Brazil

    The Jequitinhonha Valley in southeast Brazil has been a hotbed for mining for decades, with new destructive transition mineral extractivist activities instigating even more conflicts, anxiety, and rights violations in Indigenous communities.

  • Greenbushes, Western Australia

    Cornwall Pit lithium mine in Greenbushes, Western Australia is known for being the longest continuously operated mining district in the area, beginning with tin mining in the late 1880s and continuing to mining of tantalum and lithium deposits today.

  • Ayllu Acre Antequera, Oruro, Bolivia

    The Bolivian government has promised that its mining industry will operate with transparency, credibility, and respect for the environment. The case of the community of Totoral Chico in the Ayllu Acre Antequera area, where a group made up predominantly of Indigenous women was attacked by workers from the Avicaya Mining Union, calls this promise into question.