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Extractive Relations explores the nature of industrial power and its role in shaping what we understand to be the global mining sector. The authors examine issues at the forefront of contemporary debates: corporate obligations in safeguarding the rights of people displaced by mining, the recognition of community rights and interests in supporting or opposing mining developments, the handling of non-judicial grievances and workability of corporate remedy systems, and the logic of community relations departments in navigating these issues inside and outside of the typical modern mining establishment. The authors develop a unique theoretical approach that highlights the different types and uses of power in these settings. This perspective is supported by the authors' own sustained engagement with the mining sector over many years, drawing on cases from over twenty countries. The analysis of these issues from both 'inside' and 'outside' the sector is a key point of differentiation. For readers seeking to understand how mining companies interpret and interact with the communities and interests around their operations, this book provides invaluable insight and analysis.

On 25 January 2019 hundreds of people perished when a tailings dam at an iron ore mine in Brazil failed catastrophically.Liquified waste suffocated workers in seconds, and filled the valley below with sludge, destroying lives and livelihoodsforever. The Brumadinho tragedy captured the world's attention, and triggered the Global Tailings Review, a multistakeholder process co-convened by the United Nations-backed Principles for Responsible Investment, the United Nations Environment Program, and the world's largest mining companies through the International Council on Mining andMetals. The review was intended to learn lessons from past failures to prevent future disasters. This book describes the politicsof the process from the perspective of two expert panellists who supported the independent chair in drafting a new globaltailings Standard. It provides an insider account of the review, its key achievements and its numerous flaws. Hopkins and Kemp document in forensic detail how the Standard came to represent a step change, yet also falls short. The book providesunique insights into the extent to which the mining industry wielded power to serve its own self-interest. It also describeshow different stakeholders in the process sought to counter the collective power of mining companies, and how other globalevents, from COVID-19 to the destruction of ancient Aboriginal caves in the Juukan Gorge in Australia, shaped the finaloutcome. The mining industry largely got what it wanted and in doing so limit edits ability to overcome its own crisis ofcredibility.

The handbook presents a discussion around six themes as separate chapters (local community development, water, pasture, dust, resettlement and displacement, and artisanal and small-scale mining); with gender and governance issues cutting across all chapters. It also offers several recommendations for how local government, national government, and mining companies and developers operating in Mongolia can translate these findings into actions that will support responsible minerals development in the future.The research was funded by the Australian Government Overseas Aid program through the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade.