Save Rosia Montana Campaign

1. Mining and mining related campaigns:

www.nodirtygold.org
This is an all time favourite. Features great facts about what it actually costs to produce gold and has a rich section on communities from all over the world fighting against dirty gold mining projects.

Cafod the offical overseas development and relief agency of the Catholic Church in England and Wales and part of the Caritas International Federation has launched an excellent campaign on the true impact of gold mining on communities. So Get involved, learn about the true cost of gold and take action!

www.miningwatch.ca
A Canadian-based NGO working towards changing public policy and mining practices to ensure the health of individuals, communities and ecosystems in Canada and around the world.

www.halifaxinitiative.org
A Canadian-based NGO whose mission is to fundamentally transform the international financial system, and its institutions, namely the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, and Export Credit Agencies. By doing so, the aim is to achieve poverty eradication, environmental sustainability and the full realization of human rights.

http://recyclemycellphone.org/
Mobile phones contain metals and amongst others, gold. Quite a lot of it, actually. Each year thousands of tones worth of mobile phones are thrown away. Just like that. And so is the gold. Recycling is possible. This website is a great initiative for recycling mobile phones in the USA. High time to make the recycling of mobile phones and computers mandatory all around the world. Just imagine all the gold and thus the communities, natural environments etc. we would save ... and all that toxic waste. A minimal effort that could change a lot!

www.ran.org
The Rainforest Action Network hits right where it hurts. Some of the most effective campaign ideas have come from this NGO

www.cyanidefreerhodopi.org/index_en.php
This is the website of communities struggling against the Ada Tepe gold mine near the town of Krumovgrad. This is a project being proposed by the Canadian company Dundee Precious Metals (DPM) with its Bulgarian branch Balkan Mineral and Mining (BMM). This project is the first step in the development of open-pit gold mining with the use of cyanide leaching in the East Rhodopi mountains region, where the “Khan Kroum” gold deposit is found. This region in south-east Bulgaria is unique with its landscapes, Mediterranean climate, abundant historical monuments and exceptional biological diversity.

www.bankwatch.org
This is the website of the CEE Bankwatch Network; an international non-governmental organisation (NGO) with member organisations currently from 11 countries across the central and eastern European region. If you want to have hard facts and know what's going on in the CEE region; then that's the website to hit. It also contains lots of valuable information on mining and mining proposals mushrooming in the CEE region.

www.proact-campaigns.net/slovakia2006/mining_operations.html
This is a great action alert website against Tourigan Gold Corporation's attempt to turn historic Kremnica in Slovakia into an open cast gold mine.

http://www.stava1985.it/centro_doc_eng.html and http://www.wise-uranium.org/mdafst.html
On a summer day in 1985 a fluorite tailings dam of Prealpi Mineraia failed at Stava, Trento, Italy. 200,000 m3 of tailings flowed 4.2 km downstream at a speed of up to 90 km/h, killing 268 people and destroying 62 buildings. The total surface area affected was 43.5 hectares. Access these two websites to witness via images what a tailings dam failure can give rise to.

Does mining really have "no significant environmental effects"? A short video by Alley Crawford with music by Perpetual Dream Theory/Gary Bourgeois available on-line in Quicktime video for dial-up connections (56k): http://www.miningwatch.ca/updir/mining_56K_dial-up_stream.mov and for broadband connections (512k): http://www.miningwatch.ca/updir/mining_512K_stream.mov

www.theminingnews.org
News on Mining’s Impact from Communities and Activists Worldwide

2. Campaigning - making a change:

www.earthrights.org
Using law and the power of people in defense of human rights and the environment.
If you think that’s just talk – then access this website, see and think again.

www.foeeurope.org
Friends of the Earth Europe: for the people – for the planet – for the future

www.globalwitness.org
Global Witness campaigns aim to achieve real change by challenging established thinking on seemingly intractable global issues. They work to highlight the link between the exploitation of natural resources and human rights abuses, particularly where the resources such as timber, diamonds and oil are used to fund and perpetuate conflict and corruption.

www.greenpeace.org
No introduction needed

3. Rosia Montana:

www.rosiamontana.org
This is the home website of the Save Rosia Montana campaign. If you want to learn about how a local initiative turned into a national and international struggle to Save Rosia Montana, then that's website to visit.

www.fanfest.ro
Part of the struggle to Save Rosia Montana is 'FanFest', a protest concert taking place each year in August. This is the website for the event and you can also see what happened since the Festival's inception.

www.mindbomb.ro
The 'Mindbomers' are Romania's equivalent to 'Adbusters' - with a difference. This is an artist initiative that uses public spaces and the medium of the poster to transmit their social messages. The 'Mindbomers' joined the Save Rosia Montana campaign a long time ago and you can access their contribution to the campaign via their website. Importantly: take out the time to read their 'manifest'!

http://enr.clearerchannel.org/media/ifi/buryingpeopleforprofit.mpg
Do you want to see what Rosia Montana is about? Then download ‘Burying people for Profit’ a documentary made by Friends of the Earth Europe in 2003

4. Mining Industry and Mining News websites:

www.gabrielresources.com
It’s good to know who your ‘friends’ are ...

www.truestory.ro
… And to know what they are up to

www.tsx.com
This is the Toronto Stock Exchange. Many controversial miners are traded there. So is Gabriel Resources. Find out their share price, who is buying and selling Gabriel shares and much more. Access the site, type Gabriel’s ticker symbol ‘GBU’ in the ‘Get Quote’ box on the left, hit ‘enter’ and off you go!

www.sedar.com
This is the official site that provides access to most public securities documents and information filed by public companies and investment funds with the Canadian Securities Administrators (CSA) in the SEDAR filing system. If you want to know what Gabriel is up to, access ‘Company Profiles’ and go for ‘g’ and then ‘Gabriel Resources’. Lots of useful information you won’t find on Gabriel’s website …about Gabriel.

www.newmont.com
THE gold company - as Newmont modestly call itself is also Gabriel’s single largest shareholder. Rest assured that this is not for no reason. Check out their ‘social responsibility’ section, it makes you cry.

www.egoldfields.com
Once upon a time Gabriel and European Goldfields were one big concession. Then they were split into two and European Goldfields became Gabriel’s sister. The later is the most advanced in terms of development stage. So if you think that the struggle for Saving Rosia Montana is only about Rosia Montana, then think again and look at the next link below.

www.carpathiangold.com/site06/
This is perhaps serious business ahead and definitely one to look out for. Check out their concession map!

www.einnews.com/CentralEuropeRegion/newsfeed-central-europe-mining
That’s a seriously ‘stay tuned’ news one

www.northernminer.com
Hard-core bullish mining news

www.mineweb.net
The Gabriel Resource Rebels are much loved by mineweb, a mining news website trying to be intelligent

5. Romanian NGO news portals: