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Zine: Global resistance to Glencore

A pocket guide to Glencore, a UK-Swiss mining company with a toxic global footprint, and how you can support the resistance.

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Published: Jun 5, 2026
Pages: 11

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RESISTANCE TO GLENCORESTOP BLOOD COAL CERREJÓN, COLDAN FROM DECOLONIZE NOW!
NO Conta mina cionDE The Agua Rica project is unviable, not only because of the pollution it would cause to the water, soil, and air in the region, but also because of the risk of landslides on the town and the direct attack on the glacial and periglacial environment of the Nevado del Aconquija. ARGENTINA //
BRAZIL// bauxite COMMUNITY // Oriximiná, Terra Santa, and Faro in Pará state.
COLOMBIA // coalTabaco, La Guajira Department. MINE // Cerrejón, founded in 1976 is Latin America's largest coal mine.
LISM TION CLEANSING FLICTUS BRUTALITY HENEnergy US
Page 6IMPACTS cobalt. AIR AND LAND POLLUTION // Contamination of agricultural land, respiratory diseases.
PERU // copperCOMMUNITY // Puerto Huarmey, a fishing town in the Ancash region. MINE // Antamina, located in the Andean mountains, is one of the world's largest copper/zinc mines a joint venture of BHP, Glencore, Teck Resources and Mitsubishi Corporation.
GLENCORE Y SEGUIMOSLUCHANDO Y LA VIDA
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GLOBAL RESISTAAs Glencore's mining frontier expands under the banner of the energy transition and the search for critical minerals, the communities make evident that this comes at a profound cost-undermining people's health and cultures and driving the destruction of ecosystems in extraction zones. This is not a solution for the ecological crises. 60°
NCE TO GLENCOREGlencore shrouds its operations in secrecy, and for good reason: the details painstakingly brought to light by community activists and environmental justice campaigners paint a damning picture. From the bribery scandals in the DRC, the murder of anti-mining activists in the Philippines, the poisoning of water supplies in Peru, and the abuse of workers in its mines the world over, we can see that whilst Glencore's operations might be diverse, the common thread that ties them together is an exploitative business model based on crossing ethical lines in the pursuit of ever greater profits. SALON

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GLOBAL RESISTA

ENABLING GENOCIDE ARGENTINA // copper, gold, silver & molybdenum BRAZIL // bauxite COLOMBIA // coal

As Glencore's mining frontier expands under the banner of the energy transition and the search for critical minerals, the communities make evident that this comes at a profound cost-undermining people's health and cultures and driving the destruction of ecosystems in extraction zones. This is not a solution for the ecological crises.

ENABLING GENOCIDE

Glencore has been named as one of the key companies complicit in Israel's economy of genocide

- United Nations report, 'From Economy of Occupation to Economy of Genocide', July 2025

ARGENTINA // copper, gold, silver & molybdenum

"Every Saturday the community in Andalgalá hold a protest walk opposing the Agua Rica project which threatens their glaciers and water sources. "We will continue to resist Glencore's MARA Agua Rica -Alumbrera project until justice is done."

- Melina Zocchi
Follow Asamblea el Algarrobo:
#AndalgalaResiste #GlencoreMata

BRAZIL // bauxite

"We are trying to preserve the lungs of the earth. Please help us protect our communities - we are the ones protecting all of you. Do not just protect rivers, animals and nature. Protect us because we are the people living in the forest. We are the people who are protecting nature itself."

- Silvia Rocha, member of Quilombola communities affected by mining in the Brazilian Amazon

The UK-Swiss mining giant Glencore describes itself as a vertically- integrated natural resource company, meaning that it is involved at every stage of the supply chain of its products, from extraction and processing through to marketing and trading. Its operations include metals particularly copper, nickel and cobalt - as well as coal, oil, gas, and agricultural products. Operating in over 35 countries Glencore is one of the world's largest mining companies, in 2025 reporting revenue of $247.5 billion - up 7 percent year-on-year.

TABALO RESISTE Cerrejon Incumple

COLOMBIA // coal

Glencore Rebuild Tabaco now! Stop ISDS against Colombia! "We have done everything that is in our hands to stop mining companies from settling here... 50 years later, we continue to resist... We would like you, the international community, to join our struggles, to join our march... and support us so that we can continue."

- José Julio Perez, member of the Tabaco community affected by the Cerrejón coal mine