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On June 24th HDI/Continental Minerals held its Annual General Meeting in Vancouver, Canada. Tibetans and their supporters worldwide took action to pressure the company to immediately withdraw from Tibet.

VANCOUVER-- Tsering Lama, National Director of SFT Canada spoke at the HDI/Continental Minerals' Annual General Meeting and delivered 1,000 letters signed by people from around the world who oppose the mining operation in Tibet. Tibet supporters also staged a dramatic mock "die", draping themselves in Tibetan flags to symbolize the devistating consquences mining poses in Chinese-occupied Tibet.

Click here to read SFT Canada's Press Release.
Click here to read CTV News coverage.
Click here to watch the CTV News video.

TORONTO-- Tibetans and supporters held a dramatic protest against Hunter Dickinson’s subsidiary Continental Minerals in front of the Toronto Stock Exchange in Canada. HDI/Continental Minerals is listed on the stock exchange (TSX: KMK).

Click here to watch video from the protest.

DHARAMSALA, INDIA-- Tibetans and supporters stage a die-in to protest mining in Tibet by HDI/Continental Minerals. The action was part of the global campaign demanding HDI/Continental Minerals immediately cease mining operations in Tibet.

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Click here to read the press release.

LONDON-- Students for a Free Tibet UK delivered a letter to Standard Bank Plc, urging the bank to immediately withdraw financing from HDI/Continental Minerals' Tibet operation.

Click here to read more on the SFT UK blog.

Pulled out of Tibet:

Zhongkai Company:
Chinese mining company, Zhongkai, pulled out of its proposed gold mine expansion in Mangkang county, Tibet on June 8th after over two months of protests and blockading by some 500 Tibetans who were protecting the sacred mountain where the mine operated.

GobiMin:
Pulled out of its Malonglang, Copper-Zinc project.

TVI:
TVI announced that it was pulling out of Tibet on March 4, 2008.

Dynasty:
Dynasty Gold pulled out of Qinghai project “Red Valley” announced on Jan 24, 2008.

 

On June 20, 2009-- Tibetans and their supporters protest in the lead up to Vancouver-based Continental Minerals annual shareholders’ meeting on Wednesday, June 24th to intensify pressure on the company to cease mining operations in Chinese-occupied Tibet.

Members of the public were invited to sign letters to the company, calling for its immediate withdraw from Tibet.

Click here to download the letter.
Click here to watch the video from today's protest.
Click here to view more photos.

On May 4-5, 2009 -- Tibetans and their supporters protested HDI/Continental Minerals at the Hard Assets Investment Conference in NYC and distributed hundreds of open letters to conference participants and mining company executives.

Download and read the open letter.

On March 1, 2009 -- Seven members of Students for a Free Tibet and local Tibetan students staged a mock die-in at the Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada Mining Convention in Toronto. Targeting the Hunter Dickinson booth, they unfurled a fifteen foot long banner that read "HDI: Stop Mining in Tibet" and handed out flyers to the convention members while chanting "Tibet belongs to Tibetans," and "Hunter Dickinson: stop mining in Tibet." Outside, several hundred Tibetans braved the cold and protested at the entrance of the Metro Convention Centre for nearly four hours.

Read the mining press release from the protest here.
Read media coverage of the protest.
Watch the video of the die-in at Hunter Dickinson's booth.
View pictures on SFT's flickr account.