Canadian mining company Continental Minerals Inc., a subsidiary of Hunter Dickinson Inc is leading the effort to exploit Tibet' gold and copper resources. Following several years of exploratory drilling at Xietongmen mine near the Tibetan capital city Lhasa, Continental is currently awaiting permits and financing to begin the first phases of production. We need your help to stop Continental Minerals Inc. from partnering with the Chinese government in looting Tibet's natural resources.

Send a letter now to Continental Mineral's CEO, David Copeland.

Students for a Free Tibet Canada and the Canada Tibet Committee have repeatedly expressed concerns to Continental's executives over the company's activities in Tibet. Our members have spoken out at Continental's annual meetings, urging the company to withdraw from Tibet immediately. The company has yet to address our concerns.

Learn more about SFT's Stop Mining Tibet campaign. In the coming months, SFT will be intensifying pressure on the company to withdraw from Tibet.

The Chinese government is aggressively promoting mining in Tibet in order to profit off Tibet's mineral wealth with little to no benefits going to the Tibetan people. Resource exploitation is also a means of solidifying control over the region. The unprecedented protests that spread across the Tibetan plateau this past March and April were a clear expression of the Tibetan people's desire for human rights and freedom from Chinese rule. Chinese authorities responded to these protests with brute force, killing hundreds of innocent Tibetans.

Today, Tibet remains under military lockdown with thousands imprisoned or missing. It is immoral for Canadian companies to profit off the Tibetan people's land at a time when Tibetans themselves have no say over how their natural resources will be used. Given the level of repression in Tibet, local Tibetans are in no position to give their free, prior, and informed consent to a mining project at this time. Furthermore, mine operations pose devastating consequences to the Tibetan culture, livelihood and local environment.