A new film [“Mine Your Own Business”] accuses well-heeled northern environmentalists of opposing mining while ignoring its social benefits...the film was substantially funded by the Canadian mining company, Gabriel Resources. [The film's] thesis is that...minerals extraction is vital to economic development....[But] the big, global, miners have mostly kept out of the current skirmish...Several of them collaborate closely with the big environmental NGOs...And BHP Billiton, Rio Tinto, Xstrata and Anglo American…are also acutely aware that the worst threats they face don’t come from the organised green lobby. Rather, they come from human rights activists, some regulatory bodies and, above all, numerous communities whose interests this film purports to represent. [also refers to Barrick Gold]