A graphic that accompanied a report on a new atlas of international mining and oil companies (“The map that shames the world”, World, 16 August, page 18), contained an entry on the Chirano gold mine in Ghana, which said that it has been marked by long running compensation disputes and claims of pollution and human rights abuses. Kinross Gold Corporation has asked us to make clear that compensation disputes date from 2004, that these are now being resolved, and the other claims also precede their acquisition of the mine in 2010.
Because of an editing error, an article, “Convenience stores turn the corner” (Business, last week, page 41) referred to increases to the minimum wage as part of the Living Wage campaign costing store group members millions of pounds. That should have been the government’s “national living wage”, which is nothing to do with the Living Wage campaign.
“The Greek god of trouble” (New Review, last week, page 9) carried a footnote that said Yanis Varoufakis would be taking part in a Guardian Live event on Wednesday 23 October. That should have been Friday 23 October.
As a result of delaying the printing of the Scottish edition of the Observer last Sunday in the interests of publishing the result of the Scotland v Italy Rugby match, a transmission error in the production process led to an old version of the front page being used, which meant that the French train attack story was partially duplicated and the beginning of the Shoreham plane crash story was missing. Our apologies to readers in Scotland.
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