sustainability in mining december 2011

Effective integrated frameworks for assessing mining ...

May 28, 2018· The objectives of this research are to review existing methods used for assessing mining sustainability, analyze the limited prior research that has evaluated the methods, and identify key characteristics that would constitute an enhanced sustainability framework that would serve to improve sustainability reporting in the mining industry. Five of the most relevant frameworks were …

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Why sustainability will be a key issue to the mining ...

Mar 12, 2020· As the authors of the 'Mining and Climate Change: A Review and Framework for Analysis' paper point out, one of the two formal data sources explicitly cited by the law was a strategic environmental assessment commissioned by the El Salvador government in 2011 to address the fact it had access to so little data about how mining impacts the ...

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Environmental, Health, and Safety Guidelines

Disclaimer: The Environmental, Health, and Safety (EHS) Guidelines have been translated into Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian and Spanish for your convenience. Reasonable efforts have been made to provide an accurate translation. The official text is the English version of the Guidelines. Any discrepancies or differences created in the translation are not binding and have no legal effect for ...

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Deep Sea Mining - Massachusetts Institute of Technology

(Phys.org, 2011). However, the economic viability of deep sea mining is still questionable. If the environmental and financial factors were cleared, then deep sea mining would definitely be a feasible option for the long term. Implementation Details. In order for deep sea mining to be implemented, suitable sites must be found.

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Sustainability - About - Cameco

Sustainability and ESG matters have been an important focus at Cameco for many years and we have a strong performance record. This update provides reporting on 2019 data indicators compared to 2018. Despite weak market conditions, Cameco continues to hold safety of our workforce and the public, social responsibility, and protection of the ...

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Sustainability in Mining: December 2011

Dec 20, 2011· Thursday, 8 December 2011 7 Steps for assessing Sustainability in Mining These are the 7 steps for assessing Sustainable Mining as set out by the IISD (International Institute of Sustainable Development - Link)

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Environment & sustainability - 06 December 2019 | Global ...

Dec 06, 2019· The latest Environment & sustainability news on 06 December 2019. ... Friday 06 December 2019 16:04. Canadian mining company Mandalay Resources owns and operates the Costerfield gold-antimony project southeast of Bendigo in …

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Managing mining for sustainable development

2 Mining and sustainable development 25 3 Impacts of mining during the life of a mine 29 3.1 Mineral exploration phase 30 3.2 Mine development phase: mine design and construction 30 3.3 Mining operations phase: mining and mineral processing 34 3.4 Mine closure phase 37 4 Orienting legal frameworks towards sustainable development 39

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Green Mining - Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Research and development of new green mining technology in the areas of processing, clean water, and energy efficiency will be continued (Green Mining Initiative, 2011). For example, since the 1980s, Australia has been allocating millions of dollars towards mining research and this research has aided in the development of new, more efficient ...

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Mining industry and sustainable development: time for ...

Jun 09, 2017· Sustainable Development and Mining. Mining impacts always existed and we still have mines opened in Roman times with acid mine drainage, waste piles, and environmental contamination. Large-scale mining grew during the 19th and 20th centuries with impacts neglected and hidden costs.

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Potential Environmental Impacts of Quarrying Stone in ...

water exploitation, mining, and quarrying (Drew, 1999) (fi g. 2). Minerals associated with karst have been exploited for many years. Some car-bonate rocks contain valuable supplies of water, oil, and gas, may weather to form bauxite deposits, and are associated with manganese and phosphate rock (guano). Coal is often found within thick carbon-

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Awards - PDAC

The PDAC Awards Committee is made up of industry leaders who have a variety of different roles, skills, experience, and important professional networks. Dating back to 1977, PDAC Awards are a way to acknowledge exceptional contributors, in up to seven categories. Recipients are celebrated at a prestigious Awards Gala every year in March during ...

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Sustainability report - Home | SQM

This is the fourth edition of SQM's Sustainability Report, which reports on the Company's performance in community, environmental and financial matters for the period between January 1, 2012 and December 31, 2012. The prior report, published in May 2012, detailed the Company's performance during 2011. See Report 2012.

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Industry Agenda Mining & Metals in a Sustainable World …

Nov 25, 2014· Mining & Metals in a Sustainable World 2050 5 Executive Summary The world is transforming – mining and metals can shape its own agenda Mining and metals are essential to global economic and social development and are connected to almost all industry value chains. As an inherently long-term investment, a long-term perspective is crucial.

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Mining Journal | The leading publication for global mining ...

Sep 16, 2021· Sustainability. Research Reports. For instant-access to all of Mining Journal Intelligence Research, subscribe to Premium. Read the 2021 Global Leadership Report 2021: C …

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OZM Sustainability Report - A modern mining company

of our sustainability opportunities and challenges and our progress in managing them. repOrt ScOpe, bOundary and data cOllectiOn This report details OZ Minerals' sustainability performance for the year to 31 December 2011. We produce a sustainability report annually, with our previous sustainability report addressing the 2010 calendar year.

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Agnico Eagle Mines Limited - Operations - Operations ...

The LaRonde mine extension, the portion of the mine below level 245, achieved commercial production in December 2011 and under current mine plans is expected to be in production through 2030. In 2003, the Company acquired LZ5, which lies adjacent to and west of the LaRonde mine and was exploited by open pit mining by its previous operator.

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5 Principles of a Sustainable Business Model

Dec 05, 2011· Systems theory identifies 5 elements for a sustainable business model: Diversity, modularity, openness, slack resources and matching cycles. Tima Bansal is Executive Director at the Network for Business Sustainability and Professor at Ivey Business School. She wrote this article in 2011; see her 2020 article on sustainable business models for more recent perspectives.

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GRI based sustainability reporting in India - Green Clean ...

Sep 28, 2011· Top 10 Reporting Countries 2011. GRI provide framework to report organization's sustainability performance. It is known as the sustainability reporting framework and consists of three parts – (1) Sustainability Reporting Guidelines, (2) Sector Supplements and (2) The Technical Protocol – Applying the Report Content Principles.

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Cobalt and the Congo: A Sustainable Green Energy ...

Apr 13, 2021· Human and environmental welfare and protection should be the sacrosanct principles driving business, technological development, and scientific breakthroughs. Failing to improve cobalt mining conditions in the DR Congo is an injustice to the people in eastern DRC. A sustainable green energy revolution cannot be built on human exploitation.

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Sustainability | An Open Access Journal from MDPI

Sustainability is an international, cross-disciplinary, scholarly, peer-reviewed and open access journal of environmental, cultural, economic, and social sustainability of human beings. It provides an advanced forum for studies related to sustainability and sustainable development, and is …

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The SustainAbility Institute by ERM

The SustainAbility Institute is ERM's primary platform for thought leadership, helping decode complexities, sparking conversation and accelerating ERM's commitment to shape a sustainable future with the world's leading organizations during this decade of action.

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Sustainability FY20 Report - Fortescue Metals Group

Mining and Metals (ICMM). This report captures our operations including ... since 2011. Our people Fundamentally, our approach to sustainability is driven by our people ... At a ceremony in December, nine Trade Up participants from the inaugural intake joined 15 other

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Benefits and Limitations of Industry Self-Regulation for ...

BY DANIEL CASTRO | DECEMBER 2011 Self-regulation, in all its myriad permutations, is a vital part of today's global economy. Diverse industries, such as health care, higher education, fashion, advertising, mining, marine fishing, professional sports, and nuclear power, have used self-regulatory processes to govern industry practices.1

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A clean-energy future is reliant on sustainable mining and ...

A clean-energy future is reliant on sustainable mining and cement. The mining and cement industries contribute over 10% of the world's CO₂ emissions but demand in both industries remains high. It is, therefore, imperative that decarbonisation efforts should be …

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Sustainability report - Alcoa

this report from sustainability consultant Net Balance Management Group Pty Ltd (Net Balance) and self-declare the report to be compliant with the GRI G3 guidelines to a B Level. A GRI Index is provided at the back of this report. This report covers the activities of Alcoa of Australia for a two year period from 1 January 2011 to 31 December 2012

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Sustainability 3.0: Tapping into New Opportunities ...

Sustainability 3.0: Tapping into New Opportunities the European Commission since early 2011 to introduce new laws that require companies to report on their environmental, social, human rights and governance impacts based on defined indicators. Some countries have already opted to put their own national rules in place. For example in France,

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IFC Sustainability Framework

Jan 01, 2012· The 2006 edition of IFC's Sustainability Framework applies to investments that go through IFC's initial credit review process from April 30, 2006 to December 31, 2011. Investments made prior to April 30, 2006 are subject to the Safeguard Policies .

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Balancing Competing Demands of Mining Community and ...

Balancing Competing Demands of Mining, Community and Environment to Achieve Sustainable Development in the Mining Sector, Final Report, December 2010 (Printed in February 2011) The results of this project provide a beneficial database of the policies, regulations, and technical guidelines for mining sectors among APEC economies.

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Sustainable Development Goals kick off with start of new ...

The Paris Conference on climate change in December is seen by many as the first test of political will to implement the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.

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Home .:. Sustainable Development Knowledge Platform

Sustainable Development Goals The 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are the world's best plan to build a better world for people and our planet by 2030. Adopted by all United Nations Member States in 2015, the SDGs are a call for action by all countries - poor, rich and middle-income - to promote prosperity while protecting the environment.

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AbaCore Capital Holdings, Inc. – Global Vision. Local Mission.

Jul 30, 2019· December 27, 2011 by Rico Delos Reyes · Published December 27, 2011 · Last modified May 29, 2019 Abacus Consolidated sees 2012 as banner year on mining, real estate boost

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Social impact assessment in the mining sector: Review and ...

Aug 01, 2018· The contribution of the mining sector in the SDG achievement is discussed in a report by the Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment, the Word Economic Forum, and the United Nations (CCSI et al., 2016). The report shows how mining companies could integrate into core business actions and objectives that contribute to the achievement of SDG.

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SUSTAINABLE MINING - Austrade

Sustainable Development in Mining (2011). It was developed by the Australian centre for sustainable mining Practices with the support of the leading Practice sustainable development Program for the mining Industry steering committee. the steering committee involved leading experts from university

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Building a sustainable future for Africa's extractive ...

development, held in Addis Ababa in December 2011, under the theme "Building a sustainable future for Africa's extractive industry – from vision to action". ... A sustainable and well-governed mining sector that effectively garners and deploys resource rents and that is safe, healthy, gender and ethnically inclusive, environmentally ...

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