Directory of Community Guidance on Agreements Relating to Agriculture or Forestry Investments
While there are a number of existing resources that can assist communities and their advocates in their interactions with investors over land from negotiating better agreements with investors, to monitoring whether investors fulfill the terms of their agreements these resources are not always easy to find. CCSI has created a detailed directory that lists relevant guides and other documents, provides links to the original documents, and includes brief descriptions of their content. This directory, provided as a Google document, is available here; it can be viewed online, downloaded, emailed, and printed.
ERM outlines the true cost of mine closure
A man takes a soil sample at a mine site. Credit: BartCo/iStock.
Mining has long been the source of materials for modern society. It also has been critical in the establishment of associated secondary and tertiary economies. However, mines have a finite life, and mine closure poses a material risk to mining companies, other dependent industries and local economies. To manage this risk, there appears to be a shared recognition of a need to better integrate closure into the overall mining life cycle; designing and operating with closure in mind. Unless mining companies think more strategically about closure, the long lasting trail of liabilities will continue to mount.
This information is available on our website at www.newcrest.com
1 All figures in this document relate to businesses of the Newcrest Mining Limited Group (‘Newcrest’ or ‘the Group’) for the 6 months ended
31 December 2020 (‘current period’) compared with the 6 months ended 31 December 2019 (‘prior period’), except where otherwise stated. All references to ‘the Company’ are to Newcrest Mining Limited.
2 Technical and scientific information: The technical and scientific information contained in this document relating to Wafi-Golpu and Lihir was reviewed and approved by Craig Jones, Newcrest’s Chief Operating Officer PNG, FAusIMM and a Qualified Person as defined in National Instrument 43- 101 – Standards of Disclosure for Mineral Projects (NI 43-101). The technical and scientific information contained in this document relating to Cadia was reviewed and approved by Philip Stephenson, Newcrest’s Chief Operating Officer Australia and Americas, FAusIMM and a Q
By Gail Moss2021-01-26T16:11:00+00:00
The Church of England Pensions Board (CEPB) and the Council on Ethics of the Swedish National Pension Funds have led investors in setting a 2030 deadline for reforms to the mining sector.
The announcement came on the second anniversary of the Brumandinho disaster, when a tailings dam near a mine in south-east Brazil collapsed, killing 270 people, and creating a river of iron ore waste which contaminated the countryside.
The disaster prompted the formation of the Mining & Tailings Safety Initiative (MTSI), a group of over a hundred investors in the extractive industries with a total $20trn (€16.3trn) in assets under management, who seek to precipitate change within the sector via engagement with companies and affected communities.