The mining industry is one of the most enduring and dominant forms of resource development in our modern history. The industry itself is fraught with a number of challenges that oftentimes place the mine’s ability to operate in jeopardy. These risks include a poor social license to operate, health and environmental effects of the operation, damaged reputational capital, poor stakeholder relations, lack of sustainability reporting and Corporate Social Responsibility Efforts. It has been demonstrated by best-in-class operators, that a focused and actionable strategy to execute sustainable mining will yield long-term returns and substantially increase the likelihood of profitable operations
Key Areas of Responsible and Sustainable Operations
Ecosystem and Biodiversity Preservation. What aspects of the mine’s operations have the embedded potential for near term release? How can that release be anticipated and corrected?
Resource Use and Waste. Has your organization undertaken a Life Cycle Analysis to determine a responsible methodology for reducing waste and optimizing resource use?
Health and Safety. What is your organization’s plan to promote the health and safety of your skilled workforce?
Community. How is your organization poised to anticipate the magnitude and complexity of community relationship building to ensure a social license to operate can be secured for the long term? What opportunities exist to learn from past operations wherein proactive strategies at community capital building such as signed social responsibility agreements can be negotiated?
Energy and Climate Change. How is your organization poised to contribute to emissions reduction goals of countries and regions in which you seek to operate?
Corporate Governance and Sustainability Reporting. How are you implementing sustainability within your organization? How well do your stakeholders know of the endeavors your organization has made in ensuring sustainable operations? How can metavû bolster your ability to run a profitable mining operation?
Our Competencies in Mining:
Life Cycle Analysis, scope and boundary condition assessment for the reduction of environmental impacts and resource use;
Analysis, Development, and Implementation of corporate sustainability strategies aimed at improving the organization’s social license to operate, reputational capital, and stakeholder relations;
Community and Stakeholder Engagement strategies, aimed at identifying the key needs and subsistence requirements of the communities in which the organization seeks to operate. Negotiate agreements between key community, indigenous leaders, and company representatives to ensure amenable rights to operate; and
Definition of an actionable climate strategy, the implementation and demonstration of which will bolster the organizations ability to operate in areas that have restricted greenhouse gas emissions.
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