Sustainable development in miningA complete suite of tools?

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Mark HolmesProgram Officer - Environment, Health & Safety

BHP Billiton

Lihir Gold

MMG

ICMM member companies

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Barrick

Goldcorp

Teck

Vale

Mitsubishi Materials

Nippon Mining & Metals

Sumitomo Metal Mining

African Rainbow Minerals

AngloGold Ashanti

Gold Fields

Xstrata

Anglo American

Lonmin

Rio Tinto

Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold

Newmont

Australia

Brazil

Canada

Japan

South Africa

Switzerland

United Kingdom

United States

Member operations

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Interest at over 700 sites in ~60 countries

ICMM Sustainable Development Framework

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ICMM member commitments

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1. Implement ethical business practices and apply good corporate governance

2. Integrate SD in corporate decision- making

3. Uphold fundamental human rights

4. Manage risks based on sound science

5/6. Improve environment, health and safety performance continuously

7. Conserve biodiversity & conduct integrated land use planning

8. Apply materials and product stewardship

9. Contribute to community development

10. Publicly report, independently assure and engage openly and transparently

Mining and Protected Areas

Mining: Partnerships for Development

Climate Change

Mining and Indigenous Peoples

Mercury Risk Management

Transparency of Mineral Revenues

10 Principles for Sustainable Development 6 Position Statements

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Programs

Reporting & Assurance

Socio-economic Contribution

•Resource Endowment• Community

Environmental Contribution

Health & Safety• Worker• Community

Materials Stewardship

Mining and Metals ContributionAccountability &Continuous Learning

Communications Strategy and Administration

Core services

Associations Coordination Group

Reporting & Assurance:Accountability, Continuous Learning

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Systematic approaches to SD reporting

Robust assurance of SD reports to enhance credibility and trust

How/which SD efforts contribute to value creation/protection

Differentiate between companies SD efforts

Achieving greater transparency and accountability

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Socio-economic contribution (Resource Endowment): Mining: Partnerships for Development, Local Content, Minerals Taxation

Improving stakeholder alignment on strategies

Demonstrating actual and life cycle contribution

Collaboration among ICMM country-based members and other companies

Techniques to understand how investments investments bestcontribute to social & economic development

Socio-economic contribution (Community): Artisanal Small-scale Mining, Community Development, Human Rights, Indigenous Peoples

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Artisanal and Small-scale Mining

Strategic approach to community development

Human rights issues across operations

Enhancing relationships with Indigenous Peoples

Health & Safety:Zero Harm, Health Risk & Impact Assessment, Benchmarking

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Promoting strong and consistent leadership to eliminate fatalities

Developing a workplace culture that recognises all accidents and work-related illnesses as preventable

Community health issues in partnership with others

Improve health and safety performance and metrics in support of benchmarking

Materials Stewardship:Life Cycle Management, Chemicals Management, Market Access

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Lifecycle approach

Sound chemicals management to address HSE risks of commodities & process chemicals

Considering supply chain/value chain aspects

Ensuring sound science in regulatory decisions affecting market access

Environment:Biodiversity, Climate Change, Land Use, Water, Closure

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Improving environmental performance & enhancedunderstanding of key issues

Enhancing capacity and performance on key environmental challenges

Sharing of information and understanding with the conservation community

Improving alignment between stakeholders

Climate change policy

Environment: Biodiversity

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Section A – Introduction• Why biodiversity is valuable• Why mining companies should consider it• Importance of stakeholder engagement

Section B – Biodiversity Management in Operations • Project Development - Exploration, Pre-feasibility, Feasibility & Construction• Operational Phase - Associated infrastructure, impacts & opportunities• Closure Planning - Rehabilitation

Section C – Management, Assessment, Mitigation & Rehabilitation Systems, Tools & Processes

• EMS• ESIA• Stakeholder engagement• Mitigation, rehabilitation & enhancement tools

Case studiesChecklists

Environment: Biodiversity

• A case study compilation document of mining biodiversity conservation published as part of a dialogue between ICMM and the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)

• Dialogue objective to explore different aspects of biodiversity conservation in the mining and metals sector

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Other mining SD systems

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• Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada (PDAC) e.g. E3+ – A framework for responsible exploration

• Canadian Mining Association (MAC) e.g.Towards Sustainable Mining

• Minerals Council of Australia (MCA)

Ongoing biodiversity developments

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Discussion about mining’s contribution to conservation including the implications of:

•‘no net loss’ and ‘net positive impact

•Business and Biodiversity Offsets Program (BBOP)

•Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD)

•The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity (TEEB)

•Biodiversity affected by climate change

Questions

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• How is the mining industry contributing to sustainable development and a shift to a ‘green economy’?

• Are other tools required to help this transition

• What is missing from the current suite?

• Are there any issues that need to be addressed with greater urgency?

• What linkages are missing?

For further information please contact:

Mark Holmesmark.holmes@icmm.comwww.icmm.com