Global Reporting Initiative launches sustainability standard for mining at Indaba
On Thursday at the Mining Indaba conference in South Africa, the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), an international independent organization for impact reporting across sectors, held an event that launched its sustainability reporting standard for mining companies.
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Top 10 sustainability predictions for commodities in 2024
Mining News Pro - Global mining and metals sector consultancy CRU has released its top 10 sustainability predictions for commodity markets in 2024, covering topics that were already hot this year. These include reporting standards, nature conservation, climate action, carbon pricing and critical raw materials.
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Coronado Global Resources drives sustainability
Mining News Pro - Leading international metallurgical coal producer Coronado Global Resources has released its 2022 sustainability report.
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GRI presents sustainability reporting standard for mining companies
Mining News Pro - The Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), an international independent organization for impact reporting across sectors has proposed a new sustainability reporting standard for mining companies.
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Shallow-water mining in direct conflict with sustainability goals
Mining News Pro - In a recent study, researchers at the University of Helsinki suggest that mining in shallow marine areas is in direct conflict with international conservation and sustainability goals, as the activity poses severe environmental risks.
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How ‘weak sustainability’ helps miners contribute to the UN development goals
Mining News Pro - In a recent article in the journal Earth Science Systems and Society, an international research team describes how current mining practices could be improved and the sourcing and management of metals better aligned with the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SGDs).
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Newmont raises $1bn through mining industry’s first sustainability linked bond
Mining News Pro - Newmont has closed the mining industry’s first sustainability-linked bond, raising net proceeds of $992 million in a registered $1 billion public offering of senior notes issued at 2.6%.
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Newmont to sell first sustainability-linked bonds from a miner
Mining News Pro - Newmont Corp., one of the world’s largest gold miners, sold $1 billion of bonds giving it a financial incentive to cut emissions and improve corporate governance, the first company in the energy-intensive industry to issue such securities.
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Scientists want to engineer bacteria to sustainability mine rare earths
Mining News Pro - A new study published in Nature Communications describes a proof of principle for engineering a bacterium, Gluconobacter oxydans, that takes a first step towards meeting skyrocketing rare earth element demand in a way that matches the cost and efficiency of traditional thermochemical extraction and refinement methods and is clean enough to meet US environmental standards.
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Blockchain platform for sustainability compliance in extractive industries revitalized
Mining News Pro - Digital transparency company Everledger announced the launching of an improved blockchain-powered platform to make it easier for extractive industries and their clients to evidence their sustainability credentials and compliance with regulatory requirements.
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Mining firms reshape boardrooms as investors demand sustainability
Mining News Pro - Under fire after a string of high-profile disasters, mining firms are shaking up their boardrooms in response to criticism that they are failing to meet their own environmental, social, and governance standards.
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Eco-mining initiative to drive sustainability in Australia
Mining News Pro - The Minerals Council of Australia (MCA) has urged mining companies to uphold the values of a new environmental initiative introduced this month.
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Rio Tinto launches sustainability label for aluminium with blockchain
Mining News Pro - Rio Tinto announced the launching of START, a label aimed at setting a new traceability standard for the aluminium industry.
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Covid lessons help inform sustainability strategies for miners going forward
Mining News Pro - Law firm Webber Wentzel notes that key areas of focus for mining businesses this year will be to adopt the lessons learnt from the successful response to the Covid-19 pandemic, as well as other aspects of risk management within the industry; while continuing to build a culture of sustainability.
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Technology and sustainability are inextricably linked
Mining News Pro - Technology and sustainability go hand-in-hand, says Kumba Iron Ore technical and projects executive head Glen Mc Gavigan. “In my view, you can’t separate the two,” he adds.
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Battery metals traceability project launched to enhance sustainability of industry
Mining News Pro - Finland-based research, development and innovation organisation VTT says the success of electric vehicles (EVs) may be determined by production methods and information on the origins of battery materials in the future.
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Vulcan Energy strengthens European lithium project through sustainability initiatives
Mining News Pro - Vulcan Energy Resources has doubled its share price since its low point in March, when COVID-19 struck global markets.
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Sandvik sustainability focus on show at Zimbabwe remanufacture facility
Mining News Pro - Solar power is energising Sandvik Mining and Rock Technology’s facility in Zimbabwe, with the mining OEM saving around 400 t/y of carbon dioxide emissions, it says.
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Vale adds sustainability goals to long-term compensation
Mining News Pro - Brazilian miner Vale SA has included environmental, social and governance goals to the long-term variable compensation of its top management and resumed 2019 bonus payments.
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Lab-grown diamonds to get sustainability standard certification
Mining News Pro - Organizations behind lab-grown diamonds continue to push to conquer the market.
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Canadian Mining Sustainability Acquires Canadian Mining Suppliers
Mining News Pro - Canadian Mining Sustainability announces that it has acquired the assets and interests of Canadian Mining Suppliers a non-profit mining supply portal.
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Sungun Copper Complex Engineering and Industry Interface Manager;
Continuity of Sungun Copper Complex Cooperation with Tabriz University / Implementing Projects for Sustainability of Production and Utilizing New Technologies
Mining News Pro - Jangir Razavi, director of engineering affairs at Sungun Copper Complex, said: "Sungun Copper Complex co-operation with Tabriz University lasted for seven years, and during these years many projects have been carried out to ensure the sustainability of the production and use of modern technologies in this complex.
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Official: Sustainability, accountability, transparency centerpiece of MSC strategies in communications, social responsibilities
The 13th International Public Relations Symposium was held at the Iranian Mining News Agency- National Library Congress Center in Tehran (October 19-20), bringing together the chairman of the Iranian National Committee on Sustainable Development, secretary general of the International Public Relations Symposium, the president and board member of the International Public Relations Association (IPRA), a deputy economy minister and head of the privatization organization, secretary general of Iranian National Commission for UNESCO as well as a host of public relations experts and managers from across the country.
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