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Creating a Culture of ISO 26000 (CSR) for the Mining Industry: A Review
Published in Norhayati Zakaria, Flevy Lasrado, Embedding Culture and Quality for High Performing Organizations, 2019
Interestingly, in recent years, concerns about the sustainability of CSR in businesses have become an increasingly high-profile issue in many countries and industries, none more so than the mining industry (Jenkins and Yakovleva, 2006). In fact, mining provides input for other industrial sectors that is vital for sustaining the population’s wellbeing and the functioning of global economies (Mancini and Sala, 2018). Thus, responsible mining requires a company to engage with local communities throughout all stages of their operations, from exploration through to post-mining planning (Adey et al., 2011). In fact, the mining industry has started to pay serious attention to its environmental and social impacts. This has recently manifested itself in the formulation of CSR policies and strategies and a proliferation of CSR, environmental, sustainability, and community reporting (Jenkins, 2004).
Goldmining, dispossessing the commons and multi-scalar responses
Published in Diana Suhardiman, Alan Nicol, Everisto Mapedza, Water Governance and Collective Action, 2017
Didi Stoltenborg, Rutgerd Boelens
At present, the BOF is working on proposals for a new Mining Law, based on more equitable and ecologically sound management of land and water resources. Persuading the Mexican government to accept this will require forceful lobbying skills, a large network of influential partners and a well-balanced discourse. The above-mentioned local–national–global alliance that BOF is forging provides access to new strategic–political opportunities, not only in Cerro de San Pedro but also in other mining arenas in Mexico. In the Cerro de San Pedro case, where extraction is approaching the final stages, the main focus now is to try to reduce the damage done to the environment. Demanding ethically and ecologically responsible mining practices and waste cleaning, and enabling alternative local livelihood opportunities, such as ecological and cultural tourism, might provide the villagers with improved future job opportunities while also reducing the environmental impact.
Responsible mining
Published in Vladimir Litvinenko, Scientific and Practical Studies of Raw Material Issues, 2019
Taking up the definition of sustainable development, responsible mining should shape the presence, add value and keep doors open for future generation and provide them a plurality of options without comprising future abilities. Hereafter, thoughts and ideas for those areas are presented for sustainable mining practice. Afterwards, possibilities are shown to integrate discussed aspects into the mining engineering education.
Environmental improvement initiatives in the coal mining industry: maximisation of the triple bottom line
Published in Production Planning & Control, 2019
Timothy Laing, Arvind Upadhyay, Sushil Mohan, Nachiappan Subramanian
However, a few studies do review the impact on environmental performance of the mining industry. For example, cleaner production and its impact on the environmental performance has been studied by Basu and van Zyl (2006). The authors focused on minimising environmental impact such as waste minimisation, greater recycling, pollution control and waste disposal. The study is similar to that by Hilson and Nayee (2002), but with an added focus on environmental performance. Goodland (2012) proposed responsible mining by discussing how it can help to achieve both environmental sustainability and improved profits by encouraging the use of best practice that can reduce waste, inefficiency and conflicts. Most of the other studies on environmental performance improvements are in terms of offset activities to compensate for the damaging environmental impacts from the mining activities by funding projects external to their mining operations (Virah-Sawmy, Ebeling, and Taplin 2014). Some studies talk of broader sustainability practices. For example, Ranangen and Lindman (2017) develop general sustainability practices guidelines for Nordic mining industry. The guidelines focus on corporate governance, fair operation practices, economic aspects, human rights, labour practices, society and the environment.
An innovative cyber-physical system aimed at increasing productivity in the mining industry
Published in Mining Technology, 2022
W. S. Felsch, C. A. Ortiz, H. M. Lima, E. C. Rodovalho
Mining is an industry that uses equipment and technology intensively in its operations. Therefore, digital technologies are being implemented in the mining industry to improve operational efficiency and reduce environmental impacts and operational costs. In addition, responsible mining concepts are based on waste and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions reduction, allowing for better integration among new mining projects and society (Pimentel et al. 2016).