In This Review
- Introduction
- Social License to Mine
- The Concept
- Technical Papers
- Personal Perspective
- Corporate Social Responsibility
- Responsible Mining
- Sustainable Mining
- On-line Courses
- Network Optimization
Summary
This review provides an overview of responsible and sustainable mining. It looks at the terms, their meaning, and their use, and gives several links to publications and websites dealing with sustainable mining and development.
INTRODUCTION
Most mining companies seek a
social license to mine. Many mining companies have adopted the term
sustainable mining to spearhead their pursuit of a social license to mine. Some have gone further and have adopted the term
responsible mining to describe the way they operate.
In this review, we look at the terms, their meaning, their use and abuse, and point you to some of the better resources on the web that carry the topic further - and into any level of detail you may seek.
SOCIAL LICENSE TO MINE
THE CONCEPT
Ideally a mining company should secure the support of the people who live near and are affected by a mine. This concept is referred to as the social licence to mine.
Bluntly stated if a mining company does not have the support of the people impacted by the mine, they may never get to mine, or it will cost them a lot more to mine than it should.
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