The mining and metals industry faces global consolidation and the need to reduce its environmental impact. It must address the potential for future resource depletion, incorporate life-cycle thinking into the development and closure of mines, and manage its reputation.
Issues
- Reputation management
- Depletion of natural resources
- Bio-diversity and environmental impacts of resource exploration, processing/production operations, and closure of mining operations
- Climate strategy and energy efficiency
- Workforce health and safety
- Sustainable project development and mine closure
- Community and NGO activism
Client examples
US-based mining company
We identified opportunities for improvement (and highlighted potential risks) in the company’s EHS culture, work processes (including management systems), organisational structure, systems and resources.
Global mining company
We carried out a review of the client’s existing health and safety management system at remote mining locations in south-east Asia, with a view to identifying potential performance improvements. We evaluated the effectiveness with which the system had been implemented, the health and safety department’s progress in performing its duties according to the company’s strategic plans, and the design and execution of selected health and safety programmes and processes (such as industrial-hygiene risk assessment and monitoring, occupational medical surveillance, injury and illness classification and reporting).
European metals association
We developed a framework for reporting and monitoring greenhouse gas emissions through a multi-client survey, providing recommendations for verification of emissions at corporate level. We helped to establish a steering committee for the effort and created a web-based reporting system to allow for company-specific reporting and regional and industry-sector-speci.c consolidation of data for this project.
South American mining subsidiary
We provided project-management support to the preparation of our Chilean client’s first sustainability report. We helped with the organisation of data reporting/collection of environmental, social, and economic information, and preparation of the report in accordance with the GRI standard, the UN Global Compact framework, guidelines from the International council on mining and metals, and a model developed by PricewaterhouseCoopers Chile.
