Mining Sustainability

Impact and benefit agreements (IBAs) are legally binding and privately negotiated deals between resource development firms and local/indigenous communities, which ...Read more

The international mining industry is faced with challenges arising from the connection between social acceptance and compliance to laws in ...Read more

Cumulative water impact refers to the cumulative impact of multiple stressors on a shared aquatic system over time. A catchment, ...Read more

Greenfield projects involve infrastructure construction in areas that have been left untouched. In cases where such development takes place in ...Read more

Planning for closure means a continuous process of designing the cessation of activities and land rehabilitation. Regulatory expectations are legal ...Read more

The evolution of sustainable mining requires a paradigm shift from the conventional linear approach to the circular economy. In the ...Read more

Acid Mine Drainage (AMD) is among the most difficult eco-hydrological problems confronting the worldwide mining industry. Essentially, Acid mine drainage ...Read more

The integration of BNG in the environmental management plan (EMP) of a new mining operation represents a key development of ...Read more

The freshwater use in mineral processing is the amount of the natural surface or groundwater that is used to separate ...Read more

Large scale open pit mining results in considerable land disturbance to mine for minerals in surface level. The progressive rehabilitation ...Read more