Sustainable development in mining

1. Sustainable development in mining Mark Holmes Program Officer - Environment, Health & Safety A complete suite of tools? www.icmm.com

2. ICMM member companies BHP Billiton Lihir Gold MMG Australia African Rainbow Minerals AngloGold Ashanti Gold Fields South Africa Vale Brazil Xstrata Switzerland Anglo American Lonmin Rio Tinto United Kingdom Canada Barrick Goldcorp Teck United States Mitsubishi Materials Nippon Mining & Metals Sumitomo Metal Mining Japan Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold Newmont www.icmm.com

3. Member operations Interest at over 700 sites in ~60 countries www.icmm.com

4. ICMM Sustainable Development Framework www.icmm.com

5. ICMM member commitments 10 Principles for Sustainable Development 6 Position Statements 1. Implement ethical business practices and apply good corporate governance 2. Integrate SD in corporate decision- making 3. Uphold fundamental human rights 4. Manage risks based on sound science 5/6. Improve environment, health and safety performance continuously 7. Conserve biodiversity & conduct integrated land use planning 8. Apply materials and product stewardship 9. Contribute to community development 10. Publicly report, independently assure and engage openly and transparently Mining and Protected Areas Mining: Partnerships for Development Climate Change Mining and Indigenous Peoples Mercury Risk Management Transparency of Mineral Revenues www.icmm.com

6. Programs Core services Communications Strategy and Administration Accountability & Continuous Learning Reporting & Assurance • Socio-economic Contribution • Resource Endowment • Community Environmental Contribution • Health & Safety • Worker • Community Materials Stewardship Mining and Metals Contribution Associations Coordination Group www.icmm.com

7. Reporting & Assurance:Accountability, Continuous Learning • Systematic approaches to SD reporting • Robust assurance of SD reports to enhance credibility and trust • How/which SD efforts contribute to value creation/protection • Differentiate between companies SD efforts • Achieving greater transparency and accountability www.icmm.com

8. Socio-economic contribution (Resource Endowment): Mining: Partnerships for Development, Local Content, Minerals Taxation • Improving stakeholder alignment on strategies • Demonstrating actual and life cycle contribution • Collaboration among ICMM country-based members and other companies • Techniques to understand how investments investments bestcontribute to social & economic development www.icmm.com

9. Socio-economic contribution (Community): Artisanal Small-scale Mining, Community Development, Human Rights, Indigenous Peoples • Artisanal and Small-scale Mining • Strategic approach to community development • Human rights issues across operations • Enhancing relationships with Indigenous Peoples www.icmm.com

10. Health & Safety:Zero Harm, Health Risk & Impact Assessment, Benchmarking • Promoting strong and consistent leadership to eliminate fatalities • Developing a workplace culture that recognises all accidents and work-related illnesses as preventable • Community health issues in partnership with others • Improve health and safety performance and metrics in support of benchmarking www.icmm.com

11. Materials Stewardship:Life Cycle Management, Chemicals Management, Market Access • Lifecycle approach • Sound chemicals management to address HSE risks of commodities & process chemicals • Considering supply chain/value chain aspects • Ensuring sound science in regulatory decisions affecting market access www.icmm.com

12. Environment:Biodiversity, Climate Change, Land Use, Water, Closure • Improving environmental performance & enhancedunderstanding of key issues • Enhancing capacity and performance on key environmental challenges • Sharing of information and understanding with the conservation community • Improving alignment between stakeholders • Climate change policy www.icmm.com

13. Environment: Biodiversity • Section A – Introduction • Why biodiversity is valuable • Why mining companies should consider it • Importance of stakeholder engagement • Section B – Biodiversity Management in Operations • Project Development - Exploration, Pre-feasibility, • Feasibility & Construction • Operational Phase - Associated infrastructure, • impacts & opportunities • Closure Planning - Rehabilitation • Section C – Management, Assessment, Mitigation & Rehabilitation Systems, Tools & Processes • EMS • ESIA • Stakeholder engagement • Mitigation, rehabilitation & enhancement tools • Case studies • Checklists www.icmm.com

14. Environment: Biodiversity • A case study compilation document of mining biodiversity conservation published as part of a dialogue between ICMM and the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) • Dialogue objective to explore different aspects of biodiversity conservation in the mining and metals sector www.icmm.com

15. Other mining SD systems • Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada (PDAC) e.g. E3+ – A framework for responsible exploration • Canadian Mining Association (MAC) e.g.Towards Sustainable Mining • Minerals Council of Australia (MCA) www.icmm.com

16. Ongoing biodiversity developments • Discussion about mining’s contribution to conservation including the implications of: • ‘no net loss’ and ‘net positive impact • Business and Biodiversity Offsets Program (BBOP) • Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD) • The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity (TEEB) • Biodiversity affected by climate change www.icmm.com

17. Questions • How is the mining industry contributing to sustainable development and a shift to a ‘green economy’? • Are other tools required to help this transition • What is missing from the current suite? • Are there any issues that need to be addressed with greater urgency? • What linkages are missing? www.icmm.com

18. For further information please contact: Mark Holmes mark.holmes@icmm.com www.icmm.com