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— Executive Order (EO) No. 79, s.2012 (Institutionalizing and Implementing Reforms in the Philippine Mining Sector, Providing Policies and Guidelines to Ensure Environmental Protection and Responsible Mining in the Utilization of Mineral Resources) constituted the Mining Industry Coordinating Council (MICC), which is tasked with …
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— Despite its contributions to the development of the country, the mining sector in Sierra Leone, has been attributed to a multitude of impacts on the environment. This article focuses on assessing the environmental impacts of mining in mining edge communities in Sierra Leone. A survey of 360 people from three mining edge communities (Sierra Rutile …
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Minerals and Mining Policy for South Africa October 1998 Pretoria Department of Minerals and Energy Private Bag X59 Pretoria 0001 Tel: (012) 317-9000 ... investment analysts, foreign-owned mining companies and environmental interest groups. In addition, written submissions were . received from several interested parties during the consultative ...
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— An EMS, which is the component of the overall management system that includes organizational procedures, environmental responsibilities, and processes, can help a mining company comply with environmental regulations, identify technical and economic benefits, and ensure that corporate environmental policies are adopted and followed.
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— 1. Introduction. Mining companies, as one of the pillar businesses of the manufacturing industry, consistently supply energy for the everyday life of the public and the operation of various industries (Suopajärvi et al., 2016).In the new phase where China's economic development has hit the "fast-forward" button, the prosperous benefits of the …
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introduced through legislation and policies as tools that mining companies should utilize to ensure that hazards to the environment are reduced in mining operations (Wahaab, 2003). The EMP's purpose is to ensure that the environment is rehabilitated and sustainable in the sense that it perpetually continues to be beneficial and
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2. An example of an environmental policy; 3. Typical environmental aspects and potential impacts for a mining and beneficiation operation; 4. Example of a compliance calendar; 5. A tool for assessing the significance of environmental aspects for mining operations; 6. A tool for assessing controls and residual risk for mining operations; 7.
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A mining company may derive income from mining operations and non-mining operations. Different rules and tax rates are applied according to the nature of such income. Differences also apply according to whether the mining income is derived from gold or other operations. b) Deduction of expenditure. A mining company incurs a wide range of ...
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— Furthermore, mining companies primarily use CSR initiatives aligned with the SDGs, investing significant resources to create value, preserve, and occasionally change the favors of stakeholders due to financial market pressures and reputation concerns (Mzembe and Meaton, 2014).On the other hand, CSR activities can act as a means to …
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— The report examines the context and state of sustainability reporting in the large-scale mining sector, with a specific focus on what governments have done to enhance the transparency of the sector. Among findings of the report are the growing demand for more detailed disclosures at the mine-site level and the need for increased government …
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— The Issue. Critical minerals are an essential component of the transition to a low-carbon and clean energy future. Today, the United States lacks strategies for responsibly mining these materials at home, for developing sustainable supply chains for their incorporation into the clean energy economy, and for leading through example and …
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— Department of Geography and Center for Energy and Environmental Policy, University of Delaware, DE 19716, USA. Google Scholar. Find this author on PubMed . Search for more papers by this …
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— However, despite the extensive proliferation of policies and programs aimed at addressing the adverse environmental impact of mining, limited attention has so far been paid to identifying what might constitute environmental policy best practices across Sub-Saharan Africa's gold mining sector.
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— In fact, a 2020 research report from satellite communications specialist, Inmarsat, found that environmental monitoring was the number one driver of IoT uptake in the mining sector. "[The Internet of Things (IoT) has the potential to] dramatically reduce the impact of mining operations on the environment," said the company.
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— Due to a lack of institutional capacity, local governments are often unequipped to enforce laws or combat illegal mining. This creates a low-risk environment that enables legal mining entities not to adhere to espoused ESG guidelines and encourages illegal mining activity (any such activity that takes place without receiving …
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