Minings Contribution

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Minings Contribution
R. Anthony Hodge President , International
Council on Mining and Metals Professor, Mining
and Sustainability, Queens University
Keynote Session, PDAC Annual Convention March 2,
2009, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Mining and Sustainability

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Resource Endowment

• Multi-interest collaboration aimed at
• Reduction of Poverty
• Enhanced revenue management
• Strengthened regional development planning
• Increased local inputs to mining projects
• Strengthened social development
• Effective dispute resolution

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Community Development

• Security Voluntary Principles
• Human rights grievance mechanisms
• Community Development
• Indigenous Peoples
• Artisanal and Small Scale mining

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Environment

• Biodiversity
• Protected areas
• Climate change
• Water
• Mine closure
• Land use planning

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Health and Safety

• Worker fatality prevention
• HIV/Aids, TB, Malaria
• Work-life balance (worker)
• Child health, water-borne diseases
• Health risk assessment (worker)
• Health impact assessment (community)
• Family integrity, community stability

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Materials Stewardship

• Recycling
• Metals toxicity characterization in Life
  Cycle Analysis
• Sustainable consumption and production
• Robust assessment of metals risk

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In Summary
From impact to contribution assessment
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