MEM Jul 2008
Enviromine
XSTRATA AWARD
Xstrata is the winner of a Business in Excellence award from the Global Business Coalition on HIV/AIDS TB and malaria Full story...HOT ROCKS ENERGY
Geothermal energy rm Petratherm said the geothermal energy could eventually supply up to 520MW of power to South Australia’s mining industry. Full story...HUMAN RIGHTS SURVEY
Goldcorp Inc is to undertake an independent human rights impact assessment at its Marlin mine in Guatemala after shareholders voiced concern about previous allegations of human rights abuse in the local indigenous community around the mine. Full story...Queensland ombudsman criticises mine safety
QUEENSLAND Ombudsman David Bevan has criticised the state mines inspectorate for poor recordkeeping and being too strongly influenced by the industry. Full story...Out of this world
AUSTRALIA’S Commonwealth Scienti c and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) is collaborating with NASA to develop exploration technologies for use on the Moon and Mars. Full story...High blood lead levels found in children living near Xstrata site
ONE in ten children in Mt Isa where Xstrata plc mines and smelts copper lead and zinc has dangerously high blood lead levels a state report has revealed. Full story...Tripartite safety summit calls for safer mines
ANGLO American plc has vowed to close mines with poor safety records to minimise injuries and deaths at operations across South Africa. Full story...Overweight Aussie workers are drunk with fatigue
TWO separate studies in recent months have indicated that Australia’s miners are not only the fattest workers in the country but they also su er from fatigue causing symptoms similar to being drunk. Full story...TRAIL SPILL
Teck Cominco has been working with the environmental authorities to monitor water in the Columbia River after a failure in a heat exchanger at its Trail lead re nery in British Colombia allowed a lead-containing acidic solution to reach the river. Full story...Legal Brief
A hard job getting harder: mining in environmentally-sensitive lands
PLANNING and conducting mining operations in areas of environmental historical or cultural signi cance always presents di- culties. Emerging trends under two US laws – the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act (SMCRA) and the US General Mining Law – indicate that mining in these areas is likely to become even more difficult. Full story...Features
COUNTRY RISK - Mining risk in the commodity boom
Recent hikes in food prices illustrate that the commodity boom is no longer limited to natural resources Full story...ARTISANAL MINING - Small-scale, big challenge
An international group seeks to improve environmental standards on small mines worldwide Full story...Countdown – are the Earth’s mineral resources running out?
Is it possible to predict how long our mineral resources will last and is there anything we can do to slow their inevitable decline? MEM editor Katherine Dixon reports Full story...What is your carbon footprint?
As a significant emitter of greenhouse gases mining is gaining increasing attention from NGOs and regulators. CO2 emissions for the mines producing over 90% of the Western world’s base metals are shown using data available for the first time from Minecost.com and Metalytics. Full story...POLLUTION MONITORING- It`s in the air: monitoring
Dr Paul Beckett director of environmental consultancy Phlorum looks at the increasing demand to monitor and assess the dangers of airborne pollutants and the need for mitigation measures to reduce emissions from mining and quarrying activities Full story...Sector-based emission targets - a test of mining`s mettle?
ESTIMATES for the mining and metal industry’s global greenhouse-gas (GHG) emissions vary. Australia’s Commonwealth Scientifo=ic Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) estimates that the industry emits 3% of global emissions (roughly 1 500t annually) slightly more than aviation. Full story...CO2 CALCULATIONS - Adding it up
How are greenhouse gas emissions calculated in the mining industry? Full story...AIDS/HIV - Dealing with the ‘big three’ diseases
TB HIV/AIDS and malaria are generally agreed to be the major causes of mortality related to communicable diseases across the world Full story...EHS Guidelines
With the objective of making sure its Guidelines met current realities IFC recently asked Golder Associates to conduct a comprehensive review and update of the EHS Guidelines for Mining the EHS Guidelines for Smelting and Refining and the General EHS Guidelines on cross-cutting issues for all industry sectors. Full story...CSR in Africa – the mantra
In the first of a three-part series Kevin De Souza (right) comments on how the concept of corporate social responsibility has rapidly infiltrated mining Full story...IFC GUIDELINES - Setting the standards
INTERNATIONAL Finance Corp (IFC) is the part of the World Bank Group that is responsible for lending to the private sector in developing countries. It is increasingly seen as the global standard setter for corporate behaviour and some of its expectations are set out in its Environment Health and Safety (EHS) Guidelines. Full story...Still Life
Still Life
Images from Minign Enviromental Management Full story...Tailings
Ethical confusion in the Congo
IS THIS an example of non-government organisations (NGOs) barking up the wrong tree? Criticisms have surfaced recently in the British media regarding plans by the UK’s Department for International Development (DFID) to create a new partnership with its US counterpart, USAID, the government of Katanga (the mineral-rich southern province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo) and various mining companies to support development in Katanga Full story...Site Search
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