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Tailings Management: Leading Practice Sustainable Development Program for the Mining Industry:
Author Leading Practice Sustainable Development Program for the Mining Industry Organisation Australian Government: Department of Industry Tourism and Resources Publication date 2007 Keywords 
This handbook addresses the theme of Tailings Management in the Leading Practice Sustainable Development Program. This handbook discusses a systematic, risk-based approach to tailings management. It provides examples of tailings containment, disposal and rehabilitation, and points to future trends in tailings management. The primary audience for this handbook is onsite mine management, but is also relevant to environmental officers, mining consultants, governments and regulators, non-government organisations, mine communities and students. The handbook encompasses all phases of tailings management including planning, design, construction, operation, closure, rehabilitation and aftercare. Section 2 highlights the importance of applying a broad sustainable development framework to tailings management. Section 3 presents the need for a life-of-mine risk-based approach to tailings management, and briefly describes this approach. Section 4 provides an overview of the key elements of management systems that are applied throughout the life of a tailings storage facility to ensure operating and closure objectives are met. Section 5 presents aspects of leading practice tailings management relating to the design, operation and closure of the various physical components of a tailings storage facility. Section 6 discusses future directions for leading practice tailings management, and Section 7 presents a brief conclusion.
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Stewardship: Leading Practice Sustainable Development Program for the Mining Industry:
Author Leading Practice Sustainable Development Program for the Mining Industry Organisation Australian Government: Department of Industry Tourism and Resources Publication date 2006 Keywords
This handbook addresses the theme of stewardship as part of the Leading Practice Sustainable Development Program. The handbook is intended to encourage mine and marketing managers, as well as customers, to apply the principles of stewardship and play a critical role in continuously improving the mining industry’s sustainable development performance. Stewardship is an evolving concept within the mining industry aimed at building partnerships throughout the life cycle of materials to ensure the sustainability of their production, use and disposal. While participants in each sector have a responsibility for stewardship in their specific industry, it is a fundamental principle of stewardship that those participants also have a concern in the other industries of the life cycle. The mining industry provides mineral and metal materials that are essential elements in a wide array of goods and services that create value by meeting human needs. Mining and processing activities are an integral part of complex material cycles in society which, in turn, interact with natural material cycles and ecosystems. Companies are an essential part of value chains and life cycles that we do not control. The sustainability of the industry is about helping to manage these cycles in ways that maximise the value to society while minimising negative impacts, be they economic, social or ecological. Taking some shared responsibility for performance beyond one’s direct control is at the heart of the notion of stewardship, which is fundamentally about getting better at delivering value at the whole system level. Effective stewardship becomes the driver for innovation in the ways we operate and think about our businesses.
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National Roundtables on Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and the Canadian Extractive Industry in Developing Countries: Advisory Group Report:
Author National Roundtables Advisory Group Organisation National Roundtables Advisory Group Publication date 2007 Keywords 
This report details a set of recommendations for adoption by the Canadian Government on the development of a Canadian Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Framework for Canadian extractive-sector companies operating abroad. The report was prepared by the Advisory Group to the Roundtable process that included representatives from industry associations; individuals currently or formerly employed by extractive-sector companies active overseas; civil society organisations; labour; academics; and the responsible investment sector. In addition to the set of recommendations for adoption by the Government of Canada the report also includes recommendations for the consideration of industry, financial institutions, the investment community, pension funds, and civil society and as means to enhance the CSR performance of the Canadian international extractive sector working in developing countries. The central recommendation in the report concerns the development of a Canadian CSR Framework and adoption of a set of CSR Standards that Canadian extractive-sector companies operating abroad are expected to meet and that is reinforced through appropriate reporting, compliance and other mechanisms. The main components of the proposed Framework are: CSR Standards; CSR reporting obligations; an independent ombudsman office to provide advisory services, fact finding and reporting; tripartite Compliance Review Committee to determine the nature and degree of company non-compliance with the CSR Standards; policies and guidelines for measuring and responding to serious failure by a company to meet the CSR Standards; and, a multi-stakeholder Canadian Extractive Sector Advisory Group to advise government on the implementation and further development of the Canadian CSR Framework.
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Sustainable Development and Corporate Social Responsibility: Tools, codes and standards for the mineral exploration industry:
Author Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada (PDAC) Organisation Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada (PDAC) Publication date 2007 Keywords
The Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada (PDAC) has compiled this publication on corporate social responsibility (CSR) resources to assist companies in the mineral exploration industry and particularly those in the process of developing their own CSR policies. The resources were selected for their particular usefulness and value to the mineral exploration sector and have been divided into three sections. The first section contains those CSR resources that are specific to the mineral industry and considered to be of most practical use to companies. The second section contains codes, standards and guidelines developed by international agencies. The third section contains a list of background material that provides the context for sustainable development and corporate social responsibility.
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Extractive Industries and Gender - Improving the Impact of Extractive Industries Projects on Women:
Author The World Bank Organisation The World Bank Publication date Keywords
The website features information on the World Bank's work to better identify the gender impact of the distribution of risks and benefits so as to improve the sustainability and development impact of extractive industries projects. Gender disparities in the distribution of benefits from extractive industry operations have significant cost implication for the extractive industry. Gender related initiatives, such as increasing female employment opportunities and community development programs, help reduce costs, and improve efficiency at extractive operations.
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