Biography Louis Maréchal joined the Centre for Responsible Business Conduct of the OECD in September 2014. He specifically works on projects related to the implementation...
Category: Talks
Bob Seitz and Jan Cilliers – Risk and the Talent Gap
The mining industry is suffering an engineering skills gap. While Universities educate engineers to understand their role, it is up to operators to train them...
Cecilia Joffre – Tools to measure ESG from Board to Operations
There is no doubting that Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) risks require attention from Board down to Operational level. It is fundamental when managing these...
Nicholas Arndt – Public Perception of Mining in Europe
To achieve a carbon-free economy will require drastic changes. A ban of diesel and petrol cars requires the production of over 30 million electric or...
Liv Carroll – Responsible Mining: Leveraging Technology for Resource Stewardship
Mining is the lifeblood of society as we know it, delivering the raw materials we all need to thrive, including supplying the fertilizers vital to...
Grant Erskine – Gold Fingerprinting Technology to Support Responsible Sourcing
‘Gold Fingerprinting’ is a term associated with established scientific based technology that originally was used to validate the mine of origin for Gold before expanding...
Ivy Chen – ESG and the JORC code
The ESG component of the JORC Code has always been there, is coming more to the fore. But that was all before Covid hit. Some economists...
Social Spotlight: Monica Ospina – Value of Trust in the Times of Covid-19
When working on stakeholder engagement and building trust in mineral projects, none of us consider a pandemic to be the real test to the Social...
Norman Gridley – Redesign of mining plans to create available volumes for permanent disposal of large quantities of mineral processing tailings in mined out areas
The presentation suggests that Mining Plans be designed and/or redesigned to consider and incorporate the permanent disposal of mineral processing tailings. Such redesigns would require...
Richard Herrington – Diversifying cobalt supplies
Cobalt is a metal associated with modern technologies with the Li-ion battery industry, particularly for private vehicles, using around 45 percent of global cobalt production. ...