ABSTRACT Energy disruption and digitalization are driving forces to increase the need of metals in coming decades. Worries about security of supply of critical raw...
Tag: Environmental
Leanne Kemp – Diamonds, Minerals, and Trust: Creating Sustainable Value Chains
ABSTRACT The sourcing of diamonds, critical minerals, and other natural resources has long been associated with issues such as human rights violations, environmental degradation, and...
Richard Herrington – Development of a site-specific system for rehabilitation of legacy mines: The intersections of social, technical, and environmental data (Bio+Mine project Philippines)
ABSTRACT Authorship: Dennis Alonzo1, Irish Mae Dalona2, Robin Armstrong3, Yves Plancherel4, Mylah Villacorte-Tabelin5, Carlito Baltazar Tabelin6, Arnel Beltran7, Aileen Orbecido7, Pablo Brito-Parada4, Ana Santos3, Anne...
Andy Whitmore – Transition mineral supply chains in the context of Scottish legislation
ABSTRACT The talk will present the conclusions of a soon to be released report commissioned by Friends of the Earth Scotland to raise awareness of...
Katie Fedosenko – Building trust through transparency
ABSTRACT BIOGRAPHY Katie Fedosenko is the Director, ESG Engagement at Teck Resources Limited based in London, England. Since joining Teck in 2013, Katie has held...
Carlo Arcilla – Philippine Mining: Enigmatic Issues
ABSTRACT The Philippines is one of the largest sources of nickel worldwide, now a critical ingredient in batteries used versus climate change. Mining has been...
Grant Erskine – Scientifically verifying the origin of raw materials is critical to the delivery of ESG
Grant.erskine@sourcecertain.com All ESG claims first start at the provenance (i.e the origin) of the raw materials that are subsequently processed and valued added into the...
Andrew Buchanan – A Circular Economy in the Iron and Steel Industry and Beyond
1Materials Processing Institute, Eston Road, Middlesbrough, TS6 6US | UK, andrew.buchanan@mpiuk.com For too long, the “take-make-dispose”, linear economy model has been adopted globally. In this...
Andy Purvis, Adriana Da Palma & Richard Herrington – Developing metrics to monitor biodiversity risk in mining operations
Natural History Museum, London, UK a.purvis@nhm.ac.uk Renewable energy production is necessary to halt climate change and thereby reverse associated biodiversity losses. Ironically, generating the required...
Laurie Reemeyer – Improved Tailings Management – a Prerequisite for Responsible Metal Supply
11409-833 Seymour St, Vancouver, BC, V6B0G4, Canada laurie@resourcefulpaths.com +1-604-754-7710 Processing of ores for the extraction of minerals and metals commonly produces a waste material, tailings,...