Environment & sustainability

Reynolds Soil Technologies has developed a range of services to treat and rehabilitate tailings dams.

Taseko Mines Ltd has announced that the Florence Town Council has decided it will not appeal the aquifer protection permit recently granted by the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality.

Vale has informed that Samarco has commenced the gradual resumption of its operations, with the integrated restart of operations at the Germano and Ubu Complexes in Brazil.

Easy Hydro, a spinout from Trinity College Dublin, has been awarded a €49 000 booster grant from the EU consortium EIT RawMaterials to build a pilot energy recovery installation at Tara Mines in Navan, Ireland.

FLSmidth will deliver an integrated dry stack tailings solution and a paste fill plant to a Hindustan Zinc Ltd (HZL) lead-zinc mine in Rajpura Dariba, Rajasthan, India.

ABB electrification and automation knowledge and solutions have been employed in a pioneering mine of the future project, which has ultimate ambitions to demonstrate zero carbon dioxide emissions and productivity increases of 50%.

Codelco’s announcement includes specific goals in terms of carbon footprint, water footprint, circular economy, standard of tailings deposits and development of territories with social value.

Glencore has entered a global agreement with Tre-Altamira to expand satellite monitoring to over 110 of its dams worldwide.

Copper Mountain Mining Corporation has announced its ratings under the Mining Association of Canada's Towards Sustainable Mining (TSM) standards.

Cyient has announced that it had signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Decipher to support Decipher with the global rollout of their cloud mining platform for tailings and rehabilitation monitoring.

Taseko Mines Ltd has announced that the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality has granted its Florence Copper Project the aquifer protection permit.

The World Gold Council has launched its ‘Gold and Climate Change: The Energy Transition’ report, which looks at gold mining’s energy transition and climate impacts over the next decade.

Pensana has selected the Saltend Chemicals Park in the Humber Local Enterprise Partnership as the proposed site for the UK’s first rare earth processing facility.

Vale is one of the few companies offering scope 3 emission reduction initiatives with a portfolio of high-quality products and innovative solutions.

The Coal Authority’s latest innovative collaboration has been recognised with two awards.