Resources

Learn how ICMM is promoting leading environmental and social practices to encourage better industry performance.

ICMM Members’ Tax Contribution: Focusing on Corporate Income Tax and Royalties – 2023 Update

This report focusses on Corporate Income Tax and Royalties, showing members’ tax contributions made up to the financial year ended 30 June 2023. It also provides insight into ICMM members’ broader social economic contributions.

Research & briefings

Unlocking Prosperity: Tax Principles for Sustainable Mining

This briefing paper, sets out tax policy principles and six tax design elements that support responsible mine development and optimise the benefits of mining for host citizens.

Research & briefings

Nature: Position Statement

Nature loss is a critical global challenge, placing the survival, health, wellbeing and livelihoods of people, ecosystems, and our global economy at significant risk.

Organisational communications

Understanding Perceptions of Mining: Insights from general public respondents

GlobeScan’s online Radar survey on business and society was conducted across markets in 2023, with customised questions asked in 17 markets focusing on what respondents thought of mining in general.

Research & briefings

The Critical Minerals Rush – Why is contract transparency so important?

In the rush to deliver the minerals critical to the clean energy transition, we cannot lose sight of responsible mineral resource governance.

Research & briefings

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion: Position Statement

This Position Statement sets out ICMM Members’ collective commitment to improving diversity, equity and inclusion in the industry and positively influencing the communities that we are a part of.

Organisational communications

ICMM Human Rights Due Diligence Guidance

ICMM’s Human Rights Due Diligence Guidance is designed to help mining companies improve how human rights impacts are being managed across the world.

Guidance & toolkits

World Water Day 2023 — Seven ways ICMM members are taking action on sustainable water management

On World Water Day, Closure and Water Manager Emma Gagen writes about the role of mining and metals in managing the world’s water sustainably.

Comment & analysis Case Studies

Role of Mining in National Economies: Mining Contribution Index (6th Edition)

This edition of ICMM's 'Mining Contribution Index' synthesises into a single number the significance of the mining sector’s contribution to national economies.

Research & briefings

Social and Economic Reporting: Framework and Guidance

Providing a foundation for consistent reporting on a company’s contribution to social and economic development.

Organisational communications Guidance & toolkits

An Inclusive Growth Approach to Promote Community Resilience

An inclusive growth approach encourages mining companies to re-imagine systems, rethink partnerships, unlock capital from under-leveraged sources and unite partners around common objectives.

Research & briefings

Tools for Social Performance

These tools support a greater understanding of what social performance is and the enablers required within organisations to deliver good, consistent social performance.

Guidance & toolkits

External Drivers Shaping the Future of the Mining Industry and Implications for Skills and Community Resilience

Critical external drivers that are outside the industry’s control will affect community resilience and shape how mining operations are developed and managed.

Research & briefings

Framing Mining’s Future of Work and Community Resilience

Discussions on the future of work often centre on technology but this is not the real skills gap. Instead, it's the gaps in the cognitive skillsets required for distinctly human intelligence.

Research & briefings

Partnering for our Common Future: Optimising Mining’s Partnering Capability to Contribute to Community Resilience and Thriving Societies

This guide aims to support mining companies in strengthening their capability for partnering thereby contributing to communities while creating business value.

Guidance & toolkits

Social Progress in Mining-Dependent Countries: Analysing the Role of Resource Governance in Delivering the UN Sustainable Development Goals

ICMM research finds that governance is key to determining socio-economic progress in mining-dependent countries.

Research & briefings

Future of Jobs in Mining Regions

Summary of the key findings from WEF’s 'The Future of Jobs Report 2020', focussing on data relevant to the mining and metals sector to assist the industry in planning future workforce strategies.

Research & briefings

Community Resilience During and After COVID-19: What Role for the Mining Industry?

The mining industry is inextricably linked to the fortunes of the communities that they work alongside. This briefing explores how the sector can support development progress.

Research & briefings

Role of Mining in National Economies: Mining Contribution Index (5th Edition)

This edition of ICMM's 'Mining Contribution Index' synthesises into a single number the significance of the mining sector’s contribution to national economies.

Research & briefings

Building Forward Better: Mining as a Partner in Supporting More Inclusive and Resilient Societies

Encouraging learning and thinking about mining’s collective role in supporting communities through COVID-19 and beyond.

Guidance & toolkits