Resources

Handling and Resolving Local-level Concerns and Grievances: Human Rights in the Mining and Metals Sector

This guidance sets out how mining and metals companies can handle and resolve local community grievances effectively and in line with the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (UNGPs).

Guidance & toolkits

Adapting to a Changing Climate: Building Resilience in the Mining and Metals Industry

Provides an overview of how a changing climate may impact the sector and identifies ways companies can integrate climate considerations into risk management processes to build climate resilience.

Guidance & toolkits

Fatality Prevention: Eight Lessons Learned

No fatality is acceptable. This document articulates the collective discussions that have taken place on why the industry continues to have fatalities.

Research & briefings

Integrated Mine Closure: Let's talk challenges

Enabling agreed closure and post-closure commitments to be realised through planning, designing for and implementing closure in consultation with others.

Case study

Integrated Mine Closure: Let's Talk Opportunities

Enabling agreed closure and post-closure commitments to be realised through planning, designing for and implementing closure in consultation with others.

Case study

Integrated Mine Closure: Let's talk collaboration

Enabling agreed closure and post-closure commitments to be realised through planning, designing for and implementing closure in consultation with others.

Case study

Benchmarking Safety Data: Progress of ICMM Company Members in 2018

ICMM is committed to strengthening health and safety performance to reduce operational fatalities to zero. As part of this commitment ICMM produces an annual safety data report.

Research & briefings

Financial Concepts for Mine Closure

This guidance enhances understanding of the various types of closure cost estimates, enabling consistent understanding and communication across the industry.

Guidance & toolkits

Integrated Mine Closure: Good Practice Guide (2nd edition)

Promotes a disciplined approach to integrated closure planning that increases the uniformity of good practice across the sector.

Guidance & toolkits

ICMM Members' Tax Contribution: Focusing on Corporate Income Tax and Royalties

This report shows the amount of tax and royalties paid by ICMM members between 2013 and 2017.

Research & briefings

Role of Mining in National Economies: Mining Contribution Index (4th Edition)

This update to ICMM's 'Mining Contribution Index' ranks countries according to the importance of mining to the national economy.

Research & briefings

Constant innovation fuels solutions to water challenges

As a major water user, the mining industry has an important role to play. We’re highlighting just a few of the many projects undertaken by ICMM members around the world.

Case study

Improving access to clean drinking water

As a major water user, the mining industry has an important role to play. We’re highlighting just a few of the many projects undertaken by ICMM members around the world.

Case study

Promoting economic development through sustainable stewardship

As a major water user, the mining industry has an important role to play. We’re highlighting just a few of the many projects undertaken by ICMM members around the world.

Case study

Protecting local environments

As a major water user, the mining industry has an important role to play. We’re highlighting just a few of the many projects undertaken by ICMM members around the world.

Case study

Growing access to sanitation and hygiene in mining communities

As a major water user, the mining industry has an important role to play. We’re highlighting just a few of the many projects undertaken by ICMM members around the world.

Case study

Ensuring fair and constructive partnerships with Indigenous Peoples

ICMM members want to be good neighbours and good partners. On International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples (2018), here are just a few success stories.

Case study

Social Progress in Mining-Dependent Countries: Analysis Through the Lens of the SDGs

This research questions how social development progressed in resource-rich countries in the two decades before the launch of the Sustainable Development Goals.

Research & briefings

Helping keep the earth green

Desertification is responsible for around a third of all threats to biodiversity. This World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought (2018) we’re highlighting a few of the projects undertaken by members .

Case study

Investing in South Africa

Nothing does more to equip societies and economies for growth and prosperity than investment in children and young people. Here are just a few success stories from members in South Africa.

Case study