Resources

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

Covid-19: Health and safety in mining

The Covid-19 crisis has put extraordinary pressure on employers and businesses, while it is important to maintain fiscal resilience, this must not come at the cost of people’s health or wellbeing.

Case Studies

Covid-19: Support for governments

By stretching and stressing the capacity of each country it touches, Covid-19 has the potential to create devastating social, economic and political crises that will have lasting repercussions.

Case Studies

Covid-19: Supporting local businesses

The Covid-19 crisis has put extraordinary pressure on employers and private sector businesses to survive and continue to provide decent work.

Case Studies

Covid-19: Direct support for communities

By stretching and stressing the capacity of each country it touches, Covid-19 has the potential to create devastating social, economic and political crises that will have lasting repercussions.

Case Studies

Covid-19: Support for Indigenous Peoples

Company members are being pro-active in responding to the demands of Covid-19: moving fast and acting ethically to protect and care for employees and surrounding indigenous communities.

Case Studies

Key Performance Indicators: Tool for Closure

Provides a set of key performance areas (KPA) and illustrative key performance indicators (KPIs) to support the implementation of good closure practices.

Guidance & toolkits

Generating Low Carbon Renewable Energy on Closed Uranium Mine Sites

Orano's conversion of former uranium mine sites for renewable energy generation is an excellent example of post closure land use.

Case Studies

Anticipating Rehabilitation Studies, KATCO, Kazakhstan

Integration of closure planning into life of mine planning at Orano's in situ recovery (ISR) uranium mine in Kazakhstan.

Case Studies

Managing Remediation of a 50-Year-Old Mining Site as a Project

Supporting closure planning and social transition at Orano operations in northern Niger.

Case Studies

Validation Guidance

Supplement to ICMM's Assurance and Validation Procedure providing explanatory information for the implementation and evaluation of ICMM's Mining Principles.

Organisational communications

Assurance and Validation Procedure

ICMM’s Assurance and Validation Procedure establishes company member requirements for independent assurance and validation.

Organisational communications

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 Studies

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 Studies

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 Studies

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