Managing Environmental Impacts We work to minimize and mitigate the environmental impacts of our operations in each phase of the mining cycle – from exploration through development, construction, operation, closure, and post-closure. We strive for continual improvement and have adopted best known practice international standards, including the Mining Association of Canada’s Towards Sustainable Mining (TSM) program across our operations.
Our Approach Policy • Environmental Policy Systems • TSM - We implement management systems in line with TSM protocols. • Corporate Environmental Standards – Our internal standards are intended to help sites implement and share best known practices to manage and mitigate impacts in key areas. We have standards covering tailings, heap leach pads, biodiversity, and mine closure. Plan • Baseline data collection and pre-construction environmental impact assessments help us plan our work and monitor the impacts of our operations.
We strive for continual improvement and have adopted best known practice international standards.
• The Company strives to share novel and best practices, as well as challenges, between our site environment and community teams. Engage • Environment and community teams collaborate to engage with COIs on environmental issues and concerns and respond to feedback provided through our community response mechanisms. Implement • Programs and initiatives – Our programs are designed to manage and mitigate our impacts on the environment and communities, and to maximize the benefits of the environmental knowledge and expertise we develop for other stakeholders in the regions where we operate. • Internal capacity building – We train our local teams on guidelines and procedures to continually improve our environmental management performance.
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