Resources

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

Measuring Circularity Within Metals Value Chains: Opportunities and Challenges

ICMM partnered with Circle Economy Consulting and ICA to explore the importance, opportunities, and challenges of measuring circularity within the mining industry and across its broader value chains.

Research & briefings

Five Ways ICMM Members are Embracing Circularity

Discover more about ICMM members are embracing circularity throughout their operations.

Case Studies

Tools for Circularity

ICMM members are continuing to improve circularity at both their mine sites and across their value chains, to enhance their contributions to the UN Sustainable Development Goals.

Guidance & toolkits

Seven ways ICMM members are exploring innovative technologies to reduce mine tailings

Tailings production is inherent to minerals and metals processing, and will remain so for a foreseeable time. While there's a significant need to reduce tailings this can represent an opportunity, as these examples demonstrate.

Comment & analysis Case Studies

Scope 3 Emissions Target Setting Guidance

Acknowledging the inherent differences in commodities and value chains, rather than endorsing a specific methodology, this Guidance provides flexibility for companies to set credible targets based on their unique value chains.

Guidance & toolkits

Accelerating the Adoption of Zero-Emission Haul Trucks in the Mining and Metals Industry

An overview of the importance, challenges, and opportunities of decarbonising surface mining equipment learned through ICMM’s ICSV initiative.

Research & briefings

Scope 3 Emissions Accounting and Reporting Guidance

This Guidance provides a standardised framework for mining and metals companies to calculate and disclose their value chain emissions to improve transparency and accelerate collaborative action.

Guidance & toolkits

Collaboration for Innovation: Accelerating the Implementation of Zero Emission Vehicles for the Mining and Metals Industry

Diesel-powered mining vehicles account for anywhere from 30-80 per cent of direct emissions at a mine site, depending on the site geography and commodity being mined.

Case Studies

Mining with principles at Boliden's Aitik mine in Sweden

See how Boliden is using trolley assist technology at its Aitik copper mine in Sweden, as a step towards its vision of fossil fuel-free operations.

Case Studies

Renewable energy in the South American mining and metals industry

As renewable energy becomes more and more accessible, ICMM members are making significant efforts to power their mines with green energy.

Case Studies

Position Statement: Climate Change

Responding to the need for an urgent global response to the threat of climate change, across all areas of society and the economy.

Organisational communications

Mining with principles at Codelco's El Teniente copper mine in Chile

In the world’s largest copper underground mine Codelco is trialling an electric pick-up truck as part of its ambition to have all its underground operations running with electric equipment by 2030.

Case Studies

Mining with principles at Anglo American's Los Bronces copper mine

Anglo American has launched a pilot photovoltaic plant, built over a tailings pond at its Los Bronces copper mine in Chile.

Case Studies

Mining with principles at Gold Fields' Granny Smith mine

Gold Fields is lowering its carbon footprint with the completion of one of the world’s largest renewable energy microgrids at its Granny Smith gold mine in Western Australia.

Case Studies

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

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

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 Studies

Climate change – meeting a critical global challenge

Climate change is undoubtedly the biggest environmental challenge facing us all. We’re highlighting just a few of the many projects undertaken by ICMM members around the world.

Case Studies

Shared Water, Shared Responsibility, Shared Approach: Water in the Mining Sector

Shares some of the practical challenges, successes and lessons learned from companies and local partners who have worked to tackle shared water risks and develop shared opportunities.

Research & briefings

Measurement, Reporting, and Verification and the Mining and Metals Industry

Analyses different mandatory and voluntary measurement, reporting and verification (MRV) regimes and outlines the different challenges the sector face in estimating GHG emissions.

Guidance & toolkits