?Once known as corporate social and environmental responsibility and performance, so-called Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) issues play a big role for mineral exploration projects. This includes areas such as biodiversity, water use, climate change, human...
Winter school on Sustainable mineral exploration Funded by the European Commission and coordinated by the University of Grenoble and the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf, PACIFIC and INFACT are studying the social acceptance of mining-related activities while...
Social License to Operate (SLO) is a key theme in this edition of #INFACTalks. As a term, social license to operate was first used in 1997 by Jim Cooney, to describe the importance of social acceptability of mining. Over the last 30 years, social license has gained...
INFACT project has been presented at the 1st European Mining Convention in Dublin, Ireland (3-4 Dec 2019). European Mining Convention EMC – 2019 aims at connecting the European mining industry with the rest of the world to reframe sustainability with innovation...
The running theme in this second edition of #INFACTalks is how can the raw materials defined as critical to the sustainable functioning of the European economy be sourced and extracted in a socially and environmentally acceptable way in Europe. The talk moves from the...
We are glad to introduce #INFACTalks, a series of four web talks conducted with experts from the fields of mineral exploration, mining, earth sciences and social sciences. Dr. Cathryn MacCallum from SRK had the pleasure to talk to: Dr Robert Boutilier –Stakeholder...
