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CSR and the Mining and Minerals Sector
The following documents are relevant to aspects of corporate
social responsibility in the mining and mineral industry.
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Corporate Social Responsibility: An Implementation Guide for Canadian
Business, 2006 (pdf file). This guide is a primer on
corporate social responsibility. It contains information on how to
assess the effects of business activities on others, develop and implement
a corporate social responsibility strategy and commitments, and measure,
evaluate and report on performance and engage with stakeholders. Industry
Canada prepared this guide with financial support from Environment
Canada, Foreign Affairs
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Pay Your
Taxes!: Corporate Social Responsibility and the Mining Industry in
Chile (MS Word
388KB)- Manuel Riesco, Draft paper prepared for United Nations Research
Institute for Social Development (UNRISD), 2004. A concern
with CSR
from a
developmental perspective is that it often ignores certain corporate
practices that undermine
social, sustainable, and economic development including,
sub-contracting, non-payment of taxes, corporate political influence,
and transfer pricing and intra-corporate financial flows. This report
examines the mining industry in Chile with a particular focus on the
practices of companies such as Exxon and BHP Billiton.
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Time
for Transparency: Coming clean on oil, mining and gas revenues -
Global Witness, March 2004. The report examines the misappropriation
and mismanagement of revenues from oil, gas and mining that could
be funding sustainable economic
development. Five major examples of this problem are examined: Kazakhstan,
Congo Brazzaville, Angola, Equatorial Guinea and Nauru.
- Corporate
Social Responsibility in Indonesia: Quixotic Dream or Confident Expectation? - Melody Kemp, UNRISD, 2001. This report examines the effectiveness
of CSR in Indonesia by addressing two questions. First, does CSr have
the capacity to change the behaviour of corporations and second, at
this stage of development and given the economic crisis is CSR relevant
for Indonesia. A section of the report explores the environmental
impact of large business, with particular reference to the mining and
palm oil industries.
- Corporate social responsibility and the case
of Summitville mine -
Alyson Warhurst and Paul Mitchell, Resources Policy, Vol. 26 pp.91-102,
Elsevier, 2000. - Not available online, see information about the journal
Resources
Policy.
- Learning
from the Future: Alternative Scenarios for the North American Mining
and Minerals Industry (Adobe PDF 1.1MB) - Scenarios Work Group,
MMSD-North America regional group, 2002.
The MMSD- North Americs regional group have developed four scenarios
that may be faced by the North American minerals industry in the next
15 years. Many of the same behavioral and procedural changes advocated
through corporate social responsibility are seen to play an essential
role as to the future direction and prosperity of the industry.
- ICMM
Toronto Declaration - Declaration adopted by ICMM at the Global
Mining Initiative Conference held in Toronto, May 2002. The declaration
is intended to guide the future work program of the International Council
on Mining and Metals (ICMM) and embodies many CSR principles. (Adobe
PDF 128kB)
- Two
Cultures of Sustainable Development (Adobe PDF 414kB) - Susan A.
Joyce and Ian Thomson - Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada
(PDAC) Communique, May 2002. Discusses how the differing perceptions
of developed and developing country stakeholders affect views on the
mineral industry and sustainable development.
- Global
Witness: Conflict Diamonds Campaign - Global Witness is
an NGO working to expose the link between natural resource exploitation
and human rights abuses. The site features numerous reports dealing
with conflict diamonds including the evaluation of the Kimberley
Process industry self-regulation scheme.
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