African Mining March 2020 Click to read
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African Mining

March 2020

Published on in “, Trade”, language — English. 52 pages.
Mining companies have long regarded the environment and social governance (ESG) as the ‘soft issues’ of their industry. When I started writing for mining publications, editors made a clear distinction between ‘hard issues’ such as geology, drilling, operational efficiencies... , equipment and financials and ‘soft issues’ like environmental rehabilitation, community upliftment, or health and safety, which only made it into the magazine if there was extra space. More