Mining

Over the past decade, the conflict in Congo – and its ensuing effects in the Great Lakes region – have raised international concerns that mineral extraction activities are directly or [...]

The following travel blog captures key learnings from our site visit to La Pampa in Madre de Dios, one of Peru’s largest illegal mining sites nestled deep in the Amazonian jungle. Ulula was [...]

This blog originally appeared on the Huffington Post Impact blog on December 8, 2015. Please find the original post here. Obama’s signature of a U.S. bill enabling the ownership, trade, and [...]

Chances are that the metals that run the device on which you are reading this post were extracted by an artisanal miner, who may have been working in hazardous conditions with primitive equipment [...]

An ever-increasing number of companies use “pulse surveys” – frequent, real-time staff polls powered by digital technology – to gauge how happy and engaged their employees are. Reconfiguring [...]

During Mining Indaba 2013, Mark Cutifani, now CEO of UK-based mining giant AngloAmerican, declared, “We miss the local communities. In the information age when people can see how others are [...]

Antoine Heuty and Linda Pappagallo The costs associated from escalating conflict with neighboring communities can be substantial for extractive sector companies. Here are three examples of what [...]

Antoine Heuty and Linda Pappagallo At the “Shared Value Leadership Summit: Investing in Prosperity” this week in New York, leading thinkers and practitioners from around the world meet to explore [...]

Cornelius Graubner, February 24, 2014 A series of costly failures in major oil, gas and mining projects have led to a re-evaluation of risk assessments in the international mining community, and [...]

In a recent blog on transforming social stakes into business opportunities, Borealis provides an interesting overview of some of the opportunities and challenges for creating shared value in [...]