The Mogalakwena mine in South Africa was scored IRMA 50 by the Initiative for Responsible Mining Assurance’s (IRMA).
The IRMA scoring system recognises four levels of performance: IRMA Transparency, in which a mine is third party-assessed and publicly shares its scores; IRMA 50, 75 or 100, signifies a mine meets a core set of critical requirements together with at least 50%, 75% or 100% of the requirements in each of the four principles of the Standard for Responsible Mining being sustainably or fully met.
Anglo American Platinum, said this performance is due to an integrated approach to sustainability and its commitment to transparency in striving for responsible platinum group metals (PGMs) production.
Craig Miller, CEO of Anglo American Platinum, said, “as a leading adopter of the Initiative for Responsible Mining Assurance (IRMA), we recognise that stakeholders, including our shareholders and customers, need to trust where and how our metals are mined. With this latest IRMA accreditation for Mogalakwena, we have achieved our target of having all our mines assured by 2025. We are immensely proud of the work the teams are doing across all of our operations to support responsible mining, enabling us to demonstrate an ethical value chain for our metals, and we look forward to continuing to lead the way in the PGMs sector globally.”
IRMA’s Standard for Responsible Mining was developed a decade ago, through a public consultation process with more than 100 different individuals and organisations, including mining companies, customers and the ultimate downstream users of mined products, NGOs, labour unions, and communities, and is considered to be one of the most rigorous verification processes.
Aimee Boulanger, Executive Director of IRMA, said, “through detailed IRMA audit reports, mining companies, communities and companies that purchase mined materials can gain the information they need to decide what’s going well and what may require more attention at specific mines. Mogalakwena’s report demonstrates that the mine can point to transparent, independent evaluations of their environmental and social performance along with the other three Anglo American Platinum mines in South Africa and Zimbabwe.”
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