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Milestones
- 2003
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Environmental incident reporting guidelines
have been drawn up for the group as a whole and have been
approved by the Board committee. This is now being implemented
across the group. |
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Environmental management systems to
identify, monitor and control the environmental aspects of
activities are in place or are being put in place at all
operations. |
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In 2003, the Department of Business,
Industry and Resource Development (DBIRD) from the Northern
Territory Government accepted the Mine Management Plan for Union
Reefs in Australia, which included decommissioning and closure. |
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Geita Gold Mine in Tanzania was awarded a
certificate of merit for achieving second place in the
Presidential Awards for Leadership and Excellence in
Environmental Management in Mining. |
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After extensive rehabilitation trial work
at the South African surface retreatment operation, Ergo, a
preferred methodology for rehabilitating the tailings dam has
been determined and full-scale progressive rehabilitation work,
with monitoring and modelling systems, can now be employed to
demonstrate the long-term sustainability of this rehabilitation
solution. (See case study) |
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