If a mining company hopes to take advantage of the increased demand for the minerals of the future, it will need to ramp up its production and do so while having a less adverse environmental and social impact, write David Viljoen, Garyn Rapson, and Bruce Dickinson.
The mining industry is at the forefront of the sustainability debate, having been a major contributor to climate change, biodiversity loss, depletion of freshwater resources, and environmental degradation.