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BL Premium reports that Anglo American Platinum (Amplats) announced on Thursday that its Mogalakwena mine had been assessed by the Initiative for Responsible Mining Assurance’s (IRMA’s) mining standard and achieved an IRMA 50 level of sustainability.
The independent audit provided Mogalakwena with an average score of 50% across the various requirements set out by the IRMA standard, which measures business integrity, positive legacies, and social and environmental responsibility. The score also means that Mogalakwena “substantially”, if not fully, complied with all IRMA’s critical requirements. All of Amplats’ platinum group metals (PGM) mines having now been assured under the framework. The Mogalakwena audit was met by two community complaints in September and November last year by regional NGO Bench Marks Foundation and 31 residents of Sekuruwe, a community directly affected by the mine. The community raised concerns about the integrity of the audit process, accusing it of deliberately limiting their ability to provide input to auditors by providing insufficient notice before the on-site component of the process. IRMA said these complaints were being addressed through its issues resolution procedure, a platform for direct communication between Anglo American, Bench Marks and the community signatories. The outcome of this process has yet to be seen.
- Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Jacob Webster at BusinessLive (subscriber access only)
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