As a follow-up to the piece I wrote last week (see: Why the Future of Mining Depends on Social Change) I felt it was important to explore this question and to provide some direction for what should mining companies could do differently to improve their relationships with indigenous people.
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And some additional, much less happy news from Australia, as Unesco and environmentalists warn that climate change and large-scale coal mining may lead to the wholesale destruction of the Great Barrier Reef.
In principle the RBA could change its inflation target, ignoring prices in the mining state of Western Australia and perhaps the Northern Territory.
In return, Guyana has promised to guarantee the preservation of the forest in the immediate future, preventing illegal logging and mining and thus helping to put the brakes on climate change.
At the same time, also twenty years ago, enterprise IT saw a major wave of change with the rise of relational databases running on inexpensive servers, data mining, and data warehousing.
The change comes as competition to create the coins gets more intense with the release of custom mining chips.
While mining remains white-dominated and prefers to offload peripheral businesses than to see change at its core, consumer-oriented companies, such as retailers and brewers, have long had a lot of black managers in senior positions.
Whether Western interests (mining, tobacco and finance) should withdraw or set themselves up as drivers of change is a question that demands careful and urgent consideration.
There are positive signs that mining companies are starting to understand that they have a particularly important social purpose and to change their behavior.
Much of the mineral resource debate center on what to charge mining companies for royalties within the province, with Deltell and Bachand generally in agreement and Ouellet adamant complete change is needed.
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