Resources

Download IRMA Principles of Engagement

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Business Integrity

• Legal compliance
• Community and stakeholder engagement
• Human rights and due diligence
• Complaints and grievance mechanisms, and access to remedy
• Transparency in revenue payments from companies to governments

Planning For Positive Legacies

• Environmental and social impact, assessment and management
• Free, Prior and Informed Consent
• Obtaining community support and delivering benefits
• Resettlement
• Emergency preparedness and response
• Planning and financing reclamation and closure

Social Responsibility

• Fair labor and terms of work
• Occupational health and safety
• Community health and safety
• Mining and conflict affected or high-risk areas
• Security arrangements
• Artisanal and small-scale mining
• Cultural heritage

Environmental Responsibility

• Waste and materials management
• Water management
• Air quality
• Noise and vibration
• Greenhouse gas emissions
• Biodiversity, ecosystem services and protected areas
• Cyanide management
• Mercury management

• • Draft Standard for Responsible Mining, version 1.0 (2014)
  • Comments and Responses to Stakeholder Feedback on Draft v.1.0
  • Draft Standard for Responsible Mining, version 2.0 (2016)
  • Comments and Responses to Stakeholder Feedback on Draft 2.0 (coming soon)

• 2015 Stillwater Mine Field Test
• 2016 Unki Mine Field Test Report

Standards Development Procedure

Standard Setting Public System Report

Stakeholder Complaints Form

Terms of Reference for Assurance Providers

• • IRMA leaders react to Brazil mine tailings failure

IRMA Self-Assessment Webinar (October 2018)