Resources

Learn how ICMM is promoting leading environmental and social practices to encourage better industry performance.

Tools for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

Providing companies with practical resources to promote diversity, equity, and inclusion in the workplace, along with industry-specific insights to enhance safety and support employee wellbeing.

Guidance & toolkits

Human Rights Due Diligence Guidance

ICMM’s Human Rights Due Diligence Guidance is designed to help mining companies improve how human rights impacts are being managed across the world.

Guidance & toolkits

Five Ways ICMM Members are Embracing Circularity

Discover more about ICMM members are embracing circularity throughout their operations.

Case Studies

Tools for Circularity

ICMM members are continuing to improve circularity at both their mine sites and across their value chains, to enhance their contributions to the UN Sustainable Development Goals.

Guidance & toolkits

Hazard Assessment of Ores and Concentrates for Marine Transport: Guidance and Quick Reference Guide 2024

Hazard Assessment of Ores and Concentrates for Marine Transport: Guidance and Quick Reference Guide 2024

Guidance & toolkits

Seven ways ICMM members are exploring innovative technologies to reduce mine tailings

Tailings production is inherent to minerals and metals processing, and will remain so for a foreseeable time. While there's a significant need to reduce tailings this can represent an opportunity, as these examples demonstrate.

Comment & analysis Case Studies

Position Statement: Indigenous Peoples

Building positive relationships between mining companies and Indigenous Peoples through respect, meaningful engagement and mutual benefit.

Organisational communications

Safety Performance: Benchmarking progress of ICMM company members in 2023

ICMM is committed to strengthening health and safety performance to reduce operational fatalities to zero. As part of this commitment, ICMM produces an annual safety data report.

Research & briefings

Five ways ICMM members approach integrated mine closure

102 Things to Do with a Hole in the Ground - 5 ways ICMM members approach integrated mine closure 

Case Studies

ICMM Members’ Tax Contribution: Focusing on corporate income tax and royalties – 2023 update

This report focuses on Corporate Income Tax and Royalties, showing members’ tax contributions made up to the financial year ended 30 June 2023. It also provides insight into ICMM members’ broader social economic contributions.

Research & briefings

Unlocking Prosperity: Tax Principles for Sustainable Mining

This briefing paper, sets out tax policy principles and six tax design elements that support responsible mine development and optimise the benefits of mining for host citizens.

Research & briefings

Scope 3 Emissions Target Setting Guidance

Acknowledging the inherent differences in commodities and value chains, rather than endorsing a specific methodology, this Guidance provides flexibility for companies to set credible targets based on their unique value chains.

Guidance & toolkits

Understanding Perceptions of Mining: Insights from general public respondents

GlobeScan’s online Radar survey on business and society was conducted across markets in 2023, with customised questions asked in 17 markets focusing on what respondents thought of mining in general.

Research & briefings

ICMM Members’ Tax Contribution: Focusing on corporate income tax and royalties – 2022 update

This report focusses on Corporate Income Tax and Royalties, showing members’ tax contributions made up to the financial year ended 30 June 2022. It also provides insight into ICMM members’ broader social economic contributions.

Research & briefings

Accelerating the Adoption of Zero-Emission Haul Trucks in the Mining and Metals Industry

An overview of the importance, challenges, and opportunities of decarbonising surface mining equipment learned through ICMM’s ICSV initiative.

Research & briefings

Water Stewardship Maturity Framework

This Framework is a practical tool designed to enhance stewardship of shared water resources in ways that are socially equitable, environmentally sustainable and economically beneficial.

Guidance & toolkits

The Critical Minerals Rush: Why is contract transparency so important?

In the rush to deliver the minerals critical to the clean energy transition, we cannot lose sight of responsible mineral resource governance.

Research & briefings

Scope 3 Emissions Accounting and Reporting Guidance

This Guidance provides a standardised framework for mining and metals companies to calculate and disclose their value chain emissions to improve transparency and accelerate collaborative action.

Guidance & toolkits

Safety Performance: Benchmarking progress of ICMM company members in 2022

ICMM is committed to strengthening health and safety performance to reduce operational fatalities to zero. As part of this commitment, ICMM produces an annual safety data report.

Research & briefings

Position Statement: Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

Inclusive workplaces and communities foster the creativity, innovation and collaboration needed to solve today’s complex challenges and tackle tomorrow’s.

Organisational communications