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SGS: Sustainability Initiatives in the African Mining Service Industry Russ Calow and Jean Richardson
SGS Minerals Services
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Importance of Sustainable Mining and Exploration to Africa
n W. Africa $B10.3 USD (11 Countries) $M743 USD 7.2%
n S. Africa $B35.7 USD (10 Countries) $M593 USD 1.7%
SNL MEG (2010) , International Council on Mining & Metals (2010)
National GDP arising from Mining Production
Exploration budget
Exploration is a key industry in Africa today and mining is and will continue to be a significant driver of GDP. The implications of this are far reaching and all stakeholders must ensure sustainability. SGS is committed to ensuring our operations in Africa are also sustainable.
n Canada $T1.68 USD (1 Country) $M2,215 USD 0.13%
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SGS’ Sustainability Position n Trust lies at the heart of SGS’s
business proposition. … Our success and value to society depends on us exercising foresight, judgement, and responsiveness to the needs of all our stakeholders
Chris Kirk, CEO, SGS
n Four pillars of sustainability • Professional Excellence • People • Environmental • Community
n Annual Sustainability Reports are publically released to shareholders on the SGS website
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Sustaining our Business in Africa
n The four pillars of sustainability guide all that we do
n At mines and industrial sites, we work with our clients to apply these principles in their operations
n We develop new initiatives that address weaknesses our people identify in our businesses, homes and communities
XRF Iron Ore Installation Monrovia, Liberia
Drinking Water Sampling Obuasi, Ghana
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First Pillar: Professional Excellence
n Excellence in capital facilities
• SGS is building world class laboratories throughout Africa
• We use state-of-the-art building engineering design to ensure these facilities are as safe and environmentally friendly as possible
• SGS has been responding to our client’s needs by providing new testing capacity where it is needed most
Environmental Preparation Laboratory, Accra, Ghana
New Geochem Laboratory in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso
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First Pillar: Professional Excellence n SGS is installing advanced testing
technology throughout Africa • ICP-OES & ICP-MS analysis in Ghana,
Tanzania, DRC, Kenya & S. Africa • XRF in Liberia, the first commercial iron
testing facility in Western Africa • QEM-SCAN & XRD in South Africa, the
world`s largest advanced mineralogy facility
n We are leveraging our African technical base and supplier relationships to improve the quality of our group globally • Partnership with African Mineral Standards
in JHB to create an extensive library of purpose-built certified reference materials
• Progressive program to ensure industry standard ISO/IEC 17025 accreditation for our commercial laboratories QEM SCAN Installation,
Johannesburg, South Africa
ICP-OES Installation Mwanza, Tanzania
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First Pillar: Professional Excellence n SGS is moving our services right to
our client’s locations – anywhere they are located and need services • Built >18,000 m2 of new Geochem
laboratory space in 8 countries in the last 12 months
• Doubled our geochemical capacity
• Deployed 12 mobile sample prep units right to project sites across Africa
• Creating a pan-African network of environmental testing capacity, laboratory and field based Baseline Monitoring Installation
Xstrata ‘s Askaf Project , Mauritania
Mobile Sample Preparation Unit Newmont’s Ahafo South Project , Ghana
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Second Pillar: People n SGS continues to develop and prepare
our African staff for advanced assignments in Africa and globally
• We firmly believe that it must be Africans managing Africa – in SGS expats represent only 0.4% of the Minerals staff complement (12 out 2880) and this percentage continues to decrease every year
• SGS opened a Minerals Training Academy in Ghana in 2012
– providing the next generation of skilled managers and supervisors
– first cohort now in operations and the next 16 are entering classroom phase Classroom Instruction
Accra, Ghana
Hands-on Laboratory Training Tarkwa, Ghana
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Third Pillar: Protecting the Environment
n Laboratories • We design and operate our
laboratories to minimize their environmental impact
n Environmental Services • Creating a pan-African network of
proximity environmental laboratories to better service industrial and regulatory clients
• Creating three centres of environmental testing excellence
– Tema, Ghana – Nairobi, Kenya – Randburg, South Africa
Laboratory Dust Extraction Systems Randgold’s Tongon Mine, Cote
D’Ivoire
New Environmental Laboratory Pointe Noire, Rep of Congo
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Fourth Pillar: Community
n Partnering with our communities to build capacity
n Heath initiatives
n Business development program for long term growth Drakenstein Child Lung Health Study Red
Cross Project with SGS in S. Africa
SGS Management & Leadership Course Training Small, Micro and Medium Business Leaders.
Local Community Christmas Parties Funded and Promoted by SGS