Vale Manitoba Operations released their corporate responsibility report last week.

 

Manager of Corporate Affairs and Organizational Development, Ryan Land explains the report updates the public on their operations.

 

The report goes over some of the current projects they are undertaking including Towards Sustainable Mining. The Mining Association of Canada led initiative, rates mines on a scale of C to AAA, AAA being the highest.

 

According to the mine’s yearly report, last year it scored an A or higher, in 5 of 6 categories. Ryan Land says the mine continues to improve:

 

"For the most part we’ve continued to improve annually which really is always the goal and as the industry standard is to be A or better we might be satisfied with being A or better in most categories but I think there’s always room for improvement.  We want to be the best mining company in the world".

 

Land says their lowest scored category, Biodiversity Conservation, was a new indicator so they didn’t yet have systems in place to report.

 

The report also provides an overview of milestones the mine has reached over the last year. One being they've inducted only their second two-time Quarter Century Club inductee in the history of their operations.

 

The report can be accessed on their website.