The Mining Company of the Future: 5

Canadian Drivers
Posted by Don Richardson
Feb 22, 2015 3:11:00 PM
http://info.sharedvaluesolutions.com/blog/the-mining-company-of-the-future-5-key-canadian-connections

Mining:

the shape and direction of the conversation has been fundamentally shifted.
Imagine...
Communities seeking to initiate mining projects because of the
prosperity they bring
Mining towns becoming diverse economic centers with sustainable
connected regions
Government, NGO, indigenous and religious leaders working with miners
in harmony
The mining industry attracting the best talent
Innovation in mining that includes collaborative and co-innovation
processes, as well as sustainable technical advances
This is part of a new vision for mining - the Mining Company of the Future. If you work in and around
the resource extraction sector, you may not have heard about this initiative... but you will.
The Mining Company of the Future emerged at a 2012 conference in Brazil via the Kellogg Innovation
Network and a range of "outside the box" thinkers - the KIN Catalyst. The innovators included Mark
Cutifani (CEO of Anglo American), Ray Offenheiser (President of Oxfam America), and Peter
Bryant (Senior Fellow, Kellogg Innovation Network) co-chairing discussions with representatives from
organizations such as Vale, AngloGold Ashanti, The Ford Foundation, Harvard University, Global
Indigenous Solutions, Resource Capital Fund, Schlumberger, Schneider Electictric, and many others.
Through the KIN Catalyst, a group of key innovators created a Development Partner Framework - a
new approach for resource companies to build sustainable, long-term value by repositioning mining
companies from isolated actors to regional development partners. The Development Partner
Framework is illustrated in the infographic below.

"Society's expectations of the mining industry continue to increase and there is a growing recognition in
the industry that incremental improvements to how we run our business are not enough," said . "Our
aspiration is to fundamentally change the extractive business model of the mining industry from insular
and reactive, to an integrated and proactive development partner, delivering on economic,
environmental and social shared purpose."
~ Mark Cutifani, Chief Executive of Anglo American

5 Canadian Drivers for the Mining Company of the Future:

1. Mark Podlasly. Mark Podlasly is an integral participant in the inititiative and one of the architects of
the Development Partner Framework. Podlasly is Senior Advisor to the B.C. First Nation Energy and
Mining Council on extractive industries and their impact on indigenous lands and communities, Senior
Associate with the Harvard Kennedy School, and member of the Nlakapamux Nation in South Centra
British Columbia. Podlasly is also the co-founder and CEO of North Pacific Energy Ltd., a Canadian
wood biomass energy company servicing Japan and Koreas electricity and industrial power sectors.
Starting in 2015, North Pacific will be providing up to 600,000 tons/year of carbon-neutral wood
biomass from Northern Canada to Asian customers. Podlasly serves his First Nation as Lead Trustee
for the Nlakapamux Legacy Trust, a mining revenue sharing fund dedicated to community and skills
building for eight band communities in central BC. To the Mining Company of the Future
initiative, Podlasly brings a practical, yet visionary, perspective from the point of view of North American
indigenous communities. According to Podlasly, the vision for the initiative comes "from a deep sense
of shared purpose to promote healthy relationships with local communities, flourishing ecosystems and
sustainable economic growth. We believe this can be a catalyst for economic sustainability and
promote a healthy planet for all." (Bloomberg Business, 2014)
2. Mark Cutifani. Mark Cutifani is the mining company co-chair for the initiative. Cutifani understands
Canadian mining - he was COO of INCO where in Sudbury he chaired succsessful

fundraising campaigns for the United Way and Dynamic Earth, one of Canada's first geoscience
centres, and lent his support to Laurentian University's Living Lakes Centrein Sudbury. Northern Life
president Michael Atkins, in a column he wrote in July 2006, called Cutifani, "the most talented,
charismatic, straightforward, community-minded, hard-driving executive" to occupy Inco's top job in the
over 33 years he has been in business in Sudbury. Cutifani's time at INCO also coincided with two
important Canadian mining developments - the Sudbury Soils Study and the Voisey's Bay Nickel Mine.
These two developments foreshadow the orientation of the Mining Company of the Future
initiative (see below).
3. Steve Wood. Steve Wood is President and CEO at ArcelorMittal Mining Canada and is another key
innovator for the initiative. Wood is member of the Canadian Institute of Mining, a professional
engineer who holds his bachelors degree in engineering (mining) from Laurentian University, Canada.
With Wood's leadership, ArcelorMittal Mining Canada is strong advocate of Towards Sustainable
Mining (TSM), a Mining Association of Canada (MAC) initiative. TSM's objective is to enable mining
companies to meet societys needs for minerals, metals and energy products in the most socially,
economically and environmentally responsible way.
4. The Sudbury Soils Study. Mark Cutifani (above) was on deck with INCO from 2003 to 2007, during
the Sudbury Soils Study - a multi-year $5 million community partnership to examine the risks to human
health and the environment from metals in soils from smelter emissions, focusing on arsenic, cobalt,
copper, nickel, lead and selenium. Cutifani gained first-hand experience of the benefits of collaborative
partnerships between mining companies and communities. This groundbreaking program in risk
assessment was manage by a diverse technical committee made up of representatives from INCO,
Falconbridge, the Ontario Ministry of the Environment, the Sudbury & District Health Unit, the City of
Greater Sudbury, and the First Nations & Inuit Health Branch of Health Canada. In addition to actions
to protect human health and the environment, the Study contributed to international knowledge about
how metals in soils interact with the environment. Along with thousand of soil samples, the scientists
conducted a vegetable garden survey, an air monitoring program, a drinking water survey, a food
consumption survey, livestock and fish tissue surveys, detailed ecological studies and soil toxicity tests
[Shared Value Solutions partners Laura Taylor and Don Richardson worked extensively on the Sudbury
Soils Study].
5. Voisey's Bay Nickel Mine and Impact Benefit Agreements. Mark Cutifani was also on deck with
INCO to experience the negotiations and results of two separate Impacts and Benefits Agreements
(IBAs): with the Labrador Inuit Association (LIA) and the Innu Nation. The Voiseys Bay deposit is
located within areas that were subject to land claims by Innu and Inuit. Rights to these traditional lands
belong to two Aboriginal groups the Innu and Inuit of Labrador who are represented by Innu Nation
and the Nunatsiavut Government, respectively. The results of challenging negotiation processes
emerged with a separate Environmental Management Agreement (EMA), between the two aboriginal
groups, the Government of Canada, and the Government of Newfoundland and Labrador. Voiseys
Bay achieved commercial production in December 2005, six months ahead of schedul. Thanks to
Voisey's Bay, and with Cutifani at the helm, half of the workforce of about 300 was aboriginal, making
Inco one of Canada's largest private sector employers of First Nations people. Cutifani has seen first
hand that long-term community relationships are needed for a mining company's success, company
reputation and risk management.

The infographic below captures the outcomes envisioned by KIN Catalyst participants. At Shared Value
Solutions, it has captured our imaginations... it fits very well with so much of our work with mining
companies and Aboriginal communities. We're starting to use this infographic, courtesy of the Visual

Capitalist
- http://www.visualcapitalist.com and the KIN
Catalyst report behind it, to shape our
approaches to new projects - especially for
Aboriginal and indsutry partnerships. Want
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Kelly John Lendsay

22/2/2015 17:29:02
An insightful strategy and collaborative approach. Well done. This aligns very nicely with our workplace and partnership
development work with companies and Aboriginal people.
Kelly J Lendsay, President & CEO, Aboriginal Human Resource Council

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