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[PDF] Mining: Partnerships for Development - Position Statement
...ICMM member companies commit to actively support or help develop partnerships...with the aim of enhancing the social and economic contribution of mining... [M]ember companies will...:
At the national and community levels...:
• develop an understanding of the social and economic contribution of the project, including an analysis of the barriers that might weaken this contribution;
• actively support or help develop partnerships...with other stakeholder groups..., with the aim of ensuring the project’s full potential socio-economic contribution is realized...
[member companies listed: African Rainbow Minerals, Anglo American, AngloGold Ashanti, Barrick, BHP Billiton, Freeport-McMoRan, GoldCorp, Gold Fields, Lihir Gold, Lonmin, Mitsubishi Materials, Minerals and Metals Group (MMG) (part of China Minmetals), Newmont, Nippon Mining & Metals, Rio Tinto, Sumitomo Metal Mining, Teck, Vale, Xstrata]