Bench Marks Foundation launched the report "Coping with Unsustainability: Policy Gap 7", on 15 October 2013.  The report documents the findings of a study on Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and mining that uses the case of Lonmin's CSR commitments and reporting over 10 years.  Bench Marks Foundation asserts that Lonmin has failed - throughout this period - to live up to its own social and environmental commitments and that for this reason, its licence should be suspended by South Africa's Department of Mineral Resources.

Bench Marks Foundation reports

Business & Human Rights Resource Centre invited Lonmin to respond to:

• "Inaccurate reporting by companies a threat to sustainability", Bench Marks Foundation, 15 Oct 2013
• "Coping with Unsustainability: Policy Gap 7", Bench Marks Foundation, Oct 2013
• "Study claims Lonmin not contributing enough to social capital", Bench Marks Foundation, 15 Oct 2013
• "Lonmin's environmental issues", Bench Marks Foundation, 15 Oct 2013
• "Transgressors should be held accountable and prosecuted", Bench Marks Foundation, 15 Oct 2013

 
Related media articles

• "Report says Lonmin unsustainable", Business Report (So. Africa), 15 Oct 2013
• "Bench Marks Foundation slams inaccurate reporting by mining firms", Mining Weekly, 15 Oct 2013
• "Bench Marks Foundation slams Lonmin enviromental record", Times (So. Africa), 16 Oct 2013
• "Call for Lonmin's mining licence to be suspended", Business Day (So. Africa), 16 Oct 2013

 
Lonmin response

In response, Lonmin sent the following materials:

• "Lonmin Sustainability and Key Initiatives", Lonmin, July 2013
• "Lonmin media release response to Bench Marks Foundation Policy Gap 7 Report", Lonmin, 31 Oct 2013