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Highlights

Discover our landmark tools and publications

June 10, 2022

Closing the gaps

In this new report, RMF considers what is getting in the way of accelerated progress on ESG issues and fundamental rights across the industry. The report pinpoints where the most radical and urgent shifts are needed to close the gaps between current practices and society expectations.

February 22, 2022

RMI Report 2022

The RMI Report 2022 assesses the ESG policies and practices of 40 of the largest mining companies in the world, and basic ESG actions at 250 of their mine sites. All the results, including thematic rankings and individual reports, as well as over 6,500 documents scrutinised for the assessment are now available.

November 29, 2021

Harmful Impacts of Mining

Based on public domain information, this report shows that harmful impacts are not inevitable, and yet they happen across the world, not only in jurisdictions with limited regulatory oversight. It calls for the prevention of harm across the industry.

November 30, 2020

Mine Site Assessment Tool (MSAT)

A tool developed by and for local stakeholders to enter into dialogue with mining companies on some of the matters that directly affect communities and workers in and around a mine.

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May 10, 2022

Accelerating responsible mining: spotlight on industry and multistakeholder initiatives

In support of the normalisation of responsible mining practices across the industry, RMF has conducted assessments of effective performance across a sample of six initiatives (EITI, ICMM, MAC TSM, UN Global Compact, the VPs, and WGC RGMP).

March 8, 2021

Extractive Commodity Trading

This report presents the findings of a pilot study on ESG due diligence and transparency policies and practices among a sample of 25 companies in the extractive commodity trading sector.

September 17, 2020

Mining and the SDGs: a 2020 status update

This report provides a status update of what large-scale mining companies are currently doing to integrate the SDGs into their business strategies and to take proactive measures that will help deliver these Goals.

February 9, 2022

Why is gender still off the agenda of mining companies?

The Responsible Mining Foundation has been tracking gender action by mining companies since 2017 and the latest results are just in. The findings again show striking contrasts in what companies choose to focus on – gender balance in headquarter teams is quite widely addressed while gender in affected communities is largely ignored.

December 2, 2021

Beyond emissions reductions: climate change and mining

Commendable and important as mining companies’ commitments to become carbon-neutral are, emissions reduction is only one element of a responsible response to climate change. Recent research by RMF reveals that action to assess and address climate-related risks on people and environments impacted by mining – yet essential for a just transition – is conspicuously missing from current efforts by mining companies.

September 27, 2021

Fostering community-company engagement to address environmental impacts of mining

Recent initiatives by ETH and RMF illustrate the potential for mining-affected communities to actively engage with local mining companies on environmental issues.

June 18, 2021

Commodity trading transactions with governments: corporate transparency still rare

Recent research by RMF shows that very few of the companies making these trades disclose data about the payments they make. Normalisation of the public disclosure of commodity trading transactions is critically important to support financial integrity and good governance of extractive resources.

February 18, 2021

Time to normalise respect and remedy for Human Rights in mining

What is the current status of human rights in the mining sector? Ten years after the adoption of the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (UNGPs), data from the RMI Report 2020 shows that the large mining companies assessed score on average a low 19% on human rights-related issues.

January 21, 2021

Tailings risks: maintaining momentum

At the second anniversary of the tailings dam burst in Brumadinho, Brazil that killed at least 270 people and destroyed the livelihoods and environments for many others, the mining industry seems more willing than ever to take the issue of tailings risks seriously.