The Intergovernmental Forum on Mining, Minerals, Metals and Sustainable Development (IGF) has published a report aimed at pushing governments to promote gender equality in the mining sector. The paper, published yesterday to coincide with International Women’s Day, found that in many countries, mining laws and regulations...
The Intergovernmental Forum on Mining, Minerals, Metals and Sustainable Development (IGF) has highlighted key consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic on employment in the global mining sector, in a new report. The report was released during IGF’s virtual AGM this week, and outlines three key issues facing...
Mining Indaba and the Intergovernmental Forum on Mining, Minerals, Metals and Sustainable Development (IGF) brought together a number of major industry organisations on October 17th to discuss the role of communities in shaping the development of Africa’s mining sector. The meeting took place at the IGF’s...
Thousands of stakeholders from the mining world attended the final two days of the 2017 Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada (PDAC) convention, which imparted industry leaders with a resoundingly optimistic message going into the rest of the year and beyond. The Intergovernmental Forum on Mining,...