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Liz Freele, Sympact Advisory
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MINING'S BRIGHTER FUTURE PODCAST. Join Liz Freele of Sympact Advisory to explore mining's role in shaping a more sustainable, socially just and brighter future!

Episodes

  1. Mining and the Circular Economy (Alan Young)

    2021-10-26

    Mining and the Circular Economy (Alan Young)

    CREDITS: Host - Elizabeth Freele, Sympact (https://www.linkedin.com/in/efreele/)  Audio Editor - Geoff Bremner (https://www.linkedin.com/in/geoffreybremner/) Producer & Editor - Tommy Lee (https://www.linkedin.com/in/tomelee/)  Assistant Editor - Emielia Dahl-Sam (https://www.linkedin.com/in/emielia-d...)  Sponsor - Sympact (https://www.sympact.ca/)  CONNECT LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/symp...  Website: https://www.sympact.ca/  Email: hello@sympact.ca  SELECT EPISODE LINKS: Alan Young: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alan-youn...  International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD): https://www.iisd.org/  Circular Economy Leadership Coalition: https://circulareconomyleaders.ca/  Initiative for Responsible Mining Assurance (IRMA): https://responsiblemining.net/  Materials Efficiency Research Group (MERG): https://merg.ca/ Cameco: https://www.cameco.com/  Repurposing mineral/metal waste into high-value commodities: Thallium (Mined in Trail, BC), Germanium Sudbury, carbon capture technology: https://www.sudburyminingsolutions.co...  ELYSIS (ELYSIS is a Canadian company delivering a disruptive technology for the aluminium smelting industry generating oxygen as a by-product): https://www.elysis.com/en/what-is-elysis Robert Friedland: https://www.ivanhoemines.com/about/bo...  World Circular Economy Forum, Mining for Circularity, 2020: https://circulareconomyleaders.ca/min...  Mark Cutifani, CEO of Anglo-American spoke to the imperative of a circular economy & the mining companies’ transition to “materials solutions companies”: https://circulareconomyleaders.ca/min...  International Resource Panel, “materials leasing”: https://www.resourcepanel.org/  Industry leaders in integrating circular principles into mining operations: Anglo American (https://www.angloamerican.com/about-u...  Rio Tinto: https://www.riotinto.com/en/sustainab...  BHP: https://www.bhp.com/media-and-insight...  Teck Resources: https://www.teck.com/news/stories/202...  ArcelorMittal: https://corporate.arcelormittal.com/s...  Agnico Eagle: https://www.agnicoeagle.com/English/t...  Prof. Daniel Franks: https://researchers.uq.edu.au/researc...

    1h 4m
  2. Tech Entrants - Miners of the Future? (Kurt House, PhD)

    2021-10-19

    Tech Entrants - Miners of the Future? (Kurt House, PhD)

    CREDITS: Host - Elizabeth Freele, Sympact (https://www.linkedin.com/in/efreele/)  Audio Editor - Geoff Bremner (https://www.linkedin.com/in/geoffreybremner/) Producer & Editor - Tommy Lee (https://www.linkedin.com/in/tomelee/)  Assistant Editor - Emielia Dahl-Sam (https://www.linkedin.com/in/emielia-d...)  Sponsor - Sympact (https://www.sympact.ca/)  CONNECT LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/symp...  Website: https://www.sympact.ca/  Email: hello@sympact.ca  SELECT EPISODE LINKS: Kurt House: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kurtzenzh...  KoBold Metals: https://www.koboldmetals.com/  Machine Prospecting & TerraShed (Two core technologies of Kobold Metals): https://www.koboldmetals.com/about-us/  Machine Prospecting is the “Google Maps of the Earth's crust” - Connie Chan, general partner at Andreessen Horowitz: https://www.linkedin.com/in/conniechan/  Andreessen Horowitz: https://a16z.com/ Breakthrough Energy Ventures: https://www.breakthroughenergy.org/  Peter Lightfoot (MAGMATIC SYSTEMS LEAD, KoBold Metals) - a geologist on the KoBold team whose expertise is critical to the development of their technology: https://www.linkedin.com/in/peterclig...  Peter Lightfoot was the chief geologist at Vale: http://www.lightfootgeoscience.ca/abo...  Voisey’s Bay, Labrador (Vale’s open-pit mine): http://www.vale.com/canada/EN/aboutva...  Thompson, Manitoba (Vale): http://www.vale.com/canada/en/busines...  Sudbury (Vale): http://www.vale.com/canada/en/aboutva...  David Broughton (HYDROTHERMAL SYSTEMS LEAD, KoBold Metals) - a geologist on the KoBold team whose expertise is critical to the development of their technology: https://www.koboldmetals.com/team/  David Broughton Kamoa KaKula when he was head of exploration, Ivanhoe (https://www.ivanhoemines.com/projects...)  Nickel, cobalt, lithium, copper are critical EV metals for the green energy transition: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science...  Tesla Gigafactory Register (EV manufacturers vertically integrating): https://www.tesla.com/careers/gigafac...

    59 min
  3. Shifting from Closure to Transition (Peter Whitbread-Abrutat, PhD)

    2021-10-12

    Shifting from Closure to Transition (Peter Whitbread-Abrutat, PhD)

    CREDITS: Host - Elizabeth Freele, Sympact (https://www.linkedin.com/in/efreele/)  Audio Editor - Geoff Bremner (https://www.linkedin.com/in/geoffreybremner/) Producer & Editor - Tommy Lee (https://www.linkedin.com/in/tomelee/)  Assistant Editor - Emielia Dahl-Sam (https://www.linkedin.com/in/emielia-d...)  Sponsor - Sympact (https://www.sympact.ca/)  CONNECT LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/symp...  Website: https://www.sympact.ca/  Email: hello@sympact.ca  SELECT EPISODE LINKS: Peter Whitbread-Abrutat: https://www.linkedin.com/in/peter-whi...  Future Terrains: https://futureterrains.org/  David Attenborough's programs (A key turning point for Peter in getting him involved in environmental issues): https://www.ourplanet.com/en/video/da...  101 Things to Do with a Hole in the Ground: https://futureterrains.org/project/10....  The Eden Project, Cornwall: https://www.edenproject.com/  Restoration of the landscape of the old lignite mining fields of Eastern Germany: https://nationalpost.com/pmn/travel-p...  National Orphaned/Abandoned Mines Initiative (Canada): https://www.abandoned-mines.org/en/  ICMM's Integrated Mine Closure: Good practice guide (2nd edition, 2019): https://www.icmm.com/en-gb/guidance/e....

    40 min
  4. Low-Carbon Mining for a Low-Carbon Future (Chih-Ting Lo)

    2021-10-05

    Low-Carbon Mining for a Low-Carbon Future (Chih-Ting Lo)

    CREDITS: Host - Elizabeth Freele, Sympact (https://www.linkedin.com/in/efreele/)  Audio Editor - Geoff Bremner (https://www.linkedin.com/in/geoffreybremner/) Producer & Editor - Tommy Lee (https://www.linkedin.com/in/tomelee/)  Assistant Editor - Emielia Dahl-Sam (https://www.linkedin.com/in/emielia-d...)  Sponsor - Sympact (https://www.sympact.ca/)  CONNECT LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/symp...  Website: https://www.sympact.ca/  Email: hello@sympact.ca  SELECT EPISODE LINKS: Chih-Ting Lo: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chihtinglo/  EELO Solutions: http://www.eelo.ca/  Organizations which have developed due to increasing pressure to disclose carbon emissions: Task Force on Climate-Related Financial Disclosures: https://www.fsb-tcfd.org/  COMET, the Coalition on Materials Emissions Transparency: https://ccsi.columbia.edu/content/coa...  Industry examples of electrification: Rail-Veyer: https://www.railveyor.com/  RopeCon: https://www.doppelmayr.com/products/r...  Newmont's Borden Gold Mine: https://miningglobal.com/smart-mining...  Glencore’s Sudbury Integrated Nickel Operations (INO) in Canada are looking to develop one of the world’s first mines wholly operated by battery electric-powered vehicles (EVs): https://www.glencore.com/media-and-in...  OZ Minerals electrifying Carrapateena Mine: https://im-mining.com/2020/12/22/oz-m...  South32’s electrification of mine in Arizona: https://www.south32.net/our-business/...  CarbonCure - recycles CO2 into fresh concrete: https://www.carboncure.com/  Carbon Cure has been invested in by Amazon and Breakthrough Energy Ventures: https://www.carboncure.com/news/amazo...  Scope 1, 2, 3 emissions: https://www.carbontrust.com/resources....

    50 min
  5. Alternative Capital & Financing Innovation (Peter Bryant)

    2021-09-28

    Alternative Capital & Financing Innovation (Peter Bryant)

    CREDITS: Host - Elizabeth Freele, Sympact (https://www.linkedin.com/in/efreele/) Audio Editor - Geoff Bremner (https://www.linkedin.com/in/geoffreybremner/)  Producer & Editor - Tommy Lee (https://www.linkedin.com/in/tomelee/)  Assistant Editor - Emielia Dahl-Sam (https://www.linkedin.com/in/emielia-d...)  Sponsor - Sympact (https://www.sympact.ca/)  CONNECT LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/symp...  Website: https://www.sympact.ca/  Email: hello@sympact.ca  SELECT EPISODE LINKS: Peter Bryant: https://www.linkedin.com/in/peter-bry...  Chrysalix: https://chrysalix.com/  Foundamental: https://foundamental.com/  Clareo: https://clareo.com/  Clareo Report by Peter Bryant, "Innovation: Turning Aspiration into Action & Impact": https://cdn2.hubspot.net/hubfs/409152...  Development Partner Institute: https://www.dpimining.org/  SafeAI: https://safeai.ai/  Lilac Solutions (http://www.lilacsolutions.com/),  invested in by Breakthrough Energy Ventures (http://www.lilacsolutions.com/news/ta...)  Anglo-American, FutureSmart Mining: https://www.angloamerican.com/futures...  Teck Resources RACE21: https://www.teck.com/news/connect/iss...  Anaconda Mining (junior gold producer, northern Canada): https://www.anacondamining.com/  Hydrogen Forward: https://www.hydrogenfwd.org/  Private Equity for mining: Appian private equity: https://appiancapitaladvisory.com/  Resource Capital Funds: https://resourcecapitalfunds.com/  Project finance: Equilibrium Capital: https://eq-cap.com/  BP Ventures Mining presence in Silicon Valley: Sumitomo Corporation (https://www.sumitomocorp.com/en/jp),  Caterpillar Ventures (https://www.caterpillar.com/en/compan...),  BHP Ventures (https://www.afr.com/companies/mining/...)  National Collaboration Strategy for the Mining Industry, Natural Resources Canada (2017): https://www.nrcan.gc.ca/sites/www.nrc...  Insitigator Cleantech startups Innovation article by Vinod Khosla: https://www.khoslaventures.com/a-few-...

    33 min
  6. The Rise of Impact Investing (Andrew Cheatle)

    2021-09-21

    The Rise of Impact Investing (Andrew Cheatle)

    CREDITS: Host - Elizabeth Freele, Sympact (https://www.linkedin.com/in/efreele/)  Audio Editor - Geoff Bremner (https://www.linkedin.com/in/geoffreybremner/) Producer & Editor - Tommy Lee (https://www.linkedin.com/in/tomelee/)  Assistant Editor - Emielia Dahl-Sam (https://www.linkedin.com/in/emielia-d...)  Sponsor - Sympact (https://www.sympact.ca/)  CONNECT LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/symp...  Website: https://www.sympact.ca/  Email: hello@sympact.ca  SELECT EPISODE LINKS: Andrew Cheatle: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrew-ch...  Director of Tanzanian Gold Corporation (https://www.reuters.com/companies/TRX),  the Non-Executive Director of Condor Gold (http://ca.condorgold.com/),  and as the Director of Troilus Gold (https://www.troilusgold.com/)  Anglo-American - Impact Catalyst, Limpopo: https://southafrica.angloamerican.com...  IAMGOLD - solar panel fields in Burkina Faso: https://www.bba.ca/project/integratin...  World Gold Council - Gold mining’s contribution to the UN SDGs: https://www.gold.org/about-gold/gold-...  On the investor side: Value Balancing Alliance: https://www.value-balancing.com/  Harvard’s Impact Weighted Accounts: https://www.hbs.edu/impact-weighted-a...  IFC (https://www.ifc.org/wps/wcm/connect/c...)  NetZero Metals: https://www.spglobal.com/platts/en/ma...  Nouveau Monde: https://nouveaumonde.group/  Placer Dome, the development of Wasaya airways: https://www.wasaya.com/destinations/c...

    44 min
  7. Inclusive Mining (Jamile Cruz)

    2021-09-15

    Inclusive Mining (Jamile Cruz)

    CREDITS: Host - Elizabeth Freele, Sympact (https://www.linkedin.com/in/efreele/)  Audio Editor - Geoff Bremner (https://www.linkedin.com/in/geoffreybremner/) Producer & Editor - Tommy Lee (https://www.linkedin.com/in/tomelee/)  Assistant Editor - Emielia Dahl-Sam (https://www.linkedin.com/in/emielia-d...)  Sponsor - Sympact (https://www.sympact.ca/)  CONNECT LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/symp...  Website: https://www.sympact.ca/  Email: hello@sympact.ca SELECT EPISODE LINKS: Jamile Cruz: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jamilegcr...  I&D 101: https://ind101.com/  The 360° Corporation: From Stakeholder Trade-offs to Transformation by Sarah Kaplan, Professor of Gender & the Economy and Professor of Strategic Management at the Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto (https://sarahkaplan.info/the360corpor...)  BHP Gender Equation: https://www.bhp.com/media-and-insight...  (Canada) women represent just 16% of the mining workforce and we have the lowest representation of women on boards of any other sector, that includes oil and gas, tech, manufacturing (https://civmin.utoronto.ca/from-betwe...)  The Mining Association of Canada’s (MAC) commitment to strengthen equity, diversity and inclusion in workplace culture, policies, procedures and practices (https://www.mining-journal.com/leader...)  Artemis Project: https://www.linkedin.com/company/arte...  The Intelligent Miner: https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-...  Responsible Mining Foundation: https://www.linkedin.com/company/resp...  Mining Industry Human Resources Council (MiHR): https://www.linkedin.com/company/mini...  Women in Mining Brazil (https://www.wimbrasil.org/?lang=en)  Women In Mining UK (WIM UK): https://www.linkedin.com/company/wome...  Women in Mining Canada: https://www.linkedin.com/company/wome...  Prospectors & Developers Association of Canada (PDAC): https://www.linkedin.com/company/thep...  Women in Male-Dominated Industries (WIMDI): https://www.linkedin.com/company/wome...  Women Who Rock: https://www.linkedin.com/company/wome...  Technologies: TalVista: https://www.linkedin.com/company/talv...  Pymetrics: https://www.linkedin.com/company/pyme...  Equal Reality: https://www.linkedin.com/company/equa...  Praxis Labs: https://www.linkedin.com/company/prax...

    1h 3m
  8. Community-Driven Mining (Andy Reynolds)

    2021-09-07

    Community-Driven Mining (Andy Reynolds)

    CREDITS: Host - Elizabeth Freele, Sympact (https://www.linkedin.com/in/efreele/)  Producer & Editor - Tommy Lee (https://www.linkedin.com/in/tomelee/)  Audio Editor - Geoff Bremner (https://www.linkedin.com/in/geoffreybremner/) Assistant Editor - Emielia Dahl-Sam (https://www.linkedin.com/in/emielia-d...)  Sponsor - Sympact (https://www.sympact.ca/)  CONNECT LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/symp... Website: https://www.sympact.ca/ Email: hello@sympact.ca  SELECT EPISODE LINKS: Andy Reynolds (https://www.linkedin.com/in/reynoldsa...)  Inspire Resources (https://www.inspire-resources.ca/)  Energy, Mining and Environment, National Research Council of Canada (https://nrc.canada.ca/en/research-dev...)  Paul Polman (Unilever): opportunities for changing investors/shareholders; responsibility of a company is to multiple stakeholders (https://www.forbes.com/sites/andyboyn...)  Emerging technologies in mining: Blockchain & smart contracts (https://www.whitecase.com/publication...)  Interval Control - e.g., Global Mining Guidelines Group (https://gmggroup.org/projects/short-i...)  AI - e.g., Microsoft’s SA Mining Core (https://www.miningreview.com/gold/mic...)  Natural resource ownership shifting to communities (over 4,000 community-owned renewable energy projects, globally), IRENA (https://www.irena.org/-/media/Files/I...)  Platform business model: Oren Marketplace, Shell & IBM (https://content.orenmarketplace.com/p...)  Sustainable Development Goals, UN (https://sdgs.un.org/goals)  Mineral Impulse, Inspire Resources (https://www.inspire-resources.ca/abou...)  What is the democratization of AI? (https://www.bmc.com/blogs/democratiza...)

    38 min
  9. Indigenizing Mining (Allen Edzerza)

    2021-09-01

    Indigenizing Mining (Allen Edzerza)

    CREDITS: Host - Elizabeth Freele, Sympact (https://www.linkedin.com/in/efreele/)  Producer & Editor - Tommy Lee (https://www.linkedin.com/in/tomelee/)  Audio Editor - Geoff Bremner (https://www.linkedin.com/in/geoffreybremner/)  Assistant Editor - Emielia Dahl-Sam (https://www.linkedin.com/in/emielia-d...)  Sponsor - Sympact (https://www.sympact.ca/)  CONNECT LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/symp...  Website: https://www.sympact.ca/ Email: hello@sympact.ca  SELECT EPISODE LINKS: Tahltan Nation: https://tahltan.org/  Cheona Metals: https://cheonametals.com/  The BC Mineral Tenure Act: Salmon Gold Project with RESOLVE: https://www.resolve.ngo/salmon_gold.htm (Gold produced under the Salmon Gold project is purchased by Apple and Tiffany)  Deer Horn Capital: https://deerhorncapital.ca/  The BC Mineral Tenure Act: https://www.bclaws.gov.bc.ca/civix/do...  Integrating the UNDRIP articles into mining policy: https://indigenousfoundations.arts.ub...  IRMA: https://responsiblemining.net/  Impact and Benefit Agreements (IBA): https://lop.parl.ca/sites/PublicWebsi....  Free, Prior, and Informed Consent (FPIC): https://www.kairoscanada.org/what-we-...

    59 min
  10. Collaborative Development in the Digital Age (Tracey Cooper)

    2021-08-25

    Collaborative Development in the Digital Age (Tracey Cooper)

    CREDITS: Host - Elizabeth Freele, Sympact (https://www.linkedin.com/in/efreele/)  Producer & Editor - Tommy Lee (https://www.linkedin.com/in/tomelee/)  Audio Editor - Geoff Bremner (https://www.linkedin.com/in/geoffreybremner/)  Assistant Editor - Emielia Dahl-Sam (https://www.linkedin.com/in/emielia-d...)  Sponsor - Sympact (https://www.sympact.ca/)  CONNECT LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/symp...  Website: https://www.sympact.ca/ Email: hello@sympact.ca  SELECT EPISODE LINKS: Tracey Cooper, Mining Dialogues 360°: http://www.miningdialogues360.co.za/  Information currently sitting in silos: Responsible Minerals Initiative (RMI): http://www.responsiblemineralsinitiat...  World Mining Fund: https://www.blackrock.com/hk/en/produ...  International Council on Mining and Metals (ICMM): https://www.icmm.com/  Glencore Mt Isa Air Quality Smartphone Monitoring app (AQMI): https://im-mining.com/2018/04/06/glen...  Socio-Economic Technology Initiative (SETI): https://saiia.org.za/research/mining-...  Wits Mining Institute Digimine: https://www.wits.ac.za/wmi/digimine/

    1h 7m
  11. What is “Responsible” Mining? (John Thompson, PhD)​

    2021-08-17

    What is “Responsible” Mining? (John Thompson, PhD)​

    CREDITS: Host - Elizabeth Freele, Sympact (https://www.linkedin.com/in/efreele/)  Producer & Editor - Tommy Lee (https://www.linkedin.com/in/tomelee/)  Audio Editor - Geoff Bremner (https://www.linkedin.com/in/geoffreybremner/)  Assistant Editor - Emielia Dahl-Sam (https://www.linkedin.com/in/emielia-d...)  Sponsor - Sympact (https://www.sympact.ca/)  CONNECT LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/symp...  Website: https://www.sympact.ca/ Email: hello@sympact.ca  SELECT EPISODE LINKS: Wikipedia’s Responsible Mining page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Respons...  First documented use of the term “responsible”: City Miner, Volume 4, 1979:https://voices.revealdigital.org/?a=d...  SRK Consulting, "Responsible Mining: Jargon Fountain or a Material Shift in ESG Performance Drivers?": https://www.srk.com/en/publications/r...  A Measure of the SLO for Infrastructure and Extractive Projects: https://www.researchgate.net/publicat...  CSIRO: Building trust is key to mining's 'social licence': https://www.csiro.au/en/news/news-rel...  Dr. John Thompson (https://minesense.com/goverance-team/...),  Board Member, MinseSense (https://minesense.com/our-company/);  Director and past-Chair, Canadian Mining Innovation Council (https://www.cim.org/library/canada-mi...  Current Chair, Geoscience BC (http://www.geosciencebc.com/)  Social License to Operate (https://socialicense.com/definition.html) → presents a moment in time; ‘responsible’ mining requires consistent improvement & the recognition of its place within larger systems Investment community trending towards sustainable minerals (https://www2.deloitte.com/us/en/insig...)  RESPONSIBLE MINING FRAMEWORKS AND STANDARDS: Responsible Mining: Case Studies in Managing Social & Environmental Risks in the Developed World: http://www.academia.edu/22699611/Resp...  Responsible Mining Key Principles for Industry Integrity, Earthscan from Routledge: https://www.routledge.com/Responsible....  Responsible mining? Challenges, perspectives and approaches, German Environment Agency: https://www.umweltbundesamt.de/sites/...  Responsible Mining Index: https://2020.responsibleminingindex.o...  Responsible Mining Foundation: https://www.responsibleminingfoundati...  Initiative for Responsible Mining Assurance: https://responsiblemining.net/  Alliance for Responsible Mining: https://www.responsiblemines.org/en/w...  World Gold Council: https://www.gold.org/

    31 min
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