Barrick Gold mining differentiates itself by focusing its efforts on exploration and on innovation. They are directing work toward building and maintaining new pipeline projects in the following areas: Cortez Hills in Nevada; Pueblo Viejo in the Dominican Republic; Buzwagi in Tanzania; PascuaLama, Chile/Argentina; Buzwagi, Alaska, the US; Reko Diq, Pakistan; Sedibelo, South Africa; Federova, Russia; Tanzania; Donlin Creek,and Kabanga, Tanzania. These explorations are taking place over sixteen different countries, providing many sources for potential growth and new openings for ounces. They host a team of over one hundred and fifty geoscientists that are the industry experts in exploring new fields and opportunities for mining growth. They mainly focus on reserve development and replacement of production, which are key for a mining company’s long term success.
Company’s strategy is based in operational excellence and community
Barrick Gold seeks to earn revenue for its shareholders while maintaining a focus on renewable energy, reducing injuries of its employees, and leading by example in today’s environmentally conscious world. They aim to benefit both owners of the company and the world in its entirety, through a multitude of methods: they try, wherever possible, to use local resources and employment in order to have a smaller and more personal feel, and to familiarize themselves with the locals around the base locations.
Community development is a Barrick priority
Barrick invests in building surrounding communities through education, Barrick provides ommunity programs and initiatives in all areas where they choose to operate. How they strategize and invest depends on the needs and location of local communities and regional gove...
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Barrick’s strategy for future success rests in more honest policy
Barrick’s emphasis on community and development for maximizing return for shareholders has not seen enough success due to environmentally unsound practices and the controversies arising from them. They should invest more into becoming the company they advertise to be, so that environmental outcry does not hinder their performance. They have been moving into new areas for mining, but have not been open with the natives to that area about the potentially toxic and disastrous effects that their projects will have, so even building schools and medical centers is not good enough to keep surrounding communities happy. In order to improve public image and create a better name for themselves, they must comply with the standards they have put in place in their company vision.
The Pebble mine project is a copper and gold deposit in its progressive expedition phase. The area of this project is located near the Bristol Bay region in southwest Alaska. The West side of Pebble contains approximately 4.1 billion metric tons. The East location contains 3.4 million metric tons. This range altogether contains 7.5 billion metric tons of high quality minerals. The debate of this project lies on the dangers to the surrounding environment, and the economic boost for the community.
Royal Dutch Shell also known as Shell, completed its acquisition of BG Group on 15 Feb 2016 with end up negotiation with $70 billion to take over BG Group. The defenses raid start since year 2015. Many people think that Shell act to take over BG is not a good trend because the BG is getting bigger and bigger, many others oil company like Chevron Corporation, ExxonMobil Corporation which is one of the biggest and famous oil company are give up to take over BG, because BG is very expensive, even BG got great resource and nice potential to make their company roses. In long term investing, Merger arbitrage and trading isn’t usually the bad way but by buying into the BG-Shell deal, not only do investors stand to profit from the merger, they’ll
In 1997, Australia produced 158 million tonnes of iron ore. However, in 2007, this figure had more than doubled with a total of 320 million tonnes (U.S. Geological Survey, 2008). Such a significant change is partly attributed to the continuous expansion and diversification of the industry’s two key players, Rio Tinto Group and BHP Billiton, into the Pilbara region of northwestern Australia. Other sensitivities include environmental and social demands, technological advancements, and research and development amongst others. It must be noted that each of these factors can be drawn back to a single title that is a major influence on industries worldwide: globalisation. ‘Figure 2’ shows the production levels of iron ore over the 2006-07 period, and its export value compared to other mined minerals.
Fortune 500 Ranking. Johnson & Johnson is a “Go Green” corporation. They have goals to keep their culturing compa...
After conducting a basic 10 year financial analysis of the company, it has become evident that even with a highly competitive market structure they are able to improve on their performance. Ranging from 2004 to 2013 financial information, the company has shown a significant increase in their sales revenue roughly $3865 million sales in 2004 to almost four time that valuing $12970 million in 2013, which was an “increase of 10.4% over the 53 week prior year” The company’s growth strategy has been to diversify its product market and make them...
The subsoil is likewise a source of riches. An example of this is the world’s largest open cast coalmine, located on the peninsula of La Guajira, which pro...
The Political, Social, and Legal Environment of Business. Case Study Analysis: Union Carbide Corporation and Bhopal. A single slip in action may cause lasting sorrow. A slight mistake in operation at a Union Carbide pesticide plant in Bhopal, India, caused a lot of deaths and injuries. What a tragedy it is.
Objectives • To evaluate the difficulty of mining and reclamation To calculate costs, expenses, income, and profit from a hands-on mining exercise. • To evaluate the effectiveness of reclamation and its added costs to mining. To describe the increasing rarity of some non-renewable mineral resources. Introduction Minerals play an important role in our day-to-day life, but we often do not contemplate how the minerals are obtained. Minerals are scattered all over the world, just like any other resource.
In a typical year, the mining industry is responsible for almost 20 per cent of Canada's total export earnings3 (See Appendix A). As for the employment rate, over 70 per cent of the mines are owned by Canadians and approximately 108,000 Canadians are directly employed in the mining industry4. Mining is very important in Canadian life. Not only do the products power the family car and heat the family home, the manufacturing sector, the high tech industries and even the better known resource industries are all dependent, in some way, on the mining industry. The mining industry will continue to be an important support to the economy. Mining is taking full advantage of the quick expansion of computers and microelectronics.
This company has come a long way into the sustainable and triple bottom line world. “Four wind turbines were erected in 2013 to reduce the use of diesel fuel, which had to be trucked in on a 550-km ice road at a cost of $70 million a year” (Hamilton, 2016). Wind turbines are put into place to create electricity through the spinning of the propellers. Mines are underground therefore it is extremely crucial to have electricity through renewable energy to create light for the miners underground because of the darkness being created. More importantly, if every corporation were to include the triple bottom line in their business goals, it would aid with climate change and global
BP is not alone with its marketing practices. General Electric (GE), an American firm and among the largest in the company, frequently exploits the green image to push its own brand. While on the cutting edge of developing renewable energy technologies, GE pushes its business at the expense of natural dignity. The earth becomes a giant problematic marble, hurtling through space, according to GE’s advertising, and GE knows how to fix
Though it has had many negative impacts on the environment in the past, mining is a vital industry completely necessary to our economy and lives. Nearly every item we use or encounter in our day to day lives is mined or contains mined products. Without the excavation of such materials things like computers, televisions, large building structures, electricity, and cars would not be possible. Virtually every technological and medical advance uses minded materials, without which millions would suffer. Some examples of minerals in the home include the telephone which is made from as many as 42 different minerals, including aluminum, beryllium, coal, copper, gold, iron, silver, and talc. A television requires over 35 different minerals, and more than 30 minerals are needed to make a single personal computer. Without boron, copper, gold and quartz, your digital alarm clock would not work. Every American uses an average 47,000 pounds of newly mined materials each year, which is higher than all other countries with the exception of Japan, which is a staggering figure representative of our dependence and need for mined minerals. Coal makes up more than half of nation’s electricity, and will continue to be the largest electrical supplier into 2020 & accounting for some 95 percent of the nation's fossil energy reserves – nine of every ten short-tons of coal mined in the United States is used for electricity generation. As the population of the world grows more mineral resources must be exploited through mining in order to support the rising demand for such products. Though it may present a hazard to the environment and those physically located nears the mines, the materials extracted from mines...
Scandals at Enron, WorldCom and elsewhere undermined trust in big business and led to heavy-handed government regulation. And because of these examples of irresponsible behavior companies have to watch their every step. Investors too, are starting to show more interest. For example, $1 out of every $9 under professional management in America now involves an element of “socially responsible investment”, according to Geoffrey Heal of Columbia Business School. Some of the big banks, including Goldman Sachs and UBS, have started to integrate environmental, social and governance issues in some of their equity research. True, the finance industry sends mixed signals: it demands good financial results above all else, and in parts of the financial world—notably the private-equity part. But private equity itself has to respond to public pressure about being green, or they might see a large slide in support, which translates to loss of capital gains. We know that investors, when they look at a company and decide whether to invest, they look at financial data, metrics like sales growth, cash flow, market share, valuation, and just the same, nowadays they need to consider E.S.G. I am talking about the environment, social, and governance. The environment includes: energy consumption, water availability, and waste/pollution. Social
Mining is the process or industry of obtaining minerals from the earth. Topics in this paper I’ll be specifically discussing are pros and cons of mining, structures of a mine, mining in general, California gold rush, diamonds in Africa, and comparison of diamond and gold mines.
Warhurst, A. (1999). Mining and the environment: case studies from the Americas. Ottawa, ON, Canada: International Development Research Centre.