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Mine Construction Environmental and Social Management Programme

Our client: Eldorado Gold

The brief and what we did: Our client needed support for a transformational, €1 billion new mine, in an area with important and sensitive biodiversity and water resources, as well as a history of community relationship and regulatory challenges.

Working with our client we developed an environmental and social management and reporting system. A compliance tool was developed to consolidate a complex number of regulatory and lender requirements. New and revised governance documents were prepared, including policies and plans/procedures,performance reporting metric, as well as a work site and activity specific inspection programme.

The outcome: A new environmental and social management system was developed to integrate environmental and social risks, impacts and opportunities into the planning of construction work, contractor selection and onboarding, and project execution. The system provided our client with a structured approach for interfacing with and reporting to ex