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Mining Sustainability Consulting

Mining Sustainability & Certification Standards

Align your mining operations with global sustainability standards. ECG prepares you for CMSI, IRMA, ICMM, and TSM certifications.

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Mining sustainability consulting helps companies meet certification standards and maintain a social license to operate. ECG supports mining firms in aligning with frameworks like CMSI, IRMA, ICMM and TSM.

Our Mining ESG & Certification Consulting Services

We guide mining firms through assessments, implementation, and reporting strategies to achieve certification and improve ESG performance.

  • Gap Assessments: Evaluate your current operations against IRMA, ICMM, TSM, and CMSI criteria to identify compliance gaps and prioritize corrective actions.
  • Certification Readiness: Prepare the documentation, systems, and training needed to undergo third-party audits and meet verification standards.
  • Policy & Procedure Development: Draft or revise sustainability policies, ESG performance frameworks, and stakeholder engagement protocols in line with certification standards.
  • Materiality & Risk Analysis: Identify environmental, social, and governance risks across your mining lifecycle—from exploration to closure—and integrate them into your decision-making.

Why Mining Sustainability Matters

Sustainability is increasingly a requirement—not just a value-add—for accessing capital, permitting projects, and securing long-term viability.

  • License to Operate: ESG compliance is often a prerequisite for stakeholder support, financing, and project approval.
  • Supply Chain & Investor Requirements: Major buyers and financiers require transparent ESG performance and adherence to standards like CMSI, IRMA or ICMM.
  • Regulatory Alignment: Frameworks like CMSI and ICMM help mining companies meet emerging national and global sustainability regulations.
  • Reputation & Market Access: Certification improves your public and partner image, enabling entry into markets with high ESG expectations.

What ECG Delivers for Mining Companies

  • Strategic and Technical Advisory
    – Gap assessments against IRMA, TSM, CMSI, and ICMM requirements
    – ESG risk and opportunity identification across operations and projects
    – Actionable roadmaps for certification readiness and performance improvement
  • Operational Integration
    – Translation of standards into practical policies, procedures, and controls
    – Support for environmental management, health & safety, labor, and community engagement
    – Alignment of site-level practices with corporate ESG strategy
  • Audit and  Assurance Readiness
    – Pre-assessment support and internal audits
    – Data integrity reviews and evidence preparation
    – Ongoing performance tracking and continuous improvement programs

Why ECG Global Solutions

Bridging Mining Performance and Market Expectations
ECG bridges producers and purchasers – helping mining companies credibly demonstrate responsible practices
while helping buyers secure compliant, transparent, low-risk supply chains.

Our approach enables:

  • Stronger market access and customer confidence
  • Reduced ESG, regulatory, and reputational risk
  • Predicting climate and social risk in sourcing
  • Alignment with investor and lender expectations
  • Long-term value creation through responsible operations


ECG has a strong history of working with global companies such as: Anglo American, Eramet, Livent, Rio Tinto,
Amazon, Starbucks, Apple, Google, HP, Microsoft, The Home Depot, as well as major automotive manufacturers,
luxury goods companies, NGOs, and government agencies.

Global Mining Standards We Support

ECG offers expert support in aligning your mine operations with key international frameworks:

 

  • CMSI (Consolidated Mining Standard Initiative): A global effort to harmonize leading mining standards and improve consistency, credibility, and assurance across responsible mining requirements.
  • IRMA: A comprehensive standard for responsible mining, covering environmental impact, labor, human rights, and community engagement.
  • ICMM: Offers principles for sustainable development, transparent reporting, and ethical mining across the globe.
  • TSM: Canada’s industry-led sustainability standard with performance protocols on tailings management, biodiversity, Indigenous engagement, and more.
  • ResponsibleSteel & ASI: For companies producing or sourcing iron, steel, or aluminum, ECG helps implement ResponsibleSteel and Aluminum Stewardship Initiative (ASI) standards.

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