Green Africa Minerals believes that all activities associated with exploration and mining can either positively or negatively impact the environment. We’re focused on preventing and mitigating all adverse impacts.

Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) compliance is imperative to our strategy, success and sustainability. These will be integrated into all our risk assessments and endeavours and made a priority.

We’ll be working closely with regulators to thoroughly evaluate potential risks on every project we undertake. As we progress from feasibility to project construction, sustainability will be in sharp focus. How we do business is important. We’ll work to gain a 360-degree understanding of the ESG context in which we operate in every scenario and mine responsibly.

Starting with the Morogoro Graphite Project in Tanzania, where we’re preparing to enter the drilling phase, we have an integrated focus on ESG management. ESG principles will be incorporated in all phases of project development.

Ahead of drilling, we’ve appointed an ESG coordinator to focus on broad-based community and stakeholder engagement at Morogoro. A baseline assessment to understand the character of the terrain and project area is planned and we intend to minimise our carbon footprint as we explore.

GAM leadership have the prerequisite experience to fill the four broad skill gaps usually faced by early-stage projects in Africa: regional knowledge, an ESG-focussed approach, geological expertise and downstream experience.

To standardise, we’ll be monitoring and reporting our environmental performance against standards set by two organisations, Digbee and the Initiative for Reporting and Mining Assurance (IRMA).