Land management
Responsible land management is integral to our operations and we are committed to restoring, maintaining and enhancing the landscapes in which we work.
Our commitment
We are committed to upholding responsible land management practices, ensuring our development activities and operations minimise impacts to the environment, cultural heritage and social surrounds, while sustaining ecosystems and respecting the rights of other landholders.
Our management approach
Land disturbance is an inevitable part of the mining process and MinRes recognises the important role of land management in responsible mining during the life of our operations.
Effective land management ensures we mitigate avoidable impacts to the land, remain compliant with our obligations and protect our stakeholder relationships. This includes considering land access and tenure when securing access to land, ensuring our operations are appropriately authorised and that the rights and interests of landholders, native title parties and other stakeholders are respected and maintained throughout the life of our operations.
We manage these risks through several mechanisms, including:
- our Risk Management System
- our Environmental Management System (EMS) to ensure a consistent approach to environmental management across all our business units and subsidiaries
- land management risk analysis and internal permitting tool, the Land Activity Permit (LAP), giving our teams the opportunity to assess risks prior to execution
- our Approval Management System which stores our land access and native title agreements to ensure effective management and obligation compliance.
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