The Global Reporting Initiative has taken another step towards a new set of social and environmental reporting guidelines for mining companies. The mining and metals sector supplement, whose public consultation closed on 29 April, contains 13 sustainability indicators. Major firms such as Alcoa, Anglo American, BHP Billiton and Rio Tinto, as well as campaigners and investors, have developed the guidelines.
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