Planning
Indicators and targets
Performance indicators and associated targets are an integral component of any management system to:
- Raise the profile across businesses in areas requiring improved performance.
- Understand the impacts of activities on the environment and drive improvement in performance.
- Communicate commitments, and performance against those commitments, to both internal and external audiences.
Group wide targets were set in 2003. These included short term, annual targets and longer term targets (for the period from 2004 to 2008). Performance against targets can be found under targets.
Research and development
Research and development (R&D) are an important part of management systems as they allow understanding of the effects of activities to identify ways to minimise, mitigate and remediate them. R&D is carried out at both the operational and corporate levels.
Total spending on R&D in 2005 was US$8.2 million. Ten operations contributed 88 per cent of the expenditure.
- Ranger spent US$3 million on a waste programme.
- Argyle Diamonds Perth Facilities spent US$1 million on a R&D project for decontamination of an old laboratory site acquired.
- Havre St. Pierre & Lac Tio spent US$0.9 million on a water and effluents R&D project
- The IOC Carol project spent US$0.4 million on a tailings management R&D project to investigate flocculation and effluent treatment.
- Sorel spent US$0.2 million on research and investigation for a water management strategy.
After R&D programmes related to waste, the largest areas of R&D in 2005, in terms of expenditure, were water and effluents, and acid rock drainage.
Expenditure on types of R&D programmes in 2005
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