JOHANNESBURG (miningweekly.com) – South Africa's platinum group metals (PGMs) mining and marketing company Valterra Platinum this week affirmed sustainability as being at the heart of the future of mining when it hosted its inaugural Sustainability Day to highlight the role responsible mining plays in driving competitiveness and long-term value creation.
The event followed the publication of Valterra Platinum’s first sustainability report in March and reinforces sustainability as a strategic imperative embedded across the business.
Sustainability is the practice of using resources responsibly so that human needs are met without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs, ensuring long-term viability for the planet and society.
Valterra Platinum supplies PGMs that underpin cleaner technologies. These cleaner technologies, it stated, specifically include:
hydrogen energy systems; and
