According to PwC’s Mine 2020 report, the global Top 40 mining companies are so far weathering the COVID-19 crisis but need to take advantage of relative stability to adopt strategies to mitigate against further economic and social risks.
A report released last year by Deloitte – Value Beyond Compliance in Australia: Creating Shared Value for Mines and Their Communities – tracks important trends in mining. While the 2020 version of this report will focus heavily on COVID-19, it is an interesting exercise to see where we were before the pandemic hit.
At this writing, coronavirus/COVID-19 has killed more than 120,000 people around the world and sickened almost 2 million others. If there is any good news, the pandemic has waned in China, where it all started. The tally there is more than 82,000 cases with more than 3,300 deaths.
For many Australians, Indonesians and Filippinos, the beginning of 2020 brought with it the heartbreak and horror of extreme weather conditions: bushfires, floods and volcanic eruptions.