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New Afton Sustainability Report

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Abstract
The New Afton copper-gold project is located 350 km northeast of Vancouver and 10 km west of Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada. It is located in the semiarid south Thompson Valley. (InfoMine, 2014), as you can see in Figure 1, the image on the left shows how far is New Afton mine from Vancouver, BC, and the right image shows a satellite view from the space.

Figure 1: New Afton – Regional Location
(Source: www.mapsgoogle.com, 2014)

In order to have an idea of New Afton success, I discussed some relevant points of view of different authors, where we can realize by ourselves, how this company is doing in themes such as: Sustainability, Health & Safety, Environmental and Human Rights. I took a deep view in sustainability reports …show more content…

That is the reason why New Gold is committed to establishing relationships based on mutual benefit and active engagement with their host communities to contribute to healthy communities and sustainable development. Also New Gold is committed to excellence in corporate social responsibility. They consider their ability to make a lasting and positive contribution toward sustainable development a key driver to achieving a productive and profitable business. (New gold Sustainable Report (2013))
New Gold has the landmark Participation Agreement it has with the two First Nations bands in the region (Tk'emlups and …show more content…

In fact, close to 25% of the mine’s employees are from First Nations (Anonymous, 2012).
And they called this program Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). New Gold recognized that the money they invest in people, would make benefits for the company, especially because a happy worker can produce more than a worker who is upset and don’t like his or her work, and this is exactly how the both parts are benefited with this program, people learn and acquire skills, obtain qualified jobs, education for their children, health and a lot of things that would make the community a better

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