With a growing range of operational risks and pressures - from climate change vulnerability to cost inflation - South African mining companies are taking an increasingly integrated approach to sustainability. With its multidisciplinary professional teams, global centres of excellence in niche areas and extensive network of consultants, consulting engineers and scientists SRK Consulting is well-positioned to help miners achieve their sustainability targets.
“Combining our field experience with the power of digital technologies enables us to leverage value from Big Data in various applications” states SRK Consulting South Africa MD Andrew van Zyl.
The local mining sector is a significant energy consumer, which has implications for the sector’s carbon footprint, given the prominence of coal-fired power generation
in the country.
He adds that efforts to increase the share of renewable energy used by local mining will free up current generation capacity and reduce load-shedding for citizens and other smaller businesses, he stresses.
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