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Investigating Standards-based Solutions for Mine Closure in Canada

March 31, 2022

SOOP Strategies
ESG, Indigenous Relations

SOOP Strategies recently served as Advisor to the development of recent CSA report, "Socio-Economic Transition for Mine Closure in Canada—Investigating Standards-based Solutions", which seeks to advance two objectives:
- Analyze the socio-economic transition landscape of mine closure; and
- Recommend on the need for a standard or guideline to help mining companies better plan for the socio-economic transition of a closed mine site.
Investigating Standards-based Solutions for Mine Closure in Canada
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