Mine Site Report
MS.01 Local procurement
MS.02 Local employment
MS.03 Community grievance mechanism
MS.04 Workers grievance mechanism
MS.05 Water quality and quantity
MS.06 Biodiversity management
Source documents used in scoring
Mining companies are not the only actors to shape reality on the ground. Home country and producing country governments are among the powerful players to set the conditions within which companies operate. The table below provides a set of proxy indicators on the socio-economic, policy, governance and security environments in the home country of the company and the producing country of the mine site.
| Producing Country | |
|---|---|
| South Africa | |
| World Bank economy classification | Upper middle income (2017) |
| IHDI (Inequality-adjusted Human Development Index) | 102/151 (2015) |
| World Bank List of Fragile Situations | no (2018) |
| Global Peace Index | 123/163 (2017) |
| Global Hunger Index | 55/119 (2017) |
| GDP per capita ($) | 5,285 (2016) |
| GDP annual growth (%) | 0.28 (2016) |
| Tax revenue (% of GDP) | 27.27 (2015) |
| Mining sector (% of GDP) | 2.19 (2015) |
| Ores and Metals (% of export) | 23.58 (2016) |
| ILO Convention 169 (Indigenous and Tribal Peoples) | Not ratified |
| ILO Convention 176 (Safety and Health in Mines) | Ratified |
| EITI (Extractive Industry Transparency Initiative) | Not an EITI country (2017) |
| Voluntary Principles on Security and Human Rights | - |
| NRGI Resource Governance Index | 23/89 (2017) |
| World Bank WGI Control of Corruption | 84/209 (2016) |
| Corruption Perceptions Index | 64/176 (2016) |
| WEF Global Competitiveness Index | 61/137 (2017-2018) |
| Country Attractiveness Index | 32/125 (2016) |
| Tax Attractiveness Index | 51/100 (2017) |
| Financial Secrecy Index | 50/112 (2018) |
| Enforcing Contracts Index | 115/190 (2017) |
| Environmental Democracy Index | 04/70 (2015) |
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