Written by Paul Harris and published in The Mining Journal on March 23, 2021
Posterity could view the permitting of Perpetua Resources’ Stibnite gold-antimony project in central Idaho, USA, as heralding a new generation of mining company:
One that predicates its desire to dig holes in the ground on the greater environmental good that a project facilitates, a total value approach which benefits from all minerals present, with ESG financing to make it happen, and one with a significant number of women in senior management roles. These individual elements may not be new or unique in mining companies, but together they signal a changing of the guard.