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Vaughn Duke Pr.Eng, PMP, BSc Mining Engineering (Hons), MBA, has worked in the minerals industry since 1986.
He worked mostly on gold mines in Zimbabwe and South Africa prior to establishing Sound Mining in 2004 and where he and his team have since provided a range of consulting services covering numerous commodities.
Vaughn has been associated with the Southern African Institution of Mining and Metallurgy since his university days. He is now a Fellow of the SAIMM and has contributed both on Council and to numerous committees and working groups over the years, which have included SAMREC and SAMVAL.
He is also a registered member of the Engineering Council of South Africa (ECSA), The Project Management Institute (PMI), the Association of Mine Managers of South Africa (AMMSA), and the Institute of Directors (IOD).
The Working Group has made considerable progress during 2022 and early 2023, having completed the following workstreams:
- Categorisation of the key findings from the ESG Inquisition and ESG Survey into distinct outcomes.
- Compilation of minimum ESG disclosure requirements.
- Adoption of the ESG definitions formulated by CRIRSCO as placeholders in the interim. There is still considerable debate around an appropriate definition for Governance, varying from those aspects that directly affect mineral resources and reserves governance to a much broader corporate perspective.
- Compilation of stakeholder expectations for ESG reporting.
- Compilation of a proposed table of contents for the revision of the SAMESG Guideline.
- Compilation of a draft SAMREC ESG document, a potential new section for the SAMREC Code, framing ESG integration of minimum ESG disclosure requirements in mineral reporting and providing context, perspective and guidance in terms of global trends, stakeholder expectations and end users of the mineral reporting. The draft is extensive and deliberately comprehensive to avoid losing valuable points at this stage.
Work is now focused on the following activities:
- Migrate key aspects from the SAMREC ESG draft into the SAMREC Code (as recommended changes)
- Incorporate the key ESG aspects into the SAMREC Table 1 (as recommended changes).
- Compile chapters of the SAMESG Guideline according to the new Table of Contents, and incorporate key aspects from the stakeholder mapping, ESG Inquisition, minimum ESG disclosures and the SAMREC ESG draft.
- Compile recommended ESG aspects for inclusion in the SAMVAL Code, in the same style as the SAMREC ESG draft. Follow the same review process to determine what should belong in the Code and what should appear to the Guideline.
The date of 11 July 2023 in the GSSA calendar has been earmarked for an ESG event. The Working Group expects this will take the form of progress made, appraise the broader mining and regulatory community of its recommendations, and link these to international developments.
On the 15th and 22nd March 2023, the GSSA held the Introduction to SAMCODES and JSE Listing Rules. It was initially proposed as an in-contact event to be held at the Mandela Mining Precinct. However, the number of registrations received for the contact event did not make this a viable proposition and the event was eventually held online only with 28 virtual delegates. Delegates cane from all over South Africa and even from Botswana and Namibia.
The event covered the basics of the various codes (SAMREC, SAMVAL, SAMOG and the SAMESG Guideline) as well as an introduction to the JSE listing rules. It also defined the requirements for a Competent Person and reviewed the fundamentals of compiling a Competent Persons Report as well as the common mistakes identified by the JSE Readers Panel. It serves as a basis on which to build the Advanced Course to be held later in the year.