Today we had a meeting at the mining company Gramalote. This is a joint venture between Anglo Gold Ashanti (South African owned) and B2Gold (Canadian owned). One of their mines is in San Roque, about two hours outside of Medellin. I visited this mining site in March and made a blog post about that visit ("Responsible Mining is possible"). Their corporate focus on safety and community building is wonderful to see. They don't just "talk the CSR talk", they "walk the walk".
From left to right the general manager, the social projects manager and the HR manager. Their Gramalote project has now about six years of experience and the initial results are promising for the new style mining corporations. They have cooperated with Juan Guillermo's SENA training center in Puerto Berrio (about an hour from San Roque further away from Medellin).
We discussed how our EFE program can learn some of the best practices form their social experiments. On September 11 Juan Guillermo and I will bring a few representatives to their mine in San Roque from the Canadian Embassy and CIDA/DFATD Ottawa.
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