In today’s episode of the CEEC Thought Leader Series, we bring you an interview with Alison Keogh, CEEC’s CEO and Dean Gehring, Executive Vice President of Newmont.
Dean Gehring is Executive Vice President of Newmont. Newmont teams were CEEC Medal winners in 2017 & 2020. Dean discusses their work, Newmont's ESG targets, and champions the value of collaborating across industry, especially on shared industry challenges such as safety, energy and water improvement. He talks about how Newmont drives best practice, and its improvement and innovation approach.
Dean also talks about the value of sponsoring CEEC’s not for profit work and collaborative projects such as Energy and Water Curves, which also help sites benchmark and improve. He shares why he believes more open knowledge sharing on shared industry challenges is so important. He touches on technologies and embedding best practices and improvements across mine sites worldwide, to help reduce mining’s footprint, and why accelerating innovative eco efficient comminution and processing are key.
- Newmont & Metso Outotec 2020 CEEC medal winners for operations
Why sharing best practice is so importantWhat winning the CEEC medal meansCreating a culture of collaborationAcknowledgement of medal winners Peter Lind, Kevin Murray (Newmont) Alan Boylston and Isaias Arce (Metso Outotec)The value of partnershipEvaluating alternative comminution circuits with business justificationsEnergy and water consumptionA focus on innovationThe obligation to set standards and improve the industryTraining and mentoring through the Metcellerate programReducing the overall footprintThe importance of collaboration and partnership sin leading changeWillingness versus risk of investing in step-change technologiesThe installation of HPGR’s at Lone Tree Mine NevadaWhy collaboration is keyEnergy climate targets to reduce greenhouse gas by 30% by 2030 and reach net zero emissions by 2050The Borden mine in Canada as a showcase and test bed for improved energy efficiencySolving for productivity efficiency and ESG performancePathways to the 2030 targetsImproving success across multiple sitesRapid replication of business operating practicesThe role of digitisationWater and industry collaboration supporting social license to operateDeveloping common intensity measurementsFuture industry challengesThe things that are too important not to collaborate onCEEC’s energy and water curves initiativesThe business case for changeWhat’s key to leading change for successWhat it takes to envision a different futureWhat needs to happen to share best practiceMinimising the impact on environment while maximising value to society