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SGS: Sustainability Initiatives in the African Mining Service Industry Russ Calow and Jean Richardson

SGS Minerals Services

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Importance of Sustainable Mining and Exploration to Africa

n  W. Africa $B10.3 USD (11 Countries) $M743 USD 7.2%

n  S. Africa $B35.7 USD (10 Countries) $M593 USD 1.7%

SNL MEG (2010) , International Council on Mining & Metals (2010)

National GDP arising from Mining Production

Exploration budget

Exploration is a key industry in Africa today and mining is and will continue to be a significant driver of GDP. The implications of this are far reaching and all stakeholders must ensure sustainability. SGS is committed to ensuring our operations in Africa are also sustainable.

n  Canada $T1.68 USD (1 Country) $M2,215 USD 0.13%

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SGS’ Sustainability Position n  Trust lies at the heart of SGS’s

business proposition. … Our success and value to society depends on us exercising foresight, judgement, and responsiveness to the needs of all our stakeholders

Chris Kirk, CEO, SGS

n  Four pillars of sustainability •  Professional Excellence •  People •  Environmental •  Community

n  Annual Sustainability Reports are publically released to shareholders on the SGS website

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Sustaining our Business in Africa

n  The four pillars of sustainability guide all that we do

n  At mines and industrial sites, we work with our clients to apply these principles in their operations

n  We develop new initiatives that address weaknesses our people identify in our businesses, homes and communities

XRF Iron Ore Installation Monrovia, Liberia

Drinking Water Sampling Obuasi, Ghana

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First Pillar: Professional Excellence

n  Excellence in capital facilities

•  SGS is building world class laboratories throughout Africa

•  We use state-of-the-art building engineering design to ensure these facilities are as safe and environmentally friendly as possible

•  SGS has been responding to our client’s needs by providing new testing capacity where it is needed most

Environmental Preparation Laboratory, Accra, Ghana

New Geochem Laboratory in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso

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First Pillar: Professional Excellence n  SGS is installing advanced testing

technology throughout Africa •  ICP-OES & ICP-MS analysis in Ghana,

Tanzania, DRC, Kenya & S. Africa •  XRF in Liberia, the first commercial iron

testing facility in Western Africa •  QEM-SCAN & XRD in South Africa, the

world`s largest advanced mineralogy facility

n  We are leveraging our African technical base and supplier relationships to improve the quality of our group globally •  Partnership with African Mineral Standards

in JHB to create an extensive library of purpose-built certified reference materials

•  Progressive program to ensure industry standard ISO/IEC 17025 accreditation for our commercial laboratories QEM SCAN Installation,

Johannesburg, South Africa

ICP-OES Installation Mwanza, Tanzania

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First Pillar: Professional Excellence n  SGS is moving our services right to

our client’s locations – anywhere they are located and need services •  Built >18,000 m2 of new Geochem

laboratory space in 8 countries in the last 12 months

•  Doubled our geochemical capacity

•  Deployed 12 mobile sample prep units right to project sites across Africa

•  Creating a pan-African network of environmental testing capacity, laboratory and field based Baseline Monitoring Installation

Xstrata ‘s Askaf Project , Mauritania

Mobile Sample Preparation Unit Newmont’s Ahafo South Project , Ghana

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Second Pillar: People n  SGS continues to develop and prepare

our African staff for advanced assignments in Africa and globally

•  We firmly believe that it must be Africans managing Africa – in SGS expats represent only 0.4% of the Minerals staff complement (12 out 2880) and this percentage continues to decrease every year

•  SGS opened a Minerals Training Academy in Ghana in 2012

–  providing the next generation of skilled managers and supervisors

–  first cohort now in operations and the next 16 are entering classroom phase Classroom Instruction

Accra, Ghana

Hands-on Laboratory Training Tarkwa, Ghana

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Third Pillar: Protecting the Environment

n  Laboratories •  We design and operate our

laboratories to minimize their environmental impact

n  Environmental Services •  Creating a pan-African network of

proximity environmental laboratories to better service industrial and regulatory clients

•  Creating three centres of environmental testing excellence

–  Tema, Ghana –  Nairobi, Kenya –  Randburg, South Africa

Laboratory Dust Extraction Systems Randgold’s Tongon Mine, Cote

D’Ivoire

New Environmental Laboratory Pointe Noire, Rep of Congo

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Fourth Pillar: Community

n  Partnering with our communities to build capacity

n  Heath initiatives

n  Business development program for long term growth Drakenstein Child Lung Health Study Red

Cross Project with SGS in S. Africa

SGS Management & Leadership Course Training Small, Micro and Medium Business Leaders.

Local Community Christmas Parties Funded and Promoted by SGS

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SGS: Sustainability in Action

SGS Site Supervisor African Minerals Pepal Port Operation, Sierra Leone