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Towards Sustainable 
Mining Principles,
Protocols & Frameworks
The Towards Sustainable Mining (TSM) initiative  
allows mining companies to turn high-level environmental  
and social commitments into action on the ground. 
At the same time, it provides communities 
with valuable information on how operations 
are faring in important areas such as 
community outreach, tailings management 
and biodiversity.
The TSM Guiding Principles are backed by 
a suite of protocols that mining companies 
measure and publicly report their 
performance against in the annual TSM 
Progress Reports.
Each protocol is made up of a set of indicators 
that are designed to measure the quality 
and comprehensiveness of facility-level 
management systems and are intended to 
provide the public with an overview of the 
industry’s performance in key environmental 
and social areas.
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