Absolute results remain low overall and MMG’s results are largely dependent on the formal commitments it has made, including to prevent bribery and corruption, to follow a lifecycle approach, and to ensure safe and healthy working conditions.

In the company-wide assessment, MMG shows one of the relatively stronger results on the issue of tracking and acting to improve the quality of its relationships with affected communities as a result of its recent review of its grievance mechanisms. The company also shows one of the stronger systems to ensure its operations identify, avoid, and mitigate the potential impacts of involuntary displacement of project-affected people.

MMG shows evidence of improvement since the RMI Report 2020, including a recent review of the company’s stakeholder grievance mechanism that paid specific attention to including children and persons with disabilities.

In the company-wide assessment, MMG’s results are above the overall average in four thematic areas, but below average in both Business Conduct and Working Conditions. MMG’s overall results are limited by a lack of evidence on several issues. For example, the company shows no evidence of efforts to publicly disclose the legal titles that grant it the rights to extract mineral resources on its mine sites. or to protect women workers from harassment and violence. Additionally, the company’s environmental policy remains relatively weak, with no integration of the mitigation hierarchy approach to prioritise the prevention and avoidance of impacts above measures to minimise, restore or offset the residual impacts.

MMG ranks 9th among the 40 companies on its mine-site-level results, though with an average score of only 13% in the mine-site assessment. None of the four MMG mine sites included in the mine-site assessment show any relevant evidence on three of the issues covered: safety of workers, living wage, and worker grievances.