Conference Proceedings - World Mining Congress 2026

2598 REFERENCES 1. Sigurdson, G. (2021). Dispatch 1: The Case for ESG+I. Drilling Up series. glennsigurdson.com/dispatches. The Brundtland passage is drawn from this dispatch, which develops the argument that the heartbeat of sustainability is human behaviour and that Brundtland’s original framing spoke to questions of conduct and culture. 2. Gerald W. Cormick’s article, ‘Strategic Issues in Structuring Multi-Party Public Policy Negotiations’ (Negotiation Journal, 1989), and related environmental mediation practice formed part of the practical background that informed the Round Tables process. The point is not attribution to individual practitioners, but the grounding of the Guiding Principles in an established body of multiparty public dispute experience. 3. The definition of consensus and the full text of the ten Guiding Principles, in English and Spanish, are set out in the Appendix to this paper, with a note on sources. 4. Sigurdson, G. (2024). Dispatch 3: The CEO’s Dilemma — The Cracks Inside Are On The Move. Drilling Up series. glennsigurdson.com/dispatches. The Granger Mine is a fictional composite grounded in real events, first introduced in Dispatch 3 and developed further in Dispatch 4: The SEO Starts Digging. 5. Kemp, D., & Hopkins, A. (2020). Corporate dysfunction on Indigenous affairs: Why heads rolled at Rio Tinto. The Conversation. Kemp and Hopkins identify Rio Tinto’s siloed organizational structure as the root cause of the Juukan Gorge disaster — not malice or a single bad decision, but a segmented structure that left the corporation vulnerable to any one product division making decisions with consequences that threatened the social license of the whole. See also: Sigurdson, G. (2024). Dispatch 2: The Trojan Horse inside ESG — The Cracks Hidden Within the Organization. Drilling Up series. glennsigurdson.com/dispatches. 6. Arbeález-Ruiz, D. (2015). Dialogue, conflict and regulatory processes in environmental impact studies for mining projects. Centre for Social Responsibility in Mining, Sustainable Minerals Institute, University of Queensland. — Arbeález-Ruiz, D. (2015). Dialogue, conflict and regulatory processes in environmental impact studies for mining projects. Centre for Social Responsibility in Mining, Sustainable Minerals Institute, University of Queensland. Cormick, G. W. (1989). Strategic issues in structuring multi-party public policy negotiations. Negotiation Journal, 5(2), 125–132. Cormick, G., Dale, N., Emond, P., Sigurdson, G., & Stuart, B. (1996). Building consensus for a sustainable future: Turning principles into practice. Ottawa: National Round Table on the Environment and the Economy. Danielson, L. (Ed.). (2002). Breaking new ground: Mining, minerals and sustainable development. Earthscan. Grupo de Diálogo, Minería y Desarrollo Sostenible. (2026). Website description of GDMDS as a multi-actor dialogue collective promoting intercultural dialogue spaces and agendas. Kemp, D., & Hopkins, A. (2020). Corporate dysfunction on Indigenous affairs: Why heads rolled at Rio Tinto. The Conversation.

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