INTERVIEW: ‘Rehabilitation,’ biodiversity restoration pose cost challenges for miners: Thiess CEO

Growing emphasis on the “rehabilitation” of shuttered mine sites, including the restoration of biodiversity, over the past five years is starting to weigh down miners’ balance sheets so much that governments increasingly need to play a supportive role, including with the purchase of closure bonds, a leading mining contractor told S&P Global Commodity Insights. Sites must be brought back insofar…