Hellas Gold implements the ISO 14001:2015 certified Environmental Management System with a focus on reducing environmental impacts, protecting biodiversity, and responsibly managing natural resources.
Guided by these standards, our strategy encompasses six actions, based on best environmental management practices:
Through our network of more than 500 stations, we monitor the qualitative and quantitative performance of our operations in real time, assessing 13 environmental parameters linked to, or potentially impacted by, our mining operations. The collected data are available to the public for free via an open access online platform.
Find out more about the Environmental Monitoring ProgramIn general, water management practices at mines help use water resources effectively, reduce losses and ensure healthy environments and people. Effective water management helps control water use and improve recycling and reuse.
Dry-stack tailings management and storage technology removes most of the water from tailings, with positive impacts for the environment and our people.
Parallel and progressive rehabilitation and reclamation of the natural environment is essential to the development of our projects. As soon as mining operations are closing, reclamation and rehabilitation are undertaken to restore disturbed land. We have also taken action to restore land impacted by historic mining of former operators on our sites.
Parallel RehabilitationWe systematically monitor the area’s biodiversity with help from experts, and we implement a series of actions for the conservation of biodiversity with a focus on the management of endemic and non-endemic flora and fauna.
Our parent company, Eldorado Gold, has set an initial target to mitigate 30% of the company’s 2020 GHG emissions by 2030.
