Xstrata Copper North Queensland.pdf - Mount Isa Mines

Glossary
ALABC Australia-Latin America
Business Council.
AQC Air Quality Control centre.
The centre monitors sulphur dioxide
emissions and weather conditions
and directs the operations of the
Mount Isa Mines smelters to control
sulphur dioxide concentrations within
license limits.
ARG Australian Railroad Group.
ATSI Aboriginal and Torres
Strait Islander.
AusIMM Australian Mining Institute of
Mining and Metallurgy.
AWAs Australian Workplace Agreements.
Biodiversity An abbreviation of
‘biological diversity’ that means the
variability among living organisms from
all sources, including land based and
aquatic ecosystems of which they are
a part. These include diversity within
species, and of ecosystems.
Business Principles Xstrata’s Statement
of Business Principles sets out the
ethical framework for the way we work
globally. The statement sets out specific
aspirations and commitments that
apply to the company’s relations with
its customers, employees, stakeholders,
partners, suppliers and in the
communities where it operates.
Carbon intensity Calculated as CO 2 -e
tonnes per tonne of product.
CAS Community Attitudes Survey.
Closure Plan A formal document
detailing a costed conceptual outline of
how the operation will be completed,
taking into account the options available
to deal with prevailing social and
environmental issues.
CMLR Centre for Mined
Land Rehabilitation.
CO 2 -e Carbon dioxide equivalent is a
standard metric by which greenhouse
gases other than carbon dioxide are
converted to CO 2 equivalence to
facilitate comparisons and quantification.
Commodity business Xstrata’s
activities are structured into global
commodity businesses organised along
commodity lines.
Community grievances Any issue
raised by a member of the community
relating to the operation in question,
whether resolved or not. This can relate
to an enquiry or other incident or noncompliance.
CPRS Carbon pollution
reduction scheme.
CRL Copper Refinery Limited.
CSI Corporate Social Involvement.
Cu copper.
DAG Death Adder Gully.
DEEWR Federal Government
Department of Education, Employment
and Workplace Relations.
DERM Queensland Department of
Environment and Resource Management.
DISR – Disabling Injury Severity
Rate = (LTI days lost + RWI days lost)
x 1,000,000/hours worked in the
reporting period.
DMP Drought Management Plan.
DPM – Diesel Particulate Matter
– consisting of small particles that
aggregate to form chains to make
larger particles which are usually less
than one micron.
EBAs Enterprise Bargaining Agreements.
EEO Energy Efficiency Opportunity.
EGRU Economic Geology Research Unit.
EHM Ernest Henry Mining.
EIP Environmental Improvement Plan.
EIS Environmental Impact Statement.
EITE Emissions Intensive Trade Exposed.
EITI Extractive Industries Transparency
Initiative aims to increase transparency in
transactions between governments and
companies within extractive industries.
EMESRT Earth Moving Equipment Safety
Round Table.
EMP Environmental
Management Program.
EMS Environmental
Management System(s).
ERT Emergency Response Team.
ESIA Environmental and Social
Impact Assessment.
ESL English as a second language.
ETS Emissions trading scheme.
Fatality A death resulting from an
occupational injury or disease/illness and
identified within the reporting period.
FIFO Fly-in/fly-out (type of employee/
contractor).
Feed Ore entering the beginning of a
unit process.
Fresh water Untreated water extracted
from ground water, dams or rivers.
GET Ground Engaging Tools.
GFC Global Financial Crisis.
GFM George Fisher Mine.
GHG – Greenhouse gas Any gas
that absorbs infra-red radiation in the
atmosphere, causing the warming of the
earth’s atmosphere.
GJ Gigajoules (1 GJ =
1,000,000,000 joules).
Global Compact The UN Global
Compact is a voluntary corporate
responsibility initiative to advance ten
universal principles in the areas of
human rights, labour, the environment
and anti-corruption.
GRI – Global Reporting Initiative
a multi-stakeholder, international
process whose mission is to develop
and disseminate globally applicable
Sustainability Reporting Guidelines to
assist corporations in reporting on the
economic, environmental, and social
performance of their operations.
H1N1 Influenza A virus.
ha Hectares (1 ha = 10,000
square metres).
Hours worked Total number of hours
worked by employees in the reporting
period, including overtime and training,
excluding leave, sickness and other
absences, including the total number of
contractor hours worked on site during
the year.
HPRI High Potential Risk Incident.
IBA Indigenous Business Australia.
ICA International Copper Association.
IEP Indigenous Employment Program.
ICMM International Council on Mining
and Metals.
ISO International
Standardisation Organisation.
ISO 14001 The International
Standardisation Organisation’s standard
for environmental management systems.
ITEAs Individual Transitional
Employment Agreements.
IUCN International Union for
Conservation of Nature.
JRC Job Role Criteria.
JSA Job Safety Analysis.
Kg Kilogram (1 kg = 1,000 grams).
kL Kilolitre (1 kL = 1,000 litres).
Km Kilometre (1 km = 1,000 metres).
kW Kilowatt (1 kilowatt =
100,000 watts).
Land disturbed Land disturbed by
operational activities.
Land rehabilitated Land disturbed by
operational activities and then reshaped
and revegetated.
LDP Leadership Development Program.
Local supplier – a supplier from the
nearest regional centre with proximity to
our mining operations.
LPG Liquid petroleum gas.
LPS Lead Pathways Study.
LSI Life Styles Inventory.
LTI – Lost Time Injury An occupational
injury or disease that results in days
away from work on any rostered shift
subsequent to that on which the injury
occurred. A fatality is also recorded as
an LTI.
LTIFR – Lost Time Injury Frequency
Rate Lost time injury frequency rate =
LTI x 1,000,000/hours worked in the
reporting period.
M3 Cubic metres.
Materiality Disclosing all information of
significant concern to stakeholders for
assessing our economic, environmental,
and social performance.
MCA Minerals Council of Australia.
MICC Mount Isa Chamber of Commerce.
MICO Mount Isa copper operations,
consisting of the Enterprise and X41
underground copper mines and the
copper concentrator.
MISC Mining Industry Skills Centre.
MISCAT Mount Isa Safe Community
Action Team.
MITA Mount Isa Tourism Association.
MITEZ Mount Isa to Townsville
Economic Zone.
ML Megalitre (1 megalitre = 1,000,000
litres or 1,000 kilolitres).
ML8058 the Xstrata Mount Isa Mines
mining lease.
Mount Isa Mines Limited the copper
and zinc-lead business operating
on ML8058.
MRRT Minerals Resource Rent Tax.
MTI Medical Treatment Injuries – an
occupational injury/illness which is not
classified as an LTI or RWI, but which
results in loss of consciousness or
medical treatment after first aid.
MW Megawatt, a unit for measuring
electric power, which has the value of
1,000,000 watts or 1,000 kilowatts.
MWh Megawatt hours.
μg/dl Micrograms per decilitre.
μg/m2/day Micrograms per square
metre per day.
NGERS National Greenhouse and Energy
Reporting System.
NGOs Non-governmental organisations.
NICP National Indigenous
Cadetship Program.
NISC National Industry Skills Centre.
NNTT National Native Title Tribunal.
NOHSC National Occupational Health
and Safety Commission.
NOx Oxides of nitrogen (nitric oxide and
nitrogen dioxide).
NPI National Pollutant Inventory.
Australia’s national public database of
pollutant emissions.
NWQIRII North West Queensland
Indigenous Resource Industry Initiative.
NWQMP North West Queensland
Minerals Province.
Occupational illness An occupational
illness is registered when it is confirmed
as a work-related compensable case by a
medical practitioner/physician.
OEMs Original
Equipment Manufacturers.
Ore A mineral-bearing rock from which
metal can be extracted.
Oz Ounces.
Particulate emissions Controlled
discharges from stacks containing
microscopic solids in the form of dust
or smoke.
PASS Positive Attitude Safety System.
PER Review Performance and career
development review.
PJ Petajoules (1 PJ =
1,000,000,000,000,000 joules).
PM10 Particulate matter less than 10
microns in size.
PPE Personal protective equipment.
QMEA Queensland Minerals and
Energy Academy.
QML Queensland Medical Laboratory.
QRC Queensland Resources Council.
Recycled water Recycled/re-used water
is water that has been used at least
once in a process within the operation
or at another operation within the
organisation; and that would otherwise
be part of a waste stream; and if not
re-used, would require the input of
raw water.
Red List IUCN Red List of
Threatened Species.
Rehabilitation In this report,
rehabilitation is defined as disturbed
areas that have been prepared for
rehabilitation and seeded.
RFDS Royal Flying Doctor Service.
RSPT Resources Super Profit Tax.
RWIs Restricted Work Injuries.
SD Sustainable Development.
SD Standards A set of 17 Standards
which set out corporate performance
expectations for each operation and
against which sites and commodity
businesses are independently
audited through the Xstrata SD
Assurance Program.
SO 2 Sulphur dioxide.
STEPers Structured Training and
Employment Projects – Employment
Related Services.
Stormwater Rainfall that does not
infiltrate into the soil but runs overland
into creeks, catchment areas or manmade
water storage facilities, such as
dams (i.e. unplanned discharge of water).
SWO Safe Work Observations.
Tailings and tailings dams The fine
fraction of waste rock remaining after
the mining and on-site processing of
mineral resources. Tailings are piped into
engineered impoundments known as
tailings dams.
t tonnes.
TARP Trigger Action Response Plan.
TEL Townsville Enterprise Limited.
TMS Training Management System.
TOT Townsville Ocean Terminal.
Townsville operations – Townsville
copper refinery and port operations.
TPUG Townsville Port Users Group.
TRIFR – Total Recordable Injury
Frequency Rate = (LTI + RWI + MTI) x
1,000,000/hours worked.
TWL Thermal work limit.
UN United Nations.
Wastewater discharged Total volume
of effluent discharged to: surface water
for irrigation; third parties for treatment;
and rivers or oceans.
WBV Whole Body Vibration.
WHO World Health Organisation.
XCPPNQ Xstrata Community Partnership
Program North Queensland.
Xplc Xstrata plc.
XPS Xstrata Power Station.
Xstrata Mount Isa Mines Xstrata
Copper and Xstrata Zinc operations
on ML8058.
XT Xstrata Technology.