Bunker Hill Announces an Enhanced Digbee ESG Rating
Bunker Hill Mining Corp. (TSX-V:BNKR; OTCQB:BHLL) has received an enhanced ESG rating from Digbee, achieving an overall score of 'A' in its third annual assessment. This marks the project's upgrade from 'exploration' to 'development' phase. The company aims to revive a historic mine within an active EPA Superfund clean-up site, focusing on remediation, mineral extraction, and community support.
CEO Sam Ash emphasized the company's commitment to ESG excellence and continuous improvement. Bunker Hill's unique corporate governance system, modeled after Ford Motor Company's approach, ensures transparency and effective decision-making. The mine's restart is expected to generate employment opportunities and support local infrastructure and skills development.
Digbee's CEO, Jamie Strauss, commended Bunker Hill's commitment to ESG transparency and performance, noting steady improvement over the past three years. The company is well-positioned to develop a sustainable mine for the essential metals supply chain.
Bunker Hill Mining Corp. (TSX-V:BNKR; OTCQB:BHLL) ha ricevuto un migliorato rating ESG da parte di Digbee, raggiungendo un punteggio complessivo di 'A' nella sua terza valutazione annuale. Questo segna l'upgrade del progetto dalla fase di 'esplorazione' a quella di 'sviluppo'. L'azienda intende rilanciare una miniera storica all'interno di un sito di bonifica attivo sotto la supervisione dell'EPA, concentrandosi sulla bonifica, l'estrazione mineraria e il supporto alla comunità.
Il CEO Sam Ash ha sottolineato l'impegno dell'azienda nei confronti dell'eccellenza ESG e del miglioramento continuo. Il sistema di governance aziendale unico di Bunker Hill, modellato sull'approccio della Ford Motor Company, garantisce trasparenza e decisioni efficaci. La riapertura della miniera si prevede genererà opportunità di lavoro e supporterà lo sviluppo delle infrastrutture locali e delle competenze.
Jamie Strauss, CEO di Digbee, ha lodato l'impegno di Bunker Hill per la trasparenza e le prestazioni ESG, notando un costante miglioramento negli ultimi tre anni. L'azienda è ben posizionata per sviluppare una miniera sostenibile per la catena di fornitura di metalli essenziali.
Bunker Hill Mining Corp. (TSX-V:BNKR; OTCQB:BHLL) ha recibido una mejora en su calificación ESG de parte de Digbee, alcanzando una puntuación general de 'A' en su tercera evaluación anual. Esto marca la actualización del proyecto de la fase de 'exploración' a la fase de 'desarrollo'. La empresa tiene como objetivo reactivar una mina histórica dentro de un sitio de limpieza activo del EPA Superfund, centrándose en la remediación, la extracción de minerales y el apoyo a la comunidad.
El CEO Sam Ash enfatizó el compromiso de la empresa con la excelencia ESG y la mejora continua. El sistema de gobernanza corporativa único de Bunker Hill, modelado según el enfoque de Ford Motor Company, asegura transparencia y un proceso de toma de decisiones eficaz. Se espera que la reactivación de la mina genere oportunidades laborales y apoye el desarrollo de infraestructura y habilidades locales.
Jamie Strauss, CEO de Digbee, elogió el compromiso de Bunker Hill con la transparencia y el rendimiento ESG, señalando una mejora constante durante los últimos tres años. La empresa está bien posicionada para desarrollar una mina sostenible para la cadena de suministro de metales esenciales.
Bunker Hill Mining Corp. (TSX-V:BNKR; OTCQB:BHLL)는 Digbee로부터 개선된 ESG 등급을 받았으며, 이로써 세 번째 연간 평가에서 전체 점수 'A'를 달성했습니다. 이는 프로젝트가 '탐사' 단계에서 '개발' 단계로 업그레이드되었음을 의미합니다. 이 회사는 EPA 수퍼펀드 청소 부지 내의 역사적인 광산을 재활성화하고자 하며, 이를 위해 복원, 광물 채굴 및 지역 사회 지원에 집중하고 있습니다.
CEO 샘 애쉬는 ESG 우수성과 지속적인 개선에 대한 회사의 의지를 강조했습니다. Bunker Hill의 독특한 기업 거버넌스 시스템은 포드 자동차 회사의 접근 방식을 모델로 하여 투명성과 효과적인 의사 결정을 보장합니다. 광산 재개는 고용 기회를 창출하고 지역 인프라와 기술 개발을 지원할 것으로 예상됩니다.
Digbee의 CEO인 제이미 스트라우스는 Bunker Hill의 ESG 투명성과 성과에 대한 헌신을 칭찬하며, 지난 3년 동안 꾸준한 개선을 언급했습니다. 이 회사는 필수 금속 공급망을 위한 지속 가능한 광산 개발에 잘 위치해 있습니다.
Bunker Hill Mining Corp. (TSX-V:BNKR; OTCQB:BHLL) a reçu une évaluation ESG améliorée de Digbee, atteignant un score global de 'A' lors de sa troisième évaluation annuelle. Cela marque la transition du projet de la phase 'exploration' à celle de 'développement'. L'entreprise vise à relancer une mine historique située sur un site de nettoyage actif de l'EPA Superfund, en se concentrant sur la dépollution, l'extraction minérale et le soutien à la communauté.
Le PDG Sam Ash a souligné l'engagement de l'entreprise envers l'excellence en matière d'ESG et l'amélioration continue. Le système de gouvernance d'entreprise unique de Bunker Hill, inspiré de l'approche de Ford Motor Company, garantit transparence et prise de décision efficace. La réouverture de la mine devrait générer des opportunités d'emploi et soutenir le développement des infrastructures locales et des compétences.
Jamie Strauss, PDG de Digbee, a fait l'éloge de l'engagement de Bunker Hill envers la transparence et la performance en matière d'ESG, notant une amélioration constante au cours des trois dernières années. L'entreprise est bien positionnée pour développer une mine durable pour la chaîne d'approvisionnement en métaux essentiels.
Bunker Hill Mining Corp. (TSX-V:BNKR; OTCQB:BHLL) hat von Digbee eine verbesserte ESG-Bewertung erhalten und in seiner dritten jährlichen Bewertung eine Gesamtnote von 'A' erreicht. Dies markiert das Upgrade des Projekts von der 'Erkundungs'- zur 'Entwicklungs'-Phase. Das Unternehmen plant, eine historische Mine auf einem aktiven EPA Superfund-Reinigungsstandort zu reaktivieren, wobei der Schwerpunkt auf Sanierung, Mineralienförderung und Unterstützung der Gemeinschaft liegt.
CEO Sam Ash betonte das Engagement des Unternehmens für ESG-Exzellenz und kontinuierliche Verbesserung. Das einzigartige Unternehmensführungssystem von Bunker Hill, das sich am Modell der Ford Motor Company orientiert, gewährleistet Transparenz und effektive Entscheidungsfindung. Die Wiederinbetriebnahme der Mine wird voraussichtlich Arbeitsplätze schaffen und die lokale Infrastruktur sowie die Entwicklung von Fähigkeiten unterstützen.
Jamie Strauss, CEO von Digbee, lobte Bunker Hills Engagement für ESG-Transparenz und Leistung und hob die stetige Verbesserung in den letzten drei Jahren hervor. Das Unternehmen ist gut positioniert, um eine nachhaltige Mine für die Lieferkette essenzieller Metalle zu entwickeln.
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VANCOUVER, British Columbia, July 29, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Bunker Hill Mining Corp. (“Bunker Hill” or the “Company”) (TSX-V:BNKR; OTCQB:BHLL) is pleased to announce the publication of the Company’s third annual Environmental, Social and Governance (“ESG”) report from Digbee ESGTM (“Digbee”), a leading independent ESG assessment platform for the mining industry.
In Digbee’s latest assessment, Bunker Hill achieved an overall ESG score of “A” from Digbee’s independent panel of qualified mining ESG experts who reviewed the Company’s performance against rigorous and standardized scoring criteria. This submission marks the third submission for the Bunker Hill project since April 2021. This is the first time that the project has been upgraded to the ‘development’ phase from ‘exploration’, with additional information being submitted for consideration.
Sam Ash, Bunker Hill’s CEO, stated: “Excellence in ESG has been integral to the Company’s strategy from day one. We aim for continuous improvement as we revive a historic mine, facilitating the remediation of existing mining legacies while extracting valuable minerals, creating employment opportunities and supporting our local community. Our Bunker Hill Mine will be the first mining operation to restart in an active EPA Superfund clean-up site since 1969, which is a significant milestone for the US Mining Industry. The revitalized mine is expected to generate employment opportunities and support the local community, including infrastructure enhancement and skills development”.
Bunker Hill has a highly distinctive and robust corporate governance system, enabled by its weekly Business Plan Review (BPR) system: a disciplined, carefully structured, one-hour video conference attended by all Board Members, Executive Management and key officers and staff. Modelled primarily on the governance model built at the Ford Motor Company by its transformational CEO Alan Mullally, this unique ‘all-hands’ system ensures a level of transparency and situational awareness on risks and opportunities and an ability to better leverage the collective experience of all team and Board members in ways that enhance significantly the quality of decision-making at all levels.
Figure 1: Bunker Hill Mining Corp.’s Rating
Jamie Strauss, founder and CEO of Digbee, commented: “With institutional finance increasingly valuing sustainability, Bunker Hill’s commitment to transparency in ESG performance and disclosure is a credit to the Company and its core ethos. The Company, leveraging its three-year partnership with Digbee, has shown steady improvement over the past three years and is now well-positioned to develop a sustainable mine for the essential metals supply chain. Digbee has identified areas for further improvement which we understand the Company is keen to focus on.”
Details of the Company’s 2023 ESG Report are available on Bunker Hill’s and Digbee’s websites.
ABOUT BUNKER HILL MINING CORP.
Under Idaho-based leadership, Bunker Hill intends to restart and develop the Bunker Hill Mine sustainably as the first step in consolidating and optimizing a number of mining assets into a high-value portfolio of operations centered initially in North America. Information about the Company is available on its website, www.bunkerhillmining.com, or within the SEDAR+ and EDGAR databases.
On behalf of Bunker Hill Mining Corp.
Sam Ash
President and Chief Executive Officer
For additional information, please contact:
Brenda Dayton
Vice President, Investor Relations
T: 604.417.7952
E: brenda.dayton@bunkerhillmining.com
Cautionary Statements
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Certain statements in this news release are forward-looking and involve a number of risks and uncertainties. Such forward-looking statements are within the meaning of that term in Section 27A of the U.S. Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the U.S. Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, as well as within the meaning of the phrase ‘forward-looking information’ in the Canadian Securities Administrators’ National Instrument 51-102 – Continuous Disclosure Obligations (collectively, “forward-looking statements”). Forward-looking statements are not comprised of historical facts. Forward-looking statements include estimates and statements that describe the Company’s future plans, objectives or goals, including words to the effect that the Company or management expects a stated condition or result to occur. Forward-looking statements may be identified by such terms as “believes”, “anticipates”, “expects”, “estimates”, “may”, “could”, “would”, “will”, “plan” or variations of such words and phrases.
Forward-looking statements in this news release include, but are not limited to, statements regarding the Company’s objectives, goals or future plans, including the restart and development of the Bunker Hill Mine, and the achievement of future short-term, medium-term and long-term operational strategies.
Factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from such forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to, those risks and uncertainties identified in public filings made by Bunker Hill with the SEC and with applicable Canadian securities regulatory authorities, and the following: the Company’s inability to raise additional capital for project activities, including through equity financings, concentrate offtake financings or otherwise; the fluctuating price of commodities; capital market conditions; restrictions on labor and its effects on international travel and supply chains; failure to identify mineral resources; failure to convert estimated mineral resources to reserves; the preliminary nature of metallurgical test results; the Company’s ability to restart and develop the Bunker Hill Mine and the risks of not basing a production decision on a feasibility study of mineral reserves demonstrating economic and technical viability, resulting in increased uncertainty due to multiple technical and economic risks of failure which are associated with this production decision including, among others, areas that are analyzed in more detail in a feasibility study, such as applying economic analysis to resources and reserves, more detailed metallurgy and a number of specialized studies in areas such as mining and recovery methods, market analysis, and environmental and community impacts and, as a result, there may be an increased uncertainty of achieving any particular level of recovery of minerals or the cost of such recovery, including increased risks associated with developing a commercially mineable deposit, with no guarantee that production will begin as anticipated or at all or that anticipated production costs will be achieved; failure to commence production would have a material adverse impact on the Company's ability to generate revenue and cash flow to fund operations; failure to achieve the anticipated production costs would have a material adverse impact on the Company's cash flow and future profitability; delays in obtaining or failures to obtain required governmental, environmental or other project approvals; political risks; changes in equity markets; uncertainties relating to the availability and costs of financing needed in the future; the inability of the Company to budget and manage its liquidity in light of the failure to obtain additional financing, including the ability of the Company to complete the payments pursuant to the terms of the agreement to acquire the Bunker Hill Mine complex; inflation; changes in exchange rates; fluctuations in commodity prices; delays in the development of projects; and capital, operating and reclamation costs varying significantly from estimates and the other risks involved in the mineral exploration and development industry. Although the Company believes that the assumptions and factors used in preparing the forward-looking statements in this news release are reasonable, undue reliance should not be placed on such statements or information, which only applies as of the date of this news release, and no assurance can be given that such events will occur in the disclosed time frames or at all, including as to whether or when the Company will achieve its project finance initiatives, or as to the actual size or terms of those financing initiatives. The Company disclaims any intention or obligation to update or revise any forward-looking information, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, other than as required by law. No stock exchange, securities commission or other regulatory authority has approved or disapproved the information contained herein.
Readers are cautioned that the foregoing risks and uncertainties are not exhaustive. Additional information on these and other risk factors that could affect the Company’s operations or financial results are included in the Company’s annual information form or annual report and may be accessed through the SEDAR+ website (www.sedarplus.ca) or through EDGAR on the SEC website (www.sec.gov), respectively.
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